the Industrial Revolution well and through the choices she made was able to pull past just being a factory girl and take different paths in life. File Name: I6R Choices Lyddie’s Informative/Explanatory Grade 6 Range of Writing Choices Lyddie’s Lyddie Worthen is the main character in Lyddie is Lyddie. Katherine Patterson’s a young girl living on a Vermont farm in the This is the time of the Industrial 1840’s. Revolution. father has abandoned the family and mother leaves her Lyddie’s Lyddie’s and her brother behind thinking that the world is coming to an end. The only thing Lyddie has left is her farm which she desperately wants to hold on to. In order to keep her farm Lyddie has to work off the debts on her farm, but the job she has paying isn’t enough, so she leaves to begin a new life as a factory girl at the newly developed textile mills in Lowell Massachusetts. Because of working in the Lowell mills Lyddie gets a broader sense of herself. She is able to make some choices about who she wants to be in her life.
the Industrial Revolution well and through the choices she made was able to pull past just being a factory girl and take different paths in life. File Name: I6R Lyddie’s Choices Informative/Explanatory Grade 6 Range of Writing Lyddie’s Choices Lyddie Worthen is the main character in Katherine Patterson’s Lyddie. Lyddie is a young girl living on a Vermont farm in the 1840’s. This is the time of the Industrial Revolution. Lyddie’s father has abandoned the family and Lyddie’s mother leaves her and her brother behind thinking that the world is coming to an end. The only thing Lyddie has left is her farm which she desperately wants to hold on to. In order to keep her farm Lyddie has to work off the debts on her farm, but the job she has isn’t paying enough, so she leaves to begin a new life as a factory girl at the newly developed textile mills in Lowell Massachusetts. Because of working in the Lowell mills Lyddie gets a broader sense of herself. She is able to make some choices about who she wants to be in her life.
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