1. Standards
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. Landscape With the Fall of Icarus by Peter Breughel
Have students make a list of everything they see in the painting. This is citing text evidence, but this time the “text” is a painting.
An inference is when we draw a logical conclusion based on details in a text. What can we infer about the artist’s view of the Fall of Icarus based on the details in the painting.

3. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus William Carlos Williams
According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling with itself sweating in the sun that melted the wings' wax Unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning
Give examples of images from the poem that correspond with the painting.
What do the painting and the poem have to say about the fall of Icarus? What can we infer about the artists’ feelings toward/ about Icarus?