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41 His own father could only watch as Icarus hurtled head first into the glittering sea and sank deep down among the sharks and eels and squid. And all that was left of proud Icarus was a litter of waxy feathers floating on the sea.
Second Read
• Reread the myth to answer these text-dependent comprehension questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Key Ideas and Details: What event creates a conflict in the story? What is Daedalus’s response to the conflict?
2. Craft and Structure: What words give you insight into what kind of person King Minos is?
3. Key Ideas and Details: What elements in the story are characteristics of a myth?
4. Key Ideas and Details: What inference can you make based on paragraphs 34 and 35?
5. Key Ideas and Details: What event is a turning point, or climax, in the story? What event is part of the falling action?
my Notes
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