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Checking for Understanding Entry Task QUIZ!!

• On your own today!• You MAY use your Notes• You may NOT use the book

Chapter

Setting Characters

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

3 Cutler’s tavern

Lyddie

Mistress Cutler

Triphena (the cook)

Lyddie arrives at the tavern and is amazed by the things she sees: the huge building, a stagecoach, a woman dressed in a fine dress, the kitchen.

Lyddie feels out of place because she’s dressed to poorly and the women are rude to her.

What do Triphena and Mistress Cutler think of Lyddie when she arrives?Mistress Cutler mistakes her for a beggar because Lyddie is dirty and dressed in her homemade clothes. Triphena says she is ugly.

What are the working conditions like in the tavern?Lyddie had to work hard, the mistress was tough on her, she slept in a hot, stuffy space, and she was often hungry.

LyddieReading Chapters 3-4

LyddieDefinitions

Check your packet and add:

tavern: (18) a bar & restaurant that also has hotel rooms

homespun: (20) made at home

garment: (23) a piece of clothing

LyddieDefinitions

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servitude: (23) being forced to obey someone else

comrade: (25) friend, especially someone who shares difficult work or circumstances

“inter” = between

LyddieDefinitions

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Chapter

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

4 Cutler’s Tavern

Lyddie

Mistress Cutler

Triphena

Willie

Hired men (Otis and Enoch)

Triphena begins to like Lyddie for her hard working attitude. She tells the frog story.

Charlie visits her. He is also working hard. Lyddie worries for him and the house.

Lyddie hears about rewards for turning in escaped slaves.

More work comes with the spring.

Describe Lyddie’s relationship with Triphena.Triphena is becoming nicer now that she sees Lyddie is a hard worker.

When Charlie comes to visit, how does Lyddie react?Lyddie wants to talk about important things with Charlie, but can’t with others around. She is worried about him being small & not eating enough.

How does spring change the work being done at the tavern?Now she has to take care of the animals, clarify syrup and mold it into fancy shaped sugar.

LyddieDefinitions

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mean: (27) not generous; stingy

secretive: (29) keeping one’s thoughts, actions or intentions hidden

calicoes: (29) lightweight cotton fabrics

LyddieDefinitions

anxieties: (31) worries

practiced skill: (32) special skill or knowledge you learn by training or experience

fugitive: (33) someone who is hiding from the authorities

LyddieDefinitions

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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.

LyddieDiscussion Appointments

NEXT TO THE SHUTTLE

Appointment!

LyddieDiscussion Appointments

Meet with a partner NEXT TO THE SHUTTLE

• Read along as we read Chapter 5

• Notice that Chapter 5 Notes already done for you!

• Pay attention on page # 38!!

LyddieDiscussion Appointments

Chapter 6 – Excerpt on page # 43

• Analyze the interaction between Ezekial and Lyddie

• Use “Thinkmarks” to write down words or phrases that show characters’ feelings and why he or she acts that way

LyddieDiscussion Appointments

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LyddieDiscussion Appointments

Text-Dependent Questions Worksheet:• Page # 43• Work with your partner• Answer in complete sentences!• Answer ALL questions• Raise your hand when done

Question Answer

1. The text says: “It was half the Stevenses’ calf by right’, she said, trying to diminish for both of them the enormity of what she had done” (43).

What do diminish and enormity mean? How do context clues help you figure that out?

What does this sentence help us to infer about how they are feeling?

LyddieText-Dependent Questions

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2. “She felt leaden with sadness” (43).

What does the word leaden mean? How do you know?

What is making her feel “leaden with sadness?”

LyddieText-Dependent Questions

Question Answer

3. Why did Lyddie give Ezekiel the money?

What character trait(s) does this show?

LyddieText-Dependent Questions

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4. Select one person to be Lyddie and one person to be Ezekial. Practice reading the dialogue on page # 43.

You should use what you have learned from this close read to bring the characters to life. Your voices should convey the feelings and thoughts of the characters.

LyddieText-Dependent Questions

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.

Fist to Five!

LyddieHomework

Homework• Finish reading Chapters 6-7

• Complete Reader’s Notes for Chapters 6-7

• Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow!