NYS Common Core 7th Grade ELA Module 2, Unit 1

1. DO NOW
Entry Task – Checking for Understanding
Quiz!!
• Can use your Reader’s Notes
• Can NOT use your book 

2. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 20
Chapter Setting
20
Characters
Plot
How do the
setting, character and/ or
plot interact?
What are some ways that
Lyddie helps Brigid? How
does this affect Lyddie?
How does it affect Brigid?

3. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 20
Chapter Setting
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
20
Lyddie
Worthen
Life at the factory is ok
for Lyddie, who keeps
practicing reading and
writing. She starts
teaching Brigid to read.
What are some ways that
Lyddie helps Brigid? How
does this affect Lyddie?
How does it affect Brigid?
Concord
Corp.
factory
Brigid
(Lowell)
Mr. Marsden
She still won’t answer
Luke’s letter.
Lyddie finds out that
her mother died, but
has no real reaction.
Lyddie finds Mr.
Marsden attacking
Brigid and douses him
with a bucket of water.

4. Lyddie
Definitions
scrupulous: (155)
yoke: (156)
** Not the egg!
begrudge: (158) to feel angry or upset
with someone because they have something
you feel they don’t deserve

5. Lyddie
Definitions
tumult: (159)
sedate: (159)
hulking: (160)
** Think about the HULK!

6. Lyddie
Definitions
What new words did you define?

7. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 21
Chapter Setting
21
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
Why was Lyddie fired?
According to the agent
and the overseer?
According to her?
What does this encounter
tell you about workers’
rights in the mills?

8. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 21
Chapter Setting
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
21
Lyddie
Worthen
Lyddie is nervous the
next day, especially
when she finds out
Brigid is fired.
Why was Lyddie fired?
According to the agent
and the overseer?
According to her?
Concord
Corp.
factory
Mr. Marsden
(Lowell)
Mr. Graves
(agent)
Mr. Marsden reports
Lyddie for being a
troublemaker and
having “moral
turpitude.” (shameful
or disgusting actions)
Lyddie is fired and
“blacklisted.”
What does this encounter
tell you about workers’
rights in the mills?

9. Lyddie
Definitions
searing: (162)
** Think frying pan!
trespassed: (164)
distressing: (165)

10. Lyddie
Definitions
cackle: (164)
** Think witch!
solemn: (167)
benumbed: (168)

11. Lyddie
Definitions
What new words did you define?

12. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 22
Chapter Setting
22
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
How does Lyddie respond
to being fired? What does
she do to protect Brigid?
Why is Mrs. Bedlow
surprised that Lyddie was
fired?
What is moral turpitude?

13. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 22
Chapter Setting
Characters
Plot
22
Boarding
house
Lyddie
Worthen
Brigid’s
house in
the Acre
(Lowell)
Mrs. Bedlow
Lyddie tells Mrs. Bedlow How does Lyddie respond
she’ll be leaving.She
to being fired? What does
buys a dictionary to find she do to protect Brigid?
out what “turpitude”
is.
Brigid
Mr. Marsden
Boston
Diana Goss
Vermont
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
Lyddie visits Brigid in
the Acre to tell her that Why is Mrs. Bedlow
surprised that Lyddie was
she wrote a letter to
Marsden threatening to fired?
tell his wife about him
if Brigid is fired. She
confronts Marsden to
threaten him in person.
What is moral turpitude?
She goes to Boston to
visit Diana, then travels
to Vermont.

14. Lyddie
Definitions
incredulous: (170)
parcels: (171)
gingerly: (174)
** Ginger is a spice!

15. Lyddie
Definitions
dilute: (173)
vile: (171) immoral or evil; can also be
used informally to mean very unpleasant or
bad.

16. Lyddie
Definitions
What new words did you define?

17. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 23
Chapter Setting
23
Characters
Plot
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
Why does Lyddie return to
the tavern?
Why does Lyddie go back
to the farm? What
connection do you think it
will have to her future?
Why?

