Grade 2 - Greek Myths

104 Greek Myths: Supplemental Guide 5B | Theseus and the Minotaur

Then on the blank before the sentence that happens second in

the story.

• Alternatively, you may wish to give a pair of students a set of
  First, Then sentence strips and have the class decide which
  event happened fi rst. Then have the students physically position
  themselves in the order of story events until all eight sentence
  strips are in order.
  ➶ Above and Beyond: You may wish to do this extension as an
  assessment and have students use Instructional Master 5B-2 to
  write First and Then on the corresponding lines.

1. , King Minos sends a ship with black sails to Athens.
   (Then)
   , King Minos’s son dies in Athens. (First)


2. , Theseus meets his father. (First)
   , Theseus convinces his father to let him go on the ship
   with black sails. (Then)


3. , Theseus uses gold thread to fi nd his way back to the
   gate of the Labyrinth. (Then)
   , Princess Ariadne asks Daedalus how Theseus can
   escape from the Labyrinth. (First)


4. , Theseus forgets to change the sails on the ship from
   black to white. (First)
   , King Aegeus falls into the sea. (Then)

 Sequencing the Story^15 minutes

Tell students that they should review the images on Instructional

Master 5B-3 carefully to determine what event is depicted in each

image. Then they should cut out the six images and glue or tape

them, in the proper sequence, on a blank sheet of paper.