Icarus' Teaching Text

In pairs, we were assigned to develop a teaching package for a short story entitled The Fall of Icarus.

Our lecturer assigned us to come out with a 200 words passage as a reading text for students with some or high English Language proficiency. We need to leave out extra details that not necessary from the original text entitled Daedalus and Icarus.
This is the 200 words passage that we had done:

“Father! Help me, father!” cries Icarus as the deep blue water swallows him.
“Icarus, my son! Where are you?” Daedalus calls. As he still calling Icarus, he saw feathers on the water. The poor father curses his inventive skill and his longing for his own country. This is the time when he remembers the beginning of this tragedy as he set his mind to sciences never explored before.
He fastened the feathers together in the middle with thread, and at the bottom with wax. As his killer invention is ready, he prepared Icarus, his only son, to fly too.
Daedalus said, “You must fly between the sun and land, if you fly too high, the sun will melt the wax, or the water will make your wings heavy if you go too low.”
As Daedalus flew in front, Icarus, drown by his eagerness for the open sky, left his guide and soared upwards till he came too close to the blazing sun. The wax softened! He moved his bare arms up and down, but without the feathers, they had no purchase on the air.
Daedalus laid his son to rest in a tomb where the land took his name.

(199 words)