Participant’s name: Ben Lerner

Name of Key Component: Post-Reading Activity

Aim of activity: To encourage students to make Estimated time: 45 minutes
their own connection between the poem and the for an advanced 1-2 level.
world around them in a meaningful and creative
way.
Choose ONE of the following activities:

1. Write a letter addressed to a leader or politician (either a past leader or a current one) whom you
believe needs to learn a lesson from the poem Ozymandias. Start by stating the main message of the
poem and continue by explaining how it is relevant to them. End with advice on what they should do next.
(80 words or more).

2. In the spirit of the poem, re-create a famous man-made landmark as you believe it might look
thousands of years from now (this can be a model, a painting, a digital rendering of a photograph, etc.).
Explain in writing how the famous monument got to that situation over the years (45 words or more).

3. With a classmate, film an interview with Ozymandias' mummy in which he is challenge by the host to
remark on the modern world and how it compares to his own, both technologically and politically. Each
participant will be graded individually and should speak at least 80 words.

Key Components Template

Instructions: At the culmination of each session you will be asked to create an original activity for a new
Key Component for the poem you are working on. (Please remember: you may NOT copy an activity out
of a textbook – it MUST be original otherwise it will not be accepted.) Name this file as follows: “Your
name Key Component session number” (For example: Sarah Cohen Basic Understanding S3.docx) and
upload it by clicking on the Task Button for each session.

Paste the poem you are working on, here.

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."