NYS Common Core 7th Grade ELA Module 2 Unit 1

1. DO NOW
Images Worksheet
• Look at three pictures (A, B, C)
• Read quote & match to a picture
• Describe the quote…can use your Notes!

6. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 8
Chapter Setting
Characters
8
Lyddie
Worthen
Lowell,
MA
Mrs. Bedlow
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
What does Amelia want
Lyddie to do on the
Sabbath? Why? How does
Lyddie feel about this?
Tim Bedlow
Betsy
Amelia Cate
Prudence
Allen
How does Mrs. Bedlow
help Lyddie?

7. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 8
Chapter Setting
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
8
Lyddie
Worthen
Lyddie wakes up in the
bustling boarding
house, and meets the
girls.
What does Amelia want
Lyddie to do on the
Sabbath? Why? How does
Lyddie feel about this?
Lowell,
MA
Mrs. Bedlow
Betsy
Amelia Cate
Prudence
Allen
She spent all her money
on new clothes, so she
can get a job. She
discovers she’ll have to
go to church to get a
job.
Mrs. Bedlow brings her
to an agent, and Lyddie
gets hired to work. She
later takes Lyddie to
the weaving room.
Amelia wants Lyddie to go to
church on the Sabbath.
Lyddie’s never gone to church
and feels Massachusetts
should be free, but finds out
to get a job she’ll have to go.
How does Mrs. Bedlow
help Lyddie?
She helps Lyddie get clothes
and introduces her to the
agent so Lyddie can get a job.

8. Lyddie
Definitions
din: (39) a loud noise that goes on for a
long time
distress: (56)
conscientious: (57) very thorough in
fulfilling responsibilities; caring about
doing one’s work

9. Lyddie
Definitions
complex: (58)
imposing: (59) large, impressive
**How is it like “foreboding” from Chapter 7?

10. Lyddie
Definitions
broadside: (60) a sheet of paper printed on
one or both sides; like a brochure but not
folded
What new words did you define?

11. Lyddie
Learning Objectives
By engaging in a discussion with my
partner, I can analyze one section of
Lyddie to deepen my understanding of
the plot, characters, and setting.

12. Lyddie
Learning Objectives
I can context clues – in sentences and on
the page – to determine the meaning of
unknown words.
I can cite specific textual evidence to
explain what working conditions were
like in the mills and how they affected
Lyddie.

13. Lyddie
Close Reading
Chapter 9
• What was happening at the very end of
Chapter 8?
• Image of a power loom! (19:36)

14. Lyddie
Close Reading
Chapter 9
• Read along as I read…page 62.
• Use your Reader’s Notes for: characters,
plot and setting

15. Lyddie
Close Reading
Chapter 9
• Re-read with your partner AT THE WEFT
threads.
• Pages 62…to the end of the chapter!
• Continue filling in the Reader’s Notes

16. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 9
Chapter Setting
9
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
Three things Lyddie
notices on her first day in
the weaving room about
the working conditions:
1.
2.
3.
Why do Lyddie’s roomates
tell her she should not go
see Diana?
How does Diana help
Lyddie?

17. Lyddie
Definitions
goods: (65) cloth
flaw: (65)
radical: (67) someone working for change,
especially as relates to society, the
economy or the government

18. Lyddie
Definitions
decipher: (66) read; make meaning of
something that’s hard to understand
infamous: (69)
operatives: (69)

19. Lyddie
Definitions
What new words did you define?

20. Lyddie
Anchor Chart
Working Conditions – Anchor Chart
• Three quotes to analyze with your partner
• Focus: Working Conditions in the factory
• I’ll show you how!

21. Lyddie
Anchor Chart
“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
these internal weaver’s knots.” (pg. 65)

22. Lyddie
Anchor Chart
Sentence #1:
Lyddie was proud of how strong she was, but it
took all her strength to move the lever.
“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
these internal weaver’s knots.” (pg. 65)

23. Lyddie
Sentence #2:
Compares the strength of the job to dexterity.
Dexterity is coordinated fine motor skills.
Anchor Chart “Paled” means not a bright…
…so must mean pulling the lever requires a lot of strength, but it is harder
to thread the shuttle or tie a knot.
“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
these internal weaver’s knots.” (pg. 65)

24. Lyddie
Working Conditions Chart
Will put new info under “Health, Safety
and Environment”
Hard to pull lever (takes
strength), and harder to thread
shuttle or tie knots.

25. Lyddie
Working Conditions Chart
Will put new wondering under questions
column of “Health, Safety and
Environment”
Is their work physically
demanding? Why?

26. Lyddie
Working Conditions Chart
YOUR Turn!
• Work with partner for next two quotes
1. Add the quote in the correct box
2. Add a question or “wondering” as well
Raise your hand when done to check your work!

27. Lyddie
Anchor Chart
“No one seemed to mind the deafening din.
How could they stand it?” (pg. 62)
“How could she say she could hardly see
anything in the morning gloom of the huge,
barnlike room, the very air a soup of dust
and lint?” (pg. 63)

28. Lyddie
Homework
Homework
• Read through the end of Chapter 9-10
• Complete Reader’s Notes Chapters 9-10
• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow!