Download - Lyddie: Lesson three, Unit 1
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Checking for Understanding Entry Task QUIZ!!
• Try # 1
• You MAY use your Notes
• You may NOT use the book
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.
LyddieLearning 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.
Chapter
Setting Characters
Plot How do the setting, character and/ or plot interact?
1 Farm in Vermont1843
Lyddie (13)Charlie (10)Rachel (6)Agnes (4)Mama
bearClarissaJudah
Bear comes into the cabin. Lyddie keeps them safe.
Mama, Rachael & Agnes leave to live with Judah and Clarissa.
Lyddie & Charlies take care of themselves through the winter. They have a calf in the spring. Lyddie feels hopeful.
Mama sends them a letter saying they have to work to pay off the debts to the farm. The farm will be rented out. Lyddie is crushed.
When Lyddie’s mother decides to go to her sister’s farm, what do Lyddie and Charlie do?
Lyddie decides to stay and take care of the farm against her mother’s wishes. It shows she’s independent, and her relationship with her mother is not typical. Lyddie is like the mother in her family.
Charlie decides to stay with Liddies because he doesn’t want her to be alone. They have a caring relationship.
LyddieReading Chapters 1-3
Question Answer
1. Near the end of Chapter 1, Charlie and Lyddie get a letter from their mother.
How does this letter change Charlie and Lyddie’s plans?
Lyddie and Charlie were planning on staying on the farm and working the land, but their other hires them out as workers to pay off the farm debt. Charlie is going to a mill, and Lyddie is going to a tavern.
LyddieChecking for Understanding
Chapter
Setting Characters Plot How do the setting, character and/ or plot interact?
2 Lyddie’s farm inVermont
Stevens family farm(Vermont)
LyddieCharlie
Stevens family(Quaker family who live next door)*Mr. Stevens*Mrs. Stevens*sons*Luke Stevens (youngest son)
Lyddie & Charlie decide to sell the calf & save the money for the farm.
Mr. Stevens gives them a good price, even though it was from his bull. He invites them to dinner & offers them a ride to the village.
While Luke is giving them a ride, he offers to look after their house. Lyddie does not want to accept their help, but Charlie is grateful. Luke then tells Lyddie he’ll look after Charlie.
What happened to Lyddie and Charlie’s father? How does that affect their plans?
Their father was unlucky and made bad business decisions. He worked hard, though. He left but promised to come back. Lyddie and Charlie save the money so he can have it when he comes back.
Name two ways the Stevens family helps Lyddie and Charlie.• Offer to buy the calf for
a good price,• Give Lyddie and Charlie
dinner and a ride• Offer to look after the
farm.• Luke offers to watch
Charlie
Question Answer
2. Chapter 2 is titled “Kindly Neighbors.”
Who are the neighbors?
Are they kind to Charlie and Lyddie?
** Use evidence to support your claim.
Lyddie’s neighbors are the Stevens family. They are kind because they offer to do several helpful things. They buy the calf for a good price, and they give Lyddie and Charlie dinner and a ride to their jobs. They also offer to look after the cabin during the winter.
LyddieChecking for Understanding
Question Answer
3. When Luke Stevens offered his hand to help Lyddie into the wagon, she “pretended not to see. She couldn’t have the man thinking she was a child or a helpless female” (15). When he offers to take care of her house in the winter, she says, “No need” (16). After Luke offers to keep an eye on Charlie, she “didn’t know whether to be pleased or annoyed” (17). How does Lyddie feel about accepting help from Luke? What character trait does this show?
LyddieChecking for Understanding
Question Answer
3. When Luke Stevens offered his hand to help Lyddie into the wagon, she “pretended not to see. She couldn’t have the man thinking she was a child or a helpless female” (15). When he offers to take care of her house in the winter, she says, “No need” (16). After Luke offers to keep an eye on Charlie, she “didn’t know whether to be pleased or annoyed” (17). How does Lyddie feel about accepting help from Luke? What character trait does this show?
Lyddie didn’t like accepting help from Luke or anyone in the Stevens family. This shows she is independent and a little stubborn.
LyddieChecking for Understanding
Fist to Five:
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LyddieDefinitions
Check your packet and add:
mighty: (2) strong, big, impressive
anxious: (4) worried
queer: (5) strange, difficult to explain; “queer in the head” means a little crazy
“inter” = between
LyddieDefinitions
Check your packet and add:
charity: (6) help or gifts given to people in need
beholden: (7) to feel you have a duty to someone because they have done something for you (owe them)
LyddieDefinitions
What new words did you define?
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LyddieDefinitions
Check your packet and add:
dubious: (10) doubtful or uncertain
noxious: (13) poisonous or harmful
transaction: (14) business deal or action
LyddieDefinitions
Check your packet and add:
loom: (14) a machine that weaves thread into cloth that can be run by hand or powered by a machine (waterwheel, electricity, etc.)
fallow: (16) unused
LyddieDefinitions
Check your packet and add:
gaping: (17) very big and wide
What words did you find?•
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Discussion Appointments
Lyddie
Don’t forget:
• Write in the SAME
line
• MUST say yes if
asked
• Pick people that will
help your grade!!
LyddieDiscussion Appointments
Meet with a partner AT THE LOOM
Will start homework for tonight together
Open to Chapter 3
Read three pages silently
LyddieDiscussion Appointments
Raise your hand if you:
• Reread a passage or sentence
• Tried to figure out a new word
• Make a picture/movie in your mind as you
read
• Asked yourself a question
• Imagined how Lyddie was feeling
LyddieDiscussion Appointments
Turn to Page # 18
Read in your head as I read aloud
…listen as I think through the tough parts….
LyddieDiscussion Appointments
What did you notice me doing?
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LyddieDiscussion Appointments
Discuss with your partner:
1. What has happened so far in this chapter?
2. What did these strategies help us understand about the text?
LyddieDiscussion Appointments
Read silently
Read to the end of page 24
Put your sticky note on a place where you needed to re-read (sentence or paragraph)
LyddieDiscussion Appointments
What parts did you re-read? Why?
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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
Big Hint!!!!
Pay attention to the woman in the fancy dress who will put some very important thoughts into Lyddie’s head at the end of the chapter!!
Read that part very carefully!
LyddieDiscussion Appointments
With partner, discuss:
1. What have you learned about Lyddie so far?
2. What seems important to her?
LyddieHomework
Homework• Finish reading Chapters 3-4
• Complete Reader’s Notes for Chapters 3-4
• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow!