Lyddie: Lesson seven, Unit 1

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Checking for Understanding Entry Task Quiz!!

• On your own today!

• You MAY use your Notes

• You may NOT use the book

Chapter

Setting Characters

Plot How do the setting, character and/ or plot interact?

9 Three things Lyddie notices on her first day in the weaving room about the working conditions:1.

2.

3.

Why do Lyddie’s roomates tell her she should not go see Diana?

How does Diana help Lyddie?

LyddieReading Chapter 9

Chapter

Setting Characters

Plot How do the setting, character and/ or plot interact?

9 Concord Corp. factory

Boarding house

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Mr. Marsden (overseer)

Diana Goss

Lyddie is panicked from the noise and dust of the machines.

Diana shows her how to run a power loom, but it all happens too fast for her.

Lyddie’s roommates warn her that Diana is a rebel.

Lyddie goes to Diana’s house. Diana gives Lyddie paper & stamps to write a letter to her mother & Charlie.

Three things Lyddie notices on her first day in the weaving room about the working conditions:1. loud2. Dusty air3. No light (small window)

Why do Lyddie’s roomates tell her she should not go see Diana?Diana is a rebel who has spoken out about getting better working conditions.

How does Diana help Lyddie? (paper & stamps)

LyddieReading Chapter 9

LyddieDefinitions

goods: (65) cloth

flaw: (65) imperfection, mistake

radical: (67) someone working for change, especially as relates to society, the economy or the government

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decipher: (66) read; make meaning of something that’s hard to understand

infamous: (69) well know for being bad

operatives: (69) workers, especially workers who operate machinery

LyddieDefinitions

What new words did you define?

Chapter

Setting Characters

Plot How do the setting, character and/ or plot interact?

10 Concord Corp. factory

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Diana Goss

Mr. Marsden (overseer)

How does Lyddie’s first full day in the weaving room affect her?

What does Betsy do for Lyddie?

LyddieReading Chapter 8

Chapter

Setting Characters

Plot How do the setting, character and/ or plot interact?

10 Concord Corp. factory

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Diana Goss

Mr. Marsden (overseer)

Bestsy

Lyddie wakes up at 4:30 AM, but can’t eat until 7 AM. She goes straight to work.

Work is very hard, and Lyddie feels sick and tired at the end of the day.

Bestsy gives her some advice about shoes and reads to Lyddie to help her relax. Lyddie loves the book Oliver.

How does Lyddie’s first full day in the weaving room affect her?She has a hard time breathing, she has a headache, it’s very hot and she’s confused at how fast everything goes. She is tired and homesick by the end of the day.

What does Betsy do for Lyddie?She reads to Lyddie to help her relax and forget her bad day.

LyddieReading Chapter 8

LyddieDefinitions

strenuous: (74)

laden: (75)

inferno: (76)

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commenced: (77)

ravenous: (78)

* Why did the author use this word instead of “hungry?

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fatigue: (78)

* Why did the author use this word instead of “tiredness?”_____________________________________What new words did you define?

LyddieLearning Objectives

By engaging in a discussion with my partner, I can analyze one section of Lyddie to deepen my understanding of the plot, characters, and setting.

LyddieLearning Objectives

I can context clues – in sentences and on the page – to determine the meaning of unknown words.

I can cite specific textual evidence to explain what working conditions were like in the mills and how they affected Lyddie.

LyddieLearning Objectives

I can analyze how the author’s word choices create vivid descriptions of Lyddie’s living and working conditions.

LyddieClose Reading

Chapter 10

• Let’s go back and read more closely!

• Turn to page 75-76

• Read along for: How working conditions affect people.

LyddieClose Reading

Meet with AT THE SHUTTLE partners!

• ONLY base this information on pg. 75-76

• Step one: match the card to the quote

• Step two: check your answer with me!

• Step three: answer the questions

Question Answer

“Now that she thought of it, she could hardly breathe, the air was so laden with moisture and debris.” (75)

1) What does laden mean? How do you know?

2) What would it feel like to breathe air “laden with moisture and debris?”

3) Which Working Conditions Note card best explains what this quote helps the reader understand about Lyddie’s life and work?

LyddieClosely Reading Chapter 10

Question Answer

“Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine.” (75)

1) What does the phrase bowels of the machine mean?

2) What is Patterson personifying? Why does she do this?

3) Which Working Conditions Note card best explains what this quote helps the reader understand about Lyddie’s life and work?

LyddieClosely Reading Chapter 10

Question Answer

“Her quiet meals in the corner of the kitchen with Triphena, even her meager bowls of bark soup with the seldom talkative Charlie, seemed like feasts compared to the huge, rushed, noisy affairs in Mrs. Bedlow’s house.” (76)

1) What does the word meager mean? How do you know?

2) It’s contradictory to say a “meager feast.” How could this be true for Lyddie?

3) Which Working Conditions Note card best connects to this quote?

LyddieClosely Reading Chapter 10

LyddieAnchor Chart

Working Conditions – Anchor Chart

• With your partner, add the three new quotes to the chart in the right boxes

• Focus: Working and Living Conditions

• Add a question for each quote, too!

Raise your hand when done to check your work!

LyddieHomework

Homework• Read all of Chapter 11

• Complete Reader’s Notes Chapter 11

• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow!

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2 days!