Grade 2 - Greek Myths

Greek Myths: Supplemental Guide 6B | Daedalus and Icarus 121

Greek Myths Journal (Instructional Master 6B-1) 15 minutes

• Tell students that this page of their journal will be about the
  Greek myth “Daedalus and Icarus.”


• Show students Instructional Master 6B-1. Have students
  describe what they see in the illustration. Have students share
  about the characters in this myth.


• Read the title line together “Daedalus and Icarus.” Then have
  students write two or three sentences about this myth.


• Students may draw a picture about their sentences on the back
  of the page.


• Allow time for students to share their journal entries with a
  partner or with their home-language peers.

Which Happened First? (Instructional Master 6B-2) 15 minutes

• Tell students that you are going to play a game called “Which
  Happened First?” You will read a pair of sentences that you
  have written on chart paper or sentence strips. Each sentence
  begins with a blank. One volunteer will choose which sentence
  happened fi rst in the story and write the word First on the blank
  before that sentence. Then another volunteer will write the word
  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.