lyddie: lesson two, unit 1

DO NOW

Closely examine three pictures on next three slides.

Each is a setting in the book.

Answer questions on entry task!

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LyddieSetting

SettingThe time and place of a story

• What helped you match the description with the picture?

• Can you guess the time & place for Lyddie?

LyddieLearning Objectives

I can analyze how plot, character and setting interact in Lyddie.

I can use context clues – in a sentence and on a page – to determine the meaning of unknown words.

LyddieDefinitions

Copy into the back of your notebook:

setting: the time and place of a story

characters: people or animals who act in a story

plot: the sequence of events in a story

LyddieDefinitions

Copy into the back of your notebook:

interaction:

“inter” = between

LyddieDefinitions

Copy into the back of your notebook:

analyze: • to examine (look at) something

carefully; • to understand by looking at

something’s parts

Whose interaction did we analyze in A Long Walk to Water?

By Katherine Paterson

Lyddie

Look at the book cover:

What clues tell you that a person, not a place is the focus of the book?

By Katherine Paterson

Lyddie

Big questions for the book

What are working conditions?

Why do they matter?

Who creates them?

LyddieReader’s Notes Packet

Look at your Notes Packet

1. How are these similar to our notes in A Long Walk to Water?

2. How are they different?

Chapter

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

1 When Lyddie’s mother decides to go to her sister’s farm, what do Lyddie and Charlie do?

What does this show about Lyddie’s relationship with her mother and with her brother?

LyddieReading Chapters 1-3

LyddieRead Aloud

Reading the book!

Some chapters read in class… some chapters you’ll have to read on your own!

Will answer questions as we read!

Questions Answers

1. At the bottom of page 2, a sentence says:

“Could he in his frustration, take a mighty leap?”

Mighty is a word in your Reader’s Notes Packet. Use the definition to restate this sentence using a different word. *

* Rewrite the sentence using a synonym for “mighty.”

LyddieRead pages 1-3

Questions Answers

2. Lyddie is the main character in this book.

What have we learned about Lyddie from this story (so far)?

LyddieReading Pages 1-3

Questions Answers

3. On page 5, Lyddie describes her mother as “queer in the head.”

What does queer mean?

How do context clues help you figure it out?

What word(s) might we use today to describe Lyddie’s mother?

LyddiePages 4-7

Questions Answers

4. On page 6, the text states:“The only charity Lyddie dreaded more than Aunt Clarissa’s…”

Look at your Reader’s Notes page for the definition of charity.

Restate the sentence using a different word.

How do we use the word charity today?

How is this similar and different to how it is being used here?

LyddiePages 4-7

Questions Answers

5. On page 7, the text says:“She minded mightily begin beholden.”

Notice the word mightily, which is the adverb form of mighty.

What does beholden mean? How can you tell?

What is the connection between charity and beholden?

LyddiePages 4-7

Chapter

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

1 When Lyddie’s mother decides to go to her sister’s farm, what do Lyddie and Charlie do?

What does this show about Lyddie’s relationship with her mother and with her brother?

LyddieReader’s Packet

Chapter

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

1 FarmVermont 1843

Lyddie (13)Charlie (10)Rachel (6)Agnes (4)Mama

bearClarissaJudah

A bear comes into the cabin.

Lyddie keeps the family safe.

Mama, Rachel and Agnes leave to live with Judah and Clarissa.

When Lyddie’s mother decides to go to her sister’s farm, what do Lyddie and Charlie do?

What does this show about Lyddie’s relationship with her mother and with her brother?

LyddieReader’s Packet

LyddieIndependent Reading

Reading Lyddie - high school style!

Step 1: Read at home

Step 2: Work in class to better understand what you read.

Step 3: Daily Do Now quiz on last night’s reading (Can use Notes, but not the book!)

LyddieIndependent Reading

What can you do to read well on your own?

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LyddieIndependent Reading

How will reading carefully and having strong Reader’s Notes help you on the Do Now quizzes?

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LyddieHomework

Homework• Finish reading to the end of Chapter 2

• Complete Reader’s Notes for Chapters 1-2

• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow!