First English Literature session. Opened intending An Inspector Calls (M1.1) but she has no copy of the play — or of any of the four set texts — so switched to the Power and Conflict anthology, which needs no book. Worked Ozymandias end to end: read twice, one-sentence summary, condition of the statue, then the central irony between the inscription and the ruin. She wrote one paragraph plus two added sentences, all her own words; no model paragraph given. Noticed the second-hand narration ("a man met a traveller and they told him") on first read, unprompted.
Starter: recall "Nothing beside remains" and the inscription verbatim (spelling of 'beside'). Then finish Ozymandias — sonnet form, the speaker/traveller framing, and Shelley's context as a Romantic hostile to tyranny — before pairing it with a second Power and Conflict poem. Blocked on set texts until copies arrive.
| Topic | Name | Change | Evidence recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| P1.01 | Not started → Developing | Ozymandias: identified the irony between 'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' and 'Nothing beside remains', and read sand as a symbol of time. Paragraph reached Level 4 descriptor — 'clear, explained response to task, effective use of references' — with prompting to place boast against ruin. | |
| K5 | Not started → Developing | Wrote 'Shelley's used Ozymandias's pride as a flaw' and 'Shelley moves from the rubble to the inscription' — writer as grammatical subject, unprompted on both occasions in this session. | |
| K1 | Not started → Developing | Produced a what–how–why paragraph on Ozymandias with support: what (pride defeated by time), how (sand as symbol, 'Nothing beside remains'), why (shows how powerful time is). Level 4 — clear and explained, with relevant references. | |
| K3.2 | Not started → Not started | Unprompted structural point: 'Shelley moves from the rubble to the inscription and then the irony of the inscription' — order of presentation linked to effect on reader. One instance only, supported task. | |
| K2.6 | Not started → Not started | Writer treated as agent rather than character in three separate sentences this session; opening slip 'She shows...' corrected to 'Shelley'. |