DO NOW

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.

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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.

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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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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

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Check your packet and add:

gaping: (17) very big and wide

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Discussion Appointments

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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

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Turn to Page # 18

Read in your head as I read aloud

…listen as I think through the tough parts….

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What did you notice me doing?

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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)

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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!