Title: Daedalus
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Time: 45 Minute Lesson
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Topic: This is a reading comprehension and critical thinking lesson utilizing the story of Daedalus.
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Goals/Objectives
- Students will evaluate the story of Daedalus, which illustrates how ancient Greeks sought to understand the forces that drove nature, life, and death in their society.
- Students will collaborate and record reasonable assertions about the story through accurate, supporting citations.
- Students will create an outline of the text with a graphic organizer.
- Students will evaluate the main ideas by identifying their relationships to other sources and related topics.
- Students will evaluate how one of various cultures throughout history tried to make sense of the world around them.
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Procedures
- Read and look at some of the characters in the story
- Read and discuss the vocabulary
- Listen to me read a paragraph that provides background to the story you're about to read. "Daedalus was a highly respected and talented Athenian artisan descendent from the royal family of Cecrops, the mythical first king of Athens. He was known for his skill as an architect, sculpture, and inventor, and he produced many famous works. Despite his self-confidence, Daedalus once committed a crime of envy against Talus, his nephew and apprentice. Talus, who seemed destined to become as great an artisan as his uncle Daedalus, was inspired one day to invent the saw after having seen the way a snake used its jaws. Daedalus, momentarily stricken with jealousy, threw Talus off of the Acropolis. For this crime, Daedalus was exiled to Crete and placed in the service of King Minos, where he eventually had a son, Icarus, with the beautiful Naucrates, a mistress-slave of the King.’”
- Visit www.Pollev.com/fausel and reply to the prompts/questions in complete sentences. Keep the website open on a different tab.
- I will ask you to identify at least one of the many morals found in the story and to provide textual evidence to support your answer. I'll also ask you to connect another story that has the moral you find. I'll ask you to point out a few of the similarities and differences between how the stories convey the moral?
- Take active reading notes and to fill out the graphic organizer (located on each page) while the story is aloud. Answer questions that arise during the discussions we have while reading the story.
- Visit the link listed below and silently read while listening to the reading of the story one more time on your own.
http://youtu.be/0gsQg3qrkjE
- Visit www.Pollev.com/fausel and reply to the prompts/questions in complete sentences.