"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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