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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?

17 How does Lyddie arrange for Rachel to stay?

What is her worry about Rachel?

LyddieReading Chapter 17

Chapter

Setting Characters

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

17 Concord Corp. factory

Boarding house

(Lowell)

Lyddie Worthen

Rachel (sister)

Diana

Brigid

Mrs. Bedlow

Lyddie stays sick in bed for 2 weeks. She tells Diana about Mr. Marsden’s advances.

She gets a litter from Mr. Stevens who promises to look into the farm sale.

Mrs. Bedlow helps arrange a doffer job for Rachel. Lyddie feels good getting back to work.

Rachel starts coughing like Betsy.

How does Lyddie arrange for Rachel to stay?

What is her worry about Rachel?

LyddieReading Chapter 17

LyddieDefinitions

despised: (131) looked down on

obliged: (131)

monstrous: (132) very ** think large…like a monster!

LyddieDefinitions

plaits: (134)

ignorant: (135)

skeptical: (136) disbelieving or doubting

LyddieDefinitions

What new words did you define?

LyddieLearning Objectives

I can synthesize textual evidence into reasons about why Lyddie should or should not sign the petition.

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

LyddieCreating Claims

Creating a Claim

Should Lyddie sign the petition or not?

• Take out the Forming Evidence Based Claims organizer from yesterday!

LyddieCreating Claims

Creating a Claim

• Meet your partner AT THE WEFT

• p. 139-140 Start: “How dry her life had been”

End: end of chapter

LyddieCreating Claims

Completing your organizerWork with your partner AT THE LOOM

1. Partner A read from excerpt aloud2. Partner B state the gist of the

paragraphs3. Switch!4. Add evidence BOTH organizers (for and against signing)

LyddieForming Evidence-Based ClaimsFocusing Question Why should Lyddie NOT sign the petition?

Detail from the Novel Detail from the Novel Detail from the Novel“Should you sign the petition, Betsy, they’ll dismiss you.” (91)

My thinking about this detail

My thinking about his detail

My thinking about this detail

In this chapter, Betsy is thinking about signing the petition. The quote reminds not only Betsy but also Lyddie that is if they sign the petition, they will probably get fired, and without the job, Lyddie will never reunite with her family.

Don’t

forget to

fill in what

it means!

LyddieCreating Claims

Creating a Claim

• Meet your partner AT THE WEFT

• p. 139-140 Start: “How dry her life had been”

End: end of chapter

LyddieCreating a Claim

Creating Claims/ Reasons!Evidence turns into reasons

• Look at organizers

• Think about the major reasons for and against signing

• 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“She was too tired now at night to copy out a page of Oliver to paste to her loom. It hardly mattered When would she have had time to study it?” (98)My thinking about this detail

My thinking about his detail

My thinking about this detail

In this chapter, the factory sped up the machines and Lyddie was working 14+ hours per day. She should sign so she won’t have to work that long or hard. Then she won’t be too tired to learn to read and enjoy a good book.

How is this quote & explanation related to other quotes?

LyddieForming Evidence-Based Claims

Reasons to Support Claim

1. work has speeded up and the workers are exhausted

2. they work very long hours

Write this big idea (reason) at the bottom of the organizer.

LyddieCreating a Claim

Creating Claims/ Reasons!Evidence turns into reasons

• Look at organizers

• Think about the major reasons for and against signing

• YOUR TURN!!

LyddieForming Evidence-Based Claims

Reasons to Support Claim(SHOULD SIGN)

1. work has speeded up and the workers are exhausted

2. they work very long hours3.

LyddieForming Evidence-Based Claims

Reasons to Support Claim(SHOULD NOT

SIGN)

1. Lyddie needs money for the farm and family

2.

LyddieEvidence = Reasons!

Turn-and-Talk

• Practice saying out loud an argument• Will help you get ideas for an essay• No writing!

LyddieEvidence = Reasons!

Turn-and-Talk

• Practice saying out loud an argument• Will help you get ideas for an essay• No writing!

Introduce the quote

In chapter _______, ___________

Analyze the quote

This shows that _____________

On page __________ it says, “________________________________________________________________________”

LyddieEvidence = Reasons!

Hand in Work

• Forming Evidence Based Claims• Make sure they are completed!

LyddieHomework

Homework• Read all of Chapters 18-19

• Complete Reader’s Notes Chapters 18-19

• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow!