Lyddie: Lesson fourteen, Unit 1

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Checking for Understanding Entry Task!!

• You MAY use your Notes

• You may NOT use the book

Chapter

Setting Characters

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

18 As Lyddie helps Rachel get ready to go on the train she “brushed away a cobweb of envy.” (145) Why does she feel envious in this chapter?

What does she do with this feeling?

What is her reaction to Luke’s letter?

LyddieReading Chapter 18

Chapter

Setting Characters


18 Boarding house

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Charlie Worthen (brother)

Rachel (sister)

Charlie visits Lyddie. He is being apprenticed and can go to school part-time. Uncle Jonah is selling the farm & keeping the money. Charlie brought a letter from Luke Stevens.

Charlie takes Rachel back with him, which breaks Lyddie’s heart.

Luke’s letter says his father bought Lyddie’s farm. It also proposes marriage!

As Lyddie helps Rachel get ready to go on the train she “brushed away a cobweb of envy.” (145) Why does she feel envious in this chapter?

What does she do with this feeling?

What is her reaction to Luke’s letter?


LyddieDefinitions

in vain: (141) without success

slack: (142)

craves: (142)

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wryly: (143) said in a way that shows that the speaker knows a situation is bad, but also slightly amusing (sarcastic)

miserly: (144)

** Remember…Scrooge is a miser! **

LyddieDefinitions

What new words did you define?

Chapter

Setting Characters


19 What happens when Lyddie goes to sign the petition?

What is her reaction?

Why is Diana leaving? Why must she keep it a secret?


Chapter

Setting Characters


19 Concord Corp. factory

Boarding house

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Diana

Mary Emerson

Lyddie misses Rachel and is depressed. Work gets harder and longer as they “slow the clocks.”

Lyddie notices that Diana looks sick and avoids her. Lyddie attends an Association meeting. She finds out it’s too late to sign the petition.

Diana tells Lyddie she’s quitting because she’s pregnant and will be fired.

What happens when Lyddie goes to sign the petition?

What is her reaction?

Why is Diana leaving? Why must she keep it a secret?


LyddieDefinitions

calloused: (148)• literally – • figuratively -

grim: (149)

reading minutes: (150) reading the notes taken at the last meeting

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droning: (151)

robust: (152)

LyddieDefinitions

What new words did you define?

LyddieLearning Objectives

I can choose relevant and compelling reasons, supported by strong evidence from Lyddie to support the claim I am making in my argument essay.

LyddieArguement

Turn & Talk

• With a shoulder partner, share:

What will Lyddie do now?

LyddieWriting Argument

Schedule of work• Work on essay over next few days

• Read Chapters 20-23 (finish the book) one week from today!!!

• What can you do to make the reading easier for you?


What you need• ALL your Reader’s Notes!

• Forming Evidence-Based Claims organizer

• Working Conditions Textual Evidence Note-catcher


What is a GOOD reason?• Not all reasons are good ones!

• Compelling reasons= 1. very convincing2. make sense3. supported by strong evidence


Compelling or not?

“You should go to the movie because it’s a short movie – it’s only 90 minutes long.”

NOT


Compelling or not?

“You should go to the movie because mine out of ten teenagers say it’s a great movie.”

Better!


Compelling or not?

“You should go to the movie because Meryl Streep is in it.”

Depends

…


Compelling or not?

“You should go to the movie because the acting in the movie is fantastic! Meryl Streep is in it, and she’s an actress who has won many awards.”

Better

…


Compelling or not?

“You should go to the movie because I saw it before, and it’s funny! I’d like to see it again.”

Depends

…


After reading through Chapter 17 of Lyddie, write an argumentative essay that addresses the question:

Should Lyddie sign the petition that Diana Goss is circulating?

Support your position with evidence from the novel. Be sure to acknowledge competing views, and refer only to information and events in the book, not what you know because you live in the 21st century.


Take a Stand!

A is better? Go to the top of the room

B is better? Go to the bookcases

NOT SURE? Middle of the room

“Lyddie should sign the petition because the people she cares about are becoming sick from working long hours in the dust-filled air.”


A

“Lyddie should sign the petition because working longer than ten (10) hours a day is really hard.”

B

“Lyddie should not sign the petition because she will earn less money and needs money to buy back the farm.”


A

“Lyddie should not sign the petition because Mr. Mardsen would be disappointed, and she doesn’t want Mr. Mardsen to think less of her.”

B

“Lyddie should sign the petition because the workers, by being forced to work longer hours for less pay, are being treated more and more like slaves.”


A

“Lyddie should sign the petition because if she signed it and worked fewer hours, she would have more time to read.”

B


Forming Evidence-Based Claims organizer• Look at the “Reasons” at the bottom• Highlight your three most

compelling reasons

• Look at the “Evidence” row & make sure you can back these three up!

• Star any evidence which supports your highlighted reasons


Forming Evidence-Based Claims organizer• Turn to shoulder partner

• Discuss what you highlighted & starred

• THEN, flip over your organizer!• Circle the reason that almost convinced

you to write about this side (counterclaim)

• You’ll need this, too!


Forming Evidence-Based Claims organizer• Time to write your claim• On your exit ticket:

Because of ______________________________, Lyddie should/ should not sign the petition. She should/ should not sign the petition because __________________________. The most compelling reasons for Lyddie to sign/ not sign the petition are ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.


Exit Ticket

• Write your claim out…

• List the reasons you’ll use to support

your claim

LyddieHomework

Homework• Read all of Chapters 20-23

• Complete Reader’s Notes Chapters 20-23

• Must be finished by next week!

Lyddie: Lesson fourteen, Unit 1

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