Grade 2 - Greek Myths

Greek Myths: Supplemental Guide 6 | Daedalus and Icarus 109

Exercise Materials Details

Extensions (20 minutes)

Sayings and Phrases: Cold Feet

Greek Myths Journal Instructional Master 6B-1; drawing
tools

This will be the page for the myth

“Daedalus and Icarus.”

Which Happened First? Instructional Master 6B-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 6B-3

Advance Preparation

Make a copy of Instructional Master 6A-1 for each student. Refer

to it as Response Card 6 for the Greek myth “Daedalus and

Icarus.” Students can use this Response Card to preview, review,

and answer questions about this myth.

Make a copy of Instructional Master 6B-1 for each student. This

will be the page for “Daedalus and Icarus” 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.)

Continue the class Gods, Mortals, and Creatures Chart. You may

wish to use the character cut-out on Instructional Master 6A-2.

You will add to this chart as students meet the different types of

characters in the read-alouds.