Answer on your

notebooks Task 4 I
THINK on pages 9-
10.
Answer on your
notebooks Task 5.1
A SCHEME FOR
SCHEMA on page 10.
Hint:
Take note of your answer
and be able to relate all of
them to the selection that
you are about to read.
Read Task 5.2 THE
GUIDING PATH on
page 11.
1. HOW DOES ICARUS GET
HIMSELF INTO A DIFFICULT
SITUATION?

2. HOW DID ICARUS ESCAPE

FROM CRETE?
1. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE
MYTHS THAT YOU HAVE READ?

2. WHY ARE THESE STORIES

CALLED MYTH?
Accomplish on your
notebooks, Task 5.3
ANTICIPATION-
REACTION GUIDE,
page 12.
Play Task 6.
VOCABULARY
SPINNER on page
12.
WAX
Definition:
-any of various natural, oily or
greasy heat-sensitive substance
SUSCEPTIBLE
Definition:
-likely or liable to be influenced or
harmed by a particular thing
Synonym:
-sensitive, subject to, exposed
Antonym:
-guarded, protected, secured
COMFORTABLE
Definition:
-affording or enjoying contentment
and security
Synonym:
-cozy, easy, comfy
Antonym:
-discontented, dissatisfied,
displeased
OVERLAPPING
Definition:
-to lie over parts of one another
Synonym:
-overspreading, overlying
Antonym:
PLUNGED
Definition:
-enter quickly and forcibly into
something
Synonym:
-fell, dipped, dove
Antonym:
-climbed, rose, soared
HURTLED
Definition:
-to move rapidly or forcefully
Synonym:
-flew, hurried, speed
Antonym:
-decelerated, crawled, crept
VENGEFUL
Definition:
-seeking to harm someone in
return for a perceived injury
Synonym:
-revengeful, vindictive
Antonym:
-forgiving, merciful
ASSIGNMENT:
How do personal challenges
make you a better person?
 NICK PONTIKIS
H E I S A FA M O U S A U T H O R W H O
W ROT E T H E F I C T I O N S TO RY O F
‘ DA E DA LU S A N D I C A RU S ' . H E W A S B O R N
A N D R A I S E D I N G R E E C E . H I S B I R T H D AY
I S O N J U LY 1 5 , 1 8 8 0 . H I S M O T H E R L A N D
I S G R E E C E A N D T H E R I C H H I S TO RY O F
H I S C O U N T RY I N S P I R E D H I M TO W R I T E
H I S B E S T S E L L I N G B O O K ' DA E DA LU S
AND ICARUS' WHICH IS ONE OF THE
WELL - K N OWN STO R IES IN TH E G R EEK
L I T E R AT U R E . H E R E M A I N E D L O W -
PROFILE IN SPITE OF BEING AN
E S TA B L I S H E D W R I T E R .
Read the text ‘Daedalus and
Icarus’ on page 13.
Answer the comprehension
questions on your notebooks,
Task 8 FACTS AND DETAILS,
page 16.
1. Who hired Daedalus?
King Minos
2. What did Daedalus design
to hold the Minotaur?
He designed the labyrinth
on Crete in which the
Minotaur was kept.
 labyrinth

Minotaur
3. What did Daedalus invent
to help them escape from the
Labyrinth?
Daedalus invented
artificial wings that are
fashioned with feathers held
together with wax to help him
and his son, Icarus to escape
from the Labyrinth.
4. What did he warn Icarus
not to do?
Icarus was warned not to
fly too close to the sun, as
the wings he made for
himself were made of wax
and feathers and they would
melt.
5. What happened to Icarus?
His wings melted and he
crashed and died.
Answer the interpretation
questions on your notebooks,
Task 9 WHAT’S GOING ON?,
page 16.
1. Why did Minos imprison
Daedalus in the Labyrinth?
Daedalus revealed the
secret mystery of the
Labyrinth to Ariadne and this
made Theseus escape the
Crete.
2. Why did Minos think that, if
Daedalus can’t find his way
out, “so much the better”?
Because he was mad at
Daedalus for helping Theseus
kill Minotaur his stepson and
leaving together with Ariadne.
3. Minos tells Icarus that the
plan is dangerous. Why does
he want them to take this
risk?
Minos tells Icarus that the
plan is dangerous, but then he
wanted them to take the risk
because he knows that no one
could escape in the Labyrinth.
4. Why did Daedalus leave his
wings on the altar of Apollo?
Daedalus leave his wings
on the altar of Apollo as an
offering to the Olympian God.
Why wouldn’t he want to fly
some more?
because he was so dreadful to
what happened to his son
Icarus
Answer the evaluation
questions on your notebooks,
Task 10 DIGGING DEEPER,
page 16.
1. IN A SHORT PARAGRAPH
DESCRIBE HOW DAEDALUS
PLANNED TO ESCAPE FROM
THE ISLAND PRISON OF
CRETE.

2. DO YOU THINK DAEDALUS’S

PLAN TO ESCAPE WILL OR
WILL NOT WORK?
2.COULD THE EVENTS OF
DAEDALUS’S AND ICARUS’S
ESCAPE, FROM THE ISLAND
PRISON OF CRETE, HAPPEN IN
REAL LIFE?

3. WHICH EVENTS OF THE

MYTH COULD HAVE HAPPENED
IN REAL LIFE??
4.IF YOU HAD ACCESS TO
BUILDING RESOURCES AND
MATERIALS, HOW WOULD YOU
DESIGN A FLYING MACHINE TO
HELP YOU ESCAPE FROM THE
ISLAND PRISON OF CRETE?
Answer Task 11 FACT OR NOT
on your notebooks, page 16.
ASSIGNMENT:
Task 12 AGREE OR DISAGREE
your notebooks, pages 16-17.