18. Lyddie
Reading Chapter 23
Chapter Setting
Characters Plot
23
Lyddie
Worthen
Vermont
November
1846
Triphena
Cutler’s
Tavern
Luke
Stevens
How do the setting,
character and/ or plot
interact?
Lyddie visits Triphena at Why does Lyddie return to
Cutler’s Tavern. She
the tavern?
hopes to get a job
there, but realizes she
wouldn’t fit in anyway.
She goes to the mill to
visit Charlie and Rachel, Why does Lyddie go back
to the farm? What
but they are at school.
She finally goes to her
old house. It looks
well-kept and she goes
in. Luke shows up.
Lyddie decides to go to
college. She might
come back to marry
Luke in the future.
connection do you think it
will have to her future?
Why?

19. Lyddie
Definitions
monstrosities: (177)
* What word is inside it?
pang: (177)
homely: (179)

20. Lyddie
Definitions
content: (179)
** content vs. content…
crinkled: (182)

21. Lyddie
Definitions
crumpled: (182)
What new words did you define?

22. Lyddie
Learning Objectives
I can effectively engage in discussions with
my classmates about the characters, setting
and plot in Lyddie.
I can analyze Lyddie’s character traits by
citing specific evidence and recognizing
patterns from the beginning, middle and end
of the novel.

23. Lyddie
Character Traits
Think-Pair-Share
• Given her character traits and the way she
reacts to adversity, what will happen to
her?
• What hints does the author give us in the
last chapters?

24. Lyddie
Character Traits
World Café
• What can YOU do to make sure conversation
helps everyone in your group analyze how
Lyddie’s character traits developed
throughout the book?
• Raise your hand when you think of TWO!

25. Lyddie
Character Traits
World Café
• Bring folders with notes/ organizers with
you!
• One person records
• All discuss & recorder write it down

26. Lyddie
Character Traits
World Café
#1
The book opens with Lyddie staring down a real bear. This
foreshadows the way she deals with the symbolic “bears” she
encounters throughout the novel. (examples)
What do the symbolic “bears” have in common with the real bear?
What character traits does Lyddie have that let her successfully
“stare down” each “bear” she encounters? Include specific
examples from different parts of the book to support your
thinking.

27. Lyddie
Character Traits
World Café
• Recorder…STAY PUT
• Everyone else move to another station
• Recorder: share your ideas
• Pick a new recorder

28. Lyddie
Character Traits
World Café
#2
Over the course of the book, Lyddie tells Ezekial, her co-workers,
and herself that she, “ain’t a slave.” Yet, at times, she doubts if
this is true.
Is Lyddie free at the factory? (pg. 94, 91, 58)
Is Lyddie free at the end of the book? (pg. 178, 182)
What does freedom mean to Lyddie? Does her definition change
throughout the book?

29. Lyddie
Character Traits
World Café
• Recorder…STAY PUT
• Everyone else move to another station
• Recorder: share your ideas
• Pick a new recorder

30. Lyddie
Character Traits
World Café
#3
After Rachel and Diane leave, Lyddie feels a heavy heart (148),
but she tells herself it is better, “not to carry the burden of debt
or, what was worse, the welfare of other persons.” (156) At the
end she reminds herself, “Don’t you know better than to tie
yourself to some other living soul?” (181)
How has Lyddie tied herself to other characters? (Brigid, Charlie,
Rachel, Luke, co-workers) How has she refused?
Do you think Lyddie should sacrifice some of her independence
and tie herself to others in the future? Why or why not?

31. Lyddie
Character Traits
World Café
• Recorder…STAY PUT
• Everyone else move to another station
• Recorder: share your ideas
• Add last idea to your paper…

32. Lyddie
Writing Argument
Exit Ticket
• List Lyddie’s character traits on lines
• Characters traits = aspects (parts) of a
character’s personality
(…greedy, kind, loving, impatient…)

33. Lyddie
Homework
Homework
• Answer questions in a paragraph each!!
• Introduction Sentence
A
• Cite evidence/ quote
C
• Explain your quote
E