"Daedalus and Icarus"

Not being the son of a god can really burn. In the retelling of the Greek myth "Daedalus and Icarus," Geraldine McCaughrean shows what happens when a boy forgets the advice of his father.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 7 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Road Not Taken, Choices, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Dust Tracks on a Road, Bad Boy, Why Couldn't I Have Been Named Ashley?, Phaethon, Daedalus and Icarus, Arachne, The Lion, the Fox, and the Stag, A Note from the Author, creation myths
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  1. summon
    call in an official matter, such as to attend court
    One day he summoned to his country a famous inventor named Daedalus.
  2. venture
    proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
    In the cellars there was to be a maze of many corridors--so twisting and dark that any man who once ventured in there would never find his way out again.
  3. delectable
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
    They ate delectable food and wore expensive clothes.
  4. luxurious
    rich and superior in quality
    The birds had only to spread their wings and they could leave Crete behind them, whereas Daedalus and Icarus must stay forever in their luxurious cage.
  5. daub
    cover by smearing
    Daedalus melted down a candle and daubed his son's shoulders with sticky wax.
  6. shrill
    having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
    He copied their shrill cry and taunted them: "You can't catch me!"
  7. jeer
    laugh at with contempt and derision
    "Think you're the highest thing in the sky, do you?" he jeered.
  8. determined
    strongly motivated to succeed
    He was so determined to outfly the sun.
  9. vast
    unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope
    Soon its vast heat beat on his face and on his back and on the great wings stuck on with wax.
  10. plume
    anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness
    Then a plume of feathers fluttered slowly down.
Created on Fri Aug 22 19:08:08 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Aug 22 22:44:38 EDT 2014)

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