1. DO NOW
Checking for Understanding
Entry Task!!
• You MAY use your Notes
• You may NOT use the book
2. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 14
Chapter Setting
14
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
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?
3. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 14
Chapter Setting
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
14
Lyddie
Worthen
Amelia quits. Lyddie
goes back to work 3
days after her accident.
Why does Betsy leave the
mill?
Concord
Corp.
factory
Boarding
house
Mr. Marsden
(overseer)
Amelia
(Lowell)
Betsy
Diana
Lyddie has to train
Brigid, an Irish girl. She
is not a patient teacher. How does Lyddie feel
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.
about training Brigid?
How do her actions show
this?
What does Luke Stevens
bring to Lyddie?
5. Lyddie
Definitions
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)
6. Lyddie
Definitions
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?
7. Lyddie
Learning 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.
8. Lyddie
Chapter 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?
12. Lyddie
Creating Claims
Creating a Claim
• Look at BOTH sides!
• Turn to page 91: “We’re all working like…”
• Let’s read it together!
13. Lyddie
Creating Claims
AT THE CLOSED WINDOW partner!
• Worth together on the Text-Dependent
Questions
• Notice the page numbers to help you!
14. Lyddie
Textual Evidence
Questions
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?
Answers
15. Lyddie
Textual Evidence
Questions
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?
Answers
16. Lyddie
Creating Claims
Form a Claim
• Need evidence: quote from text
• Need to explain your thoughts
• Let me show you!!
17. Lyddie
Forming Evidence-Based Claims
Focusing Question
Why should Lyddie sign the petition?
Detail from the Novel
Detail from the Novel
Detail from the Novel
My thinking about his
detail
My thinking about this
detail
“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
18. Lyddie
Forming Evidence-Based Claims
Focusing Question
Why should Lyddie sign the petition?
Detail from the Novel
Detail from the Novel
Detail from the Novel
My thinking about his
detail
My thinking about this
detail
“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
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.
19. Lyddie
Creating 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!