Free teacher edition · 15-page PDF
Three lessons that span the Power and Conflict cluster.
Ozymandias, London, and Storm on the Island — chosen because together they cover the cluster's full range: monumental authority, embedded system, non-human force. Each lesson ships with a do-now, a modelled analysis, an independent task, a printable handout, and an exit ticket.
The three anchor poems
One poem per lesson. Three readings of what power even is.
1818
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Public domain — linked to Poetry Foundation in the PDF
1794
London
William Blake
Public domain — linked to Poetry Foundation in the PDF
1966
Storm on the Island
Seamus Heaney
In copyright — distribute via your AQA anthology
What's inside
Fifteen pages of teaching-grade material.
Three lesson plans
One per anchor poem. Each lesson runs 50-60 minutes and follows the same three-phase shape — do-now, modelled analysis, independent task — with the AQA Assessment Objective made explicit for each phase.
Printable student handouts
One handout per poem. Five annotation prompts plus an exit ticket with three sentence-starters. Designed to be photocopied; the licensed poem text is meant to sit alongside.
Cross-poem comparison page
A three-axis scaffold (who holds power, where conflict comes from, the speaker's distance) and a 250-350 word comparison-paragraph template for the exam-paper question.
Teacher moves
Short callouts inside the modelled-analysis sections — what to model live, what to resist analysing, where to make the AO target explicit. The bits that usually live in margin notes after a fifth read.
Who it's for
We wrote this for three teachers in particular.
First-year GCSE English teachers
If you have not yet taught the AQA Power and Conflict cluster, the lesson plans give you a worked sequence — done-by-someone-who-has-taught-it — for the three poems that are most likely to anchor your unit.
Department leads sequencing the cluster
The three poems span the cluster's full conceptual range — monumental tyrant, embedded system, non-human force. Drop the lessons into your scheme of work as the first or last week, then use the comparison page to teach the exam-paper question.
Teachers cycling back to refresh a unit
Drop in just the comparison page (Page 10) as a department-wide rubric for the AQA comparison question. It works without the rest of the unit.
Take it with you
Free PDF, no sign-up, no follow-up email.
The whole unit lives at storgy.com — share the URL with your department. If the scaffolds work for you and you want the same depth on every poem in your chosen AQA cluster, the Founding Teacher coupon inside the PDF gets you $25 off Storgy Teacher Pro.