Questions Answers The text says: though 2. Listen for students to say: means the of of the machine “Even “Bowels ‘innards’ Diana had stopped the loom, the machine. The author is talking about the physical location where Lyddie stood rubbing the hands must go, but she is also comparing the loom to a beast. This Lyddie’s powder into her fingertips, helps give a sense of nervousness and her worry that the machines Lyddie’s hesitating to plunge her hands might get the best of her.” into the bowels of the Working Conditions note card: The looms were powerful and could injure (75). workers if they machine” weren’t careful. What does the phrase bowels of the Prompting and probing questions: machine mean? means like your intestines and stomach. Does a “Bowels ‘inner organs,’ Personifying is to give the machine have organs? What might be inside it?” characteristics of a person or does Paterson use a word usually used to describe a person or animal “Why animal to a non-living object. to describe a machine?” What is Paterson personifying? Why does she do this? Which Working Conditions note card best explains what this quote helps the reader understand about life and work? Lyddie’s Questions Answers in the 3. Listen for students to say: means very A “Her quiet meals “Meager ‘deficient, scant, little.’ corner of the kitchen with bowl of bark soup does not sound like a lot of food. implies a meal Feast Triphena, even her that you relish and enjoy, and Lyddie enjoyed her quiet meals with less food meager bowls of bark soup with the more than the noisy, rushed meals with lots of food.” seldom talkative Charlie, Working Conditions note card: Workers lived and ate in crowded, noisy seemed like feasts compared boardinghouses. to the huge, rushed, noisy Prompting and probing questions: affairs in Mrs. Bedlow’s
Questions Answers The text says: “Even though Diana had stopped the loom, Lyddie stood rubbing the powder into her fingertips, hesitating to plunge her hands into the bowels of the machine” (75). What does the phrase bowels of the machine mean? Personifying is to give the characteristics of a person or animal to a non-living object. What is Paterson personifying? Why does she do this? Which Working Conditions note card best explains what this quote helps the reader understand about Lyddie’s life and work? 2. Listen for students to say: “Bowels of the machine means the ‘innards’ of the machine. The author is talking about the physical location where Lyddie’s hands must go, but she is also comparing the loom to a beast. This helps give a sense of Lyddie’s nervousness and her worry that the machines might get the best of her.” Working Conditions note card: The looms were powerful and could injure workers if they weren’t careful. Prompting and probing questions: “Bowels means ‘inner organs,’ like your intestines and stomach. Does a machine have organs? What might be inside it?” “Why does Paterson use a word usually used to describe a person or animal to describe a machine?” Questions Answers “Her quiet meals in the corner of the kitchen with Triphena, even her meager bowls of bark soup with the seldom talkative Charlie, seemed like feasts compared to the huge, rushed, noisy affairs in Mrs. Bedlow’s 3. Listen for students to say: “Meager means ‘deficient, scant, very little.’ A bowl of bark soup does not sound like a lot of food. Feast implies a meal that you relish and enjoy, and Lyddie enjoyed her quiet meals with less food more than the noisy, rushed meals with lots of food.” Working Conditions note card: Workers lived and ate in crowded, noisy boardinghouses. Prompting and probing questions: