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Chunk 9
75 Up high on Olympus, the gods in their cool garden heard a clamor of grief
from below. Zeus looked upon earth. He saw the runaway horses of the sun and the hurtling chariot. He saw the dead and the dying, the burning forests, the floods, the weird frost. Then he looked again at the chariot and saw that it was not Apollo driving, but someone he did not know. He stood up, drew back his arm, and hurled a thunderbolt.
76 It stabbed through the air, striking Phaethon, killing him instantly, knocking him out of the chariot. His body, flaming, fell like a star. And the horses of the sun, knowing themselves driverless, galloped homeward toward their stables at the eastern edge of the sky.
77 Phaethon’s yellow-haired sisters grieved for the beautiful boy. They could not stop weeping. They stood on the bank of the river where he had fallen until Apollo, unable to comfort them, changed them into poplar trees. Here they still stand on the shore of the river, weeping tears of amber sap.
INdepeNdeNT
readING LINk
Read and Respond
In the book of myths or folktales you are reading, describe the relationship between humans and the natural world. Who controls the natural world? What role do humans and animals have in the world? What roles do gods
78 And since that day no one has been allowed to drive the chariot of the sun and goddesses play, if any? except the sun god himself. But there are still traces of Phaethon’s ride. The ends of Write your responses in your
the earth are still covered with icecaps. Mountains still rumble, trying to spit out the fire started in their bellies by the diving sun.
Second Read
• Reread the myth to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Key Ideas and Details: In chunk 2, how does Phaethon respond to Epaphus’s taunting? What might this tell you about his character?
2. Key Ideas and Details: Look at paragraphs 22–23. How does the argument between the friends set the plot in motion? Cite details from the story to support your answers.
3. Key Ideas and Details: Read paragraph 27. How does Apollo feel about his son, Phaethon? What dialogue shows his attitude toward his son?
Independent Reading Log.
My Notes
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clamor: the sound of people shouting or calling out in anger, grief, or confusion
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