IN this lesson, students will begin to focus on working conditions in the mill and how they affect Lyddie. They will add both evidence about working conditions in the mills and questions about working conditions in the garment industry today to the Working Conditions anchor chart.
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In this lesson, students will analyze how plot, character, and setting interact in Lyddie.
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In this lesson, students are introduced to several new routines to support them in their reading of Lyddie. Students will learn how to use Readers' Notes to complete the daily Checking for Understanding entry task, as well as strategies students might use to make meaning of this text when reading for homework.
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This lesson serves as the culminating discussion of Lyddie.
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In this lesson, students revise their Lyddie essay.
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In this lesson, students are introduced to several new routines to support them in their reading of Lyddie
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In this lesson, students continue to analyze working conditions in the mill and how they affect Lyddie.
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In this lesson, students closely read and discuss pages 62-66 of Lyddie.
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In this lesson, students begin the draft of their essay about Lyddie. The lesson also includes peer critique.
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In this lesson, students begin the writing process for the End of Unit 1 Assessment, an argument essay on Lyddie.
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In this lesson, students reread the final passage listed on Lyddie’s Decision: Passages to Reread chart. Students then synthesize the evidence they have gathered to create reasons why Lyddie should and should not sign the petition.
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In this lesson, students gather and analyze textual evidence about why Lyddie should or should not sign the petition.
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In this lesson, students begin to read Lyddie, the central text of Unit 1.
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In this lesson, students finish the draft of their essay about Lyddie signing the petition.
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In this lesson, students are introduced to and discuss the question about which they will be writing their essay: Should Lyddie sign the petition?
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In this lesson, students will engage with questions of identity, independence, and freedom. Students will focus on character traits and how they shape events and other characters.
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This lesson includes the Mid-Unit 1 Assessment.
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In this lesson, students start a Writing Improvement Tracker that they will return to after writing the essay in each module for the rest of the year.
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In this lesson, students analyze the model argument essay in more depth.
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In this lesson, students work in pairs to analyze the text.
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