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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?

14 Why does Betsy leave the mill?

How does Lyddie feel about training Brigid? How do her actions show this?

What does Luke Stevens bring to Lyddie?

LyddieReading Chapter 14

Chapter

Setting Characters

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

14 Concord Corp. factory

Boarding house

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Mr. Marsden(overseer)

Amelia

Betsy

Diana

Amelia quits. Lyddie goes back to work 3 days after her accident.

Lyddie has to train Brigid, an Irish girl. She is not a patient teacher.

Betsy gets very sick from the factory. She can’t work and her brother won’t help her. She’ll never goes to college.

Luke Stevens shows up with $50 from Ezekial, the slave.

Why does Betsy leave the mill?

How does Lyddie feel about training Brigid? How do her actions show this?

What does Luke Stevens bring to Lyddie?

LyddieReading Chapter 14

LyddieDefinitions

pact: (108)

hinder: (109)

stilled: (110)

LyddieDefinitions

ornery: (111) stubborn, often doing the opposite of what other people want you to do

infirmary: (112) a place for medical treatment; a clinic

cast off: (113)

LyddieDefinitions

hust: (113) the useless outer shell of a plant that remains once the useful inner part is gone or used up

draft: (115) check

What new words did you define?

LyddieLearning Objectives

I can cite specific textual evidence to describe the decision Lyddie has to make about whether or not to sign the petition.

By engaging in discussion, I can analyze one section of Lyddie in order to deepen my understanding of her decision.

LyddieChapter 14

Choosing words carefully…

• Lyddie refers to Betsy as a “cast-off husk.”

• Why didn’t Patterson just say Betsy was sick and left?

• What addition understanding of the mill conditions do you get from this description?

LyddieCreating Claims

Creating a Claim

Should Lyddie sign the petition or not?

• Key question for this Unit of the book!

LyddieCreating Claims

Good reasons for Lyddie to sign the petition:

LyddieCreating Claims

Good reasons for Lyddie NOT to sign the petition:

LyddieCreating Claims

Creating a Claim

• Look at BOTH sides!

• Turn to page 91: “We’re all working like…”

• Let’s read it together!

LyddieCreating Claims

AT THE CLOSED WINDOW partner!

• Worth together on the Text-Dependent Questions

• Notice the page numbers to help you!

Questions Answers

1. What about the working conditions makes Betsy think she should sign the petition?

2. Lyddie says, “If we just work ten hours, we’d be paid much less.” (91)

What can you infer that the petition is calling for?

What does Lyddie think will happen to her wages if the mill owners listen to the petition?

LyddieTextual Evidence

Questions Answers

3. Workers who signed the petition might be blacklisted (92). What does this mean?

4. How does Lyddie compare the factory work to her life in the tavern?

5. Lyddie says, “I got to have the money. I got to pay the debts before –” (92)

What does she mean?

LyddieTextual Evidence

LyddieCreating Claims

Form a Claim• Need evidence: quote from text

• Need to explain your thoughts

• Let me show you!!

LyddieForming Evidence-Based ClaimsFocusing Question Why should Lyddie sign the petition?

Detail from the Novel Detail from the Novel Detail from the Novel

“But in those days I had a hundred thirty spindles to tend. Now I’ve twice that many at a speed that would make the devil curse.” (91)

My thinking about this detail

My thinking about his detail

My thinking about this detail

How is Betsy feeling when she says this?

Can you read it that way?

LyddieForming Evidence-Based ClaimsFocusing Question Why should Lyddie sign the petition?

Detail from the Novel Detail from the Novel Detail from the Novel

“But in those days I had a hundred thirty spindles to tend. Now I’ve twice that many at a speed that would make the devil curse.” (91)

My thinking about this detail

My thinking about his detail

My thinking about this detail

Betsy is complaining that the work has sped up a lot. This has made work very difficult and tiring for workers, which is a reason to sign. There is no reason to suspect it will get better on its own.

Explain the quote.

Analyze the quote & connect it to the question.

LyddieCreating Claims

Form a Claim• With your partner, find ONE more

quote from pages 91-93

• Quote should show why she SHOULD sign

• Write it in, then below explain and analyze!

LyddieHomework

Homework• Read all of Chapters 15-16

• Complete Reader’s Notes Chapter 15-16

• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow!