Grade 2 - Greek Myths

90 Greek Myths: Supplemental Guide 5 | Theseus and the Minotaur

Exercise Materials Details

Discussing the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Comprehension Questions

Word Work: Convinced

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day

Extensions (20 minutes)

Greek Myths Journal Instructional Master 5B-1; drawing

tools

This will be the page for the myth

“Theseus and the Minotaur.”

Which Happened First? Instructional Master 5B-2 You may wish to give a pair of students

a set of First, Then sentence strips

and have the class decide which event

happened first. Then have the students

physically position themselves in the

order of story events until all eight

sentence strips are in order.

Sequencing the Story Instructional Master 5B-3

Advance Preparation

Create a Greek Myths Chart, using Instructional Master 5A-1 as a

guide. You can use this chart for review purposes. You may wish

to have students fi ll in their own charts as you fi ll in the class chart.

Make a copy of Instructional Master 5A-2 for each student. Refer

to it as Response Card 5 for the Greek myth “Theseus and the

Minotaur.” Students can use this Response Card to preview,

review, and answer questions about this myth.

Bring in additional images of labyrinths and mazes.

Make a copy of Instructional Master 5B-1 for each student. This

will be the page for “Theseus and the Minotaur” in their Greek

Myths journal.

Write the sentences from the Extensions activity, Which Happened

First?, on strips of chart paper to create sentence strips that can

be read at a distance.

Create a Character Chart for today’s read-aloud. (See sample

chart in the lesson.)