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Images Worksheet

• Look at three pictures (A, B, C)

• Read quote & match to a picture

• Describe the quote…can use your

Notes!

A

B

C

AB

C

Chapter

Setting Characters

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

8 Lowell, MA

Lyddie Worthen

Mrs. Bedlow

Tim Bedlow

Betsy

Amelia Cate

Prudence Allen

What does Amelia want Lyddie to do on the Sabbath? Why? How does Lyddie feel about this?

How does Mrs. Bedlow help Lyddie?

LyddieReading Chapter 8

Chapter

Setting Characters

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

8 Lowell, MA

Lyddie Worthen

Mrs. Bedlow

Betsy

Amelia Cate

Prudence Allen

Lyddie wakes up in the bustling boarding house, and meets the girls.

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.

What does Amelia want Lyddie to do on the Sabbath? Why? How does Lyddie feel about this?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.

LyddieReading Chapter 8

LyddieDefinitions

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

LyddieDefinitions

complex: (58)

imposing: (59) large, impressive

**How is it like “foreboding” from Chapter 7?

LyddieDefinitions

broadside: (60) a sheet of paper printed on one or both sides; like a brochure but not folded

What new words did you define?

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.

LyddieLearning 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.

LyddieClose Reading

Chapter 9

• What was happening at the very end of Chapter 8?

• Image of a power loom! (19:36)

LyddieClose Reading

Chapter 9

• Read along as I read…page 62.

• Use your Reader’s Notes for: characters, plot and setting

LyddieClose 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

Chapter

Setting Characters

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

9 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?

LyddieReading Chapter 9

LyddieDefinitions

goods: (65) cloth

flaw: (65)

radical: (67) someone working for change, especially as relates to society, the economy or the government

LyddieDefinitions

decipher: (66) read; make meaning of something that’s hard to understand

infamous: (69)

operatives: (69)

LyddieDefinitions

What new words did you define?

LyddieAnchor Chart

Working Conditions – Anchor Chart

• Three quotes to analyze with your partner

• Focus: Working Conditions in the factory

• I’ll show you how!

LyddieAnchor 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)

LyddieAnchor 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)

Sentence #1: Lyddie was proud of how strong she was, but it took all her strength to move the

lever.

LyddieAnchor 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)

Sentence #2: Compares the strength of the job to dexterity.

Dexterity is coordinated fine motor skills.“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.

LyddieWorking 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.

LyddieWorking Conditions Chart

Will put new wondering under questions column of “Health, Safety and Environment”

Is their work physically demanding? Why?

LyddieWorking Conditions Chart

YOUR Turn!• Work with partner for next two quotes

1. Add the quote in the correct box2. Add a question or “wondering” as well

Raise your hand when done to check your

work!

LyddieAnchor 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)

LyddieHomework

Homework• Read through the end of Chapter 9-10

• Complete Reader’s Notes Chapters 9-10

• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow!