Daedalus and Icarus

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to develop and perform drama plays to illustrate the sequence of events in a scene from the Ancient Greece myth of Daedalus and Icarus.
The class can explain how to structure and format writing to match the narrative text features of myths to indicate the dilemmas faced by the main characters.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to develop and perform drama plays to illustrate the sequence of events in a scene from the Ancient Greece myth of Daedalus and Icarus
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the narrative structure and content of myths from Ancient Greece and a set of cards to devise and perform drama scenes to illustrate a scene from the Ancient Greece myth of Daedalus and Icarus.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and perform drama plays to illustrate the sequence of events in a scene from an Ancient Greece myth.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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