Lyddie: Lesson ninteen, Unit 1

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Entry Task – Checking for Understanding Quiz!!

• Can use your Reader’s Notes

• Can NOT use your book

Chapter

Setting Characters

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

20 What are some ways that Lyddie helps Brigid? How does this affect Lyddie? How does it affect Brigid?

LyddieReading Chapter 20

Chapter

Setting Characters


20 Concord Corp. factory

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Brigid

Mr. Marsden

Life at the factory is ok for Lyddie, who keeps practicing reading and writing. She starts teaching Brigid to read.

She still won’t answer Luke’s letter.

Lyddie finds out that her mother died, but has no real reaction.

Lyddie finds Mr. Marsden attacking Brigid and douses him with a bucket of water.

What are some ways that Lyddie helps Brigid? How does this affect Lyddie? How does it affect Brigid?


LyddieDefinitions

scrupulous: (155)

yoke: (156)** Not the egg!

begrudge: (158) to feel angry or upset with someone because they have something you feel they don’t deserve

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tumult: (159)

sedate: (159)

hulking: (160)

** Think about the HULK!

LyddieDefinitions

What new words did you define?

Chapter

Setting Characters


21 Why was Lyddie fired? According to the agent and the overseer? According to her?

What does this encounter tell you about workers’ rights in the mills?


Chapter

Setting Characters


21 Concord Corp. factory

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Mr. Marsden

Mr. Graves (agent)

Lyddie is nervous the next day, especially when she finds out Brigid is fired.

Mr. Marsden reports Lyddie for being a troublemaker and having “moral turpitude.” (shameful or disgusting actions)

Lyddie is fired and “blacklisted.”

Why was Lyddie fired? According to the agent and the overseer? According to her?

What does this encounter tell you about workers’ rights in the mills?


LyddieDefinitions

searing: (162) ** Think frying pan!

trespassed: (164)

distressing: (165)

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cackle: (164)** Think witch!

solemn: (167)

benumbed: (168)

LyddieDefinitions


Chapter

Setting Characters


22 How does Lyddie respond to being fired? What does she do to protect Brigid?

Why is Mrs. Bedlow surprised that Lyddie was fired?

What is moral turpitude?


Chapter

Setting Characters


22 Boarding house

Brigid’s house in the Acre(Lowell)

Boston

Vermont

Lyddie Worthen

Mrs. Bedlow

Brigid

Mr. Marsden

Diana Goss

Lyddie tells Mrs. Bedlow she’ll be leaving.She buys a dictionary to find out what “turpitude” is.

Lyddie visits Brigid in the Acre to tell her that she wrote a letter to Marsden threatening to tell his wife about him if Brigid is fired. She confronts Marsden to threaten him in person.

She goes to Boston to visit Diana, then travels to Vermont.

How does Lyddie respond to being fired? What does she do to protect Brigid?

Why is Mrs. Bedlow surprised that Lyddie was fired?

What is moral turpitude?


LyddieDefinitions

incredulous: (170)

parcels: (171)

gingerly: (174) ** Ginger is a spice!

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dilute: (173)

vile: (171) immoral or evil; can also be used informally to mean very unpleasant or bad.

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Chapter

Setting Characters


23 Why does Lyddie return to the tavern?

Why does Lyddie go back to the farm? What connection do you think it will have to her future? Why?


Chapter

Setting Characters


23 VermontNovember 1846

Cutler’s Tavern

Lyddie Worthen

Triphena

Luke Stevens

Lyddie visits Triphena at Cutler’s Tavern. She hopes to get a job there, but realizes she wouldn’t fit in anyway.

She goes to the mill to visit Charlie and Rachel, but they are at school.

She finally goes to her old house. It looks well-kept and she goes in. Luke shows up. Lyddie decides to go to college. She might come back to marry Luke in the future.

Why does Lyddie return to the tavern?

Why does Lyddie go back to the farm? What connection do you think it will have to her future? Why?


LyddieDefinitions

monstrosities: (177) * What word is inside it?

pang: (177)

homely: (179)

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content: (179)

** content vs. content…

crinkled: (182)

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crumpled: (182)


LyddieLearning Objectives

I can effectively engage in discussions with my classmates about the characters, setting and plot in Lyddie.

I can analyze Lyddie’s character traits by citing specific evidence and recognizing patterns from the beginning, middle and end of the novel.

LyddieCharacter Traits

Think-Pair-Share• Given her character traits and the way

she reacts to adversity, what will happen to her?

• What hints does the author give us in the last chapters?


World Café • What can YOU do to make sure

conversation helps everyone in your group analyze how Lyddie’s character traits developed throughout the book?

• Raise your hand when you think of TWO!


World Café • Bring folders with notes/ organizers

with you!

• One person records

• All discuss & recorder write it down


World Café # 1The book opens with Lyddie staring down a real bear. This foreshadows the way she deals with the symbolic “bears” she encounters throughout the novel. (examples)

What do the symbolic “bears” have in common with the real bear?

What character traits does Lyddie have that let her successfully “stare down” each “bear” she encounters? Include specific examples from different parts of the book to support your thinking.


World Café • Recorder…STAY PUT

• Everyone else move to another station

• Recorder: share your ideas

• Pick a new recorder


World Café # 2Over the course of the book, Lyddie tells Ezekial, her co-workers, and herself that she, “ain’t a slave.” Yet, at times, she doubts if this is true.

Is Lyddie free at the factory? (pg. 94, 91, 58)

Is Lyddie free at the end of the book? (pg. 178, 182)

What does freedom mean to Lyddie? Does her definition change throughout the book?





• Pick a new recorder


World Café # 3After Rachel and Diane leave, Lyddie feels a heavy heart (148), but she tells herself it is better, “not to carry the burden of debt or, what was worse, the welfare of other persons.” (156) At the end she reminds herself, “Don’t you know better than to tie yourself to some other living soul?” (181)

How has Lyddie tied herself to other characters? (Brigid, Charlie, Rachel, Luke, co-workers) How has she refused?

Do you think Lyddie should sacrifice some of her independence and tie herself to others in the future? Why or why not?





• Add last idea to your paper…

LyddieWriting Argument

Exit Ticket

• List Lyddie’s character traits on lines

• Characters traits = aspects (parts)

of a character’s personality

(…greedy, kind, loving,

impatient…)

LyddieHomework

Homework• Answer questions in a paragraph each!!

• Introduction Sentence A• Cite evidence/ quote C• Explain your quote E

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