This document provides reading materials and discussion questions about Chapter 11 of the novel Lyddie. It includes a summary of the chapter plot, definitions of new words, and a note-catcher for analyzing quotes about working conditions in the mills and how they affected the main character Lyddie. Students are instructed to continue filling in the note-catcher by analyzing additional quotes with a partner and to prepare for a test on Chapters 12-13.

1. DO NOW
Checking for Understanding
Entry Task Quiz!!
• On your own today!
• You MAY use your Notes
• You may NOT use the book 

2. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 11
Chapter Setting
11
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
How is life different for
Lyddie in the summer?
Why?
What does Lyddie buy?
Why?

3. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 11
Chapter Setting
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
11
Lyddie
Worthen
Lyddie enjoys her
evening reading with
Betsy, and goes to
church with Amelia.
How is life different for
Lyddie in the summer?
Why?
Concord
Corp.
factory
Betsy
Boarding
house
Amelia
(Lowell)
Diana Goss
Most of the girls go
home for the summer,
but Lyddie has to work.
Lyddie starts teaching
herself to read and buys What does Lyddie buy?
her own copy of Oliver
Why?
Twist.
Coming home from
church, she thinks she
sees Diana with a
handsome man.

4. Lyddie
Definitions
anticipation: (79)
grasp: (79)
honorable discharge: (81) leaving a place
of work with a good record

5. Lyddie
Definitions
blacklisted: (81)
engage: (81) hire
proficient: (81)

6. Lyddie
Definitions
What new words did you define?

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

8. Lyddie
Textual Evidence
Working Conditions Note-catcher
• Collect our ideas on Lyddie in one place
er
• Will help you for tomorrow’s TEST
• Let’s look at the first row together!!

9. Lyddie
Notice the
difference!
Textual Evidence
Row
Working
Condition
(from chart)
Detail/
Evidence
(quote)
1
Health,
“No one
Safety and
seemed to
Environment: mind the
deafening
Noise
din. How
could they
stand it?”
(62)
Explanation
(meaning of quote)
Analysis
What does quote show
about conditions and
workers?
This quote is from the
first time Lyddie goes
into the weaving room.
She is immediately
struck by how loud it is
– the looms and the
machinery make a lot of
noise. She also notices
that the other workers
don’t seem alarmed or
scared by the noise.
Lyddie is surprised that
the other workers are
not bothered by the
noise, which she
describes as an
“assault.”
Noise could be considered
a health hazard. It is so
loud that Lyddie can
barely hear Diana talk.
This kind of noise can
give workers headaches
and damage their ears.

10. Lyddie
Close Reading
Meet with shoulder partner!
• Use the anchor chart and Reader’s Notes!
• Continue filing in this chart
• Be prepared to share out!

11. Lyddie
Notice the
difference!
Textual Evidence
Row
2
Working
Condition
(from
chart)
Detail/
Evidence
(quote)
“How could
she say she
could see
hardly
anything in the
morning gloom
of the huge
barnlike room,
the very air a
soup of dust
and lint?”
(63)
Explanation
(meaning of quote)
Analysis
What does quote show
about conditions and
workers?

12. Lyddie
Notice the
difference!
Textual Evidence
Row
3
Working
Condition
(from
chart)
Detail/ Evidence
(quote)
“She [Lyddie] took
pride in her
strength, but it took
all of her might to
yank the metal lever
into place…Still, the
physical strength
the work required
paled beside the
dexterity needed to
rethread a shuttle
quickly, or, heaven
help her, tie one of
those internal
weaver’s knots.”
(65)
Explanation
(meaning of
quote)
Analysis
What does quote show
about conditions and
workers?

13. Lyddie
Notice the
difference!
Textual Evidence
Row
4
Working
Condition
(from
chart)
Detail/ Evidence
(quote)
“Now that she
thought of it, she
could hardly
breathe, the air
was so laden with
moisture and
debris.” (75)
Explanation
(meaning of
quote)
Analysis
What does quote show
about conditions and
workers?

14. Lyddie
Notice the
difference!
Textual Evidence
Row
5
Working
Condition
(from
chart)
Detail/ Evidence
(quote)
“Within five
minutes, her head
felt like a log being
split to splinters.
She kept shaking it,
as though she could
rid it of the noise,
or at least the
pain, but both only
seemed to grow
more intense.”
(75)
Explanation
(meaning of
quote)
Analysis
What does quote show
about conditions and
workers?

15. Lyddie
Notice the
difference!
Textual Evidence
Row
6
Working
Condition
(from
chart)
Detail/ Evidence
(quote)
“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)
Explanation
(meaning of
quote)
Analysis
What does quote show
about conditions and
workers?

16. Lyddie
Working Conditions
Working Conditions – Anchor Chart
• Been learning about mill work from book
• Video segments
• What new information did you learn?
** 19:15-20:35
44:41-45:15
49-50:45

17. Lyddie
Working Conditions
Working Conditions – Anchor Chart
• With your partner, add to the chart anything
you learned from the video segments
• Also add at least two questions
• Be prepared to share out!

18. Lyddie
Homework
Homework
• Read all of Chapters 12-13
• Complete Reader’s Notes Chapters 12-13
• Be prepared for a test tomorrow!