Create a 4 x 4 summary of what we have read so far. A literary 4 x 4 summary is creating a literary analysis using 4 sentences that contain 4 words in each sentence.
Our literary 4 x 4 will use the following:
- complete sentences (or really STRONG phrases)
- effective word order
- strong words, especially verbs and adjectives
An effective literary 4 x 4 may also use the following:
- abstract nouns
- contractions using “is”
A literary 4 x 4 will not use the following:
- repeated words
- pronouns
- cliches
My examples:
- A Lesson Before Dying
- Life in the South.
- White over Black rules
- Death sentence for man
or
- Wrong Place, Wrong Time
- Grant is to die
- Mr. Grope is killed
- Death sentence for “Hog”
or
- A HOG or MAN?
- Jefferson helps Grant learn
- Restoring dignity is key
- Blacks are important people
or
- To LIVE or die?
- Like man or hog
- World needs to change
- All men are men
Put your 4 x 4 in reply box.
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Grant the snob: teacher.
Ms. Emma, the faker.
Tante, doesn’t like no.
Jefferson, Hog to Man.
A Lesson Before Dying
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Twelve White Men Jurors
Black Man Convicted Guilty
A hog is sentenced
Before civil rights movement
If you were black
You waited to die
Grant is the Protagonist.
teacher of a school
Intelligent willful, but hypocritical
Wants to escape South.
In 1940s at Bayonne.
South rule by whites.
Blacks fear the whites.
No respect for blacks.
Dark skin and poor.
Hog or a man?
Treated as an animal.
Black are people too.
There was a case.
Miss Emma is crying.
Jefferson or the hog
Is about to die.
Wrong place wrong time
Three men are dead
They witness Jefferson sentence
Death sentence for Jefferson
A lesson before Dying
White over Black rules
Black is not honored
Power is very important
Justice is not justice
Life is not perfect
Wishes don’t come true
Live well, Die hard
Treated like a Hog
Not worthy to live
Cant be like men
Die with all honor
Are men all equal?
Not in the South
Black being treated unequally
We need to change
A hog is sentenced
Before civil rights movement
If you were black
You waited to die
A teacher is helping
Or at least trying
But he doesn’t care
If Jefferson is crying
Jefferson doesn’t want chicken
He wants his freedom
Ms Emma cries deeply
He doesn’t eat them.
His friends ran away
He decided to stay
His friends got death
He stayed for wealth
A Lesson Before Dying
A HOG or MAN?
Wrong Place,Wrong time
Jefferson Help Grant Learn
Dying is a feeling when someone experiencing depression or negative thoughts or actions. At times I think negative and going through tough times, but what keep me going is the people that is important to me. If I give up now, everything that I accomplish would be for nothing. I would rather live and do what’s right, then do the opposite.
A man is a person that take his responsibility very seriously. A man that act with wisdom and courage. A man that will put food on the table for his love ones. What does it take to be a man? Dedication, commitment, good character, and responsibility.
Time is something that is precious to each and every individual. In the beginning of my senior year, I had been putting more time in my school work then I ever had, because this is the year when everything counts. What are you going to do after high school, are you going to college, or are you going to work at McDonald all your life? I am doing okay with school, but I need to look at what college I would like to attend. I like J.R.O.T.C., doing community service, or being more involve, but whats the best for me is important then everything.
Learning is something everyone is doing everyday. In school, at work, at a restaurant, everywhere. In order to be consider educated, a person would need to learn how to read and write. If you can’t learn or willing to do so. It would be harder to learn everything no matter how hard you try. Learning is a life long experience.
A Lesson Before Dying
Louisiana in the 1940s
A wrongfully convicted man
Wrong place, wrong time
White over Black people
White humulating the Black
Walking through the back
Not worthy of front
Miss Emma – Tante Lou
loving, old, restless godmother
controlling, demanding, rude, aunt
forcing Grant to teach
Grant the school teacher
Teaching ungrateful little children
They play with bugs
Goofing while cutting wood
Does Life Have Meaning
Die Like A Man
Death of Mr. Grope
Don’t Get Any Respect
Teach To Change Lives
Cry After Each Visit
Sweet Potatoes And Chicken
Jefferson starve to death
Corn For The Hog
Change For The Inmates
Irene The Substitute Teacher
Deputies Paul And Clark
Black vs. White, Racism
Defender In Case Attempts
Alternates Cynicism and Confidence
Life Sentenced, Electric Chair
&
Identity, Beliefs, and Convictions
Reading, Writing, and ‘Rithmetic
Too Late to Apologize
There’s No Life Here
&
Forget About Life Now
Days In Committee Room
Life In Jail Cell
Live Life To Fullest
&
Important Component Of Dignity
Who made them God?
The Level Of Beasts
Was Supposed To Be
A Lesson Before Dying
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Twelve White Men Jurors
Black Man Convicted Guilty
Does Life Have Meaning
Die Like A Man
Death of Mr. Grope
Don’t Get Any Respect
Teach To Change Lives
Cry After Each Visit
Sweet Potatoes And Chicken
Jefferson starve to death
Corn For The Hog
Change For The Inmates
Irene The Substitute Teacher
Deputies Paul And Clark
Innocent man got committed to death for something he didn’t do.
Don’t be in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Never think you are worth less than someone.
Justice can be injustice.
Judgement based on color.
Jefferson will be unjustly sacrificed.
Grant the teacher gets forced by his aunt to participate in something he doesn’t want.
White Opinion is considered true over Black opinion.
How thankful a White can be with a Black that served his family since he has memory.
– A lesson before dying
– Down with the black
– I’aint raise no hog
– I raised a man
or
– she is average height,
– five four, five five
– nearly two hundred pounds
– white man’s been killed
– Boy Boy Boy Boy
or
– He wanted to run
– He could not run
– A fool is not aware
– You see a man
or
– Look at that skull,
– His face is flat
– Look into those eyes
– Do you see intelligence
Electric chair is death
Die like a man
Black teacher helps Jefferson
Jefferson judgment was unfair
Jefferson will be electrify
Jefferson is a hog
Grant’s lessons are good
Wrong place, wrong time
Man sentenced to death
Whites rules over black
white opinion is important
sheriff helps Ms. Emma
Grant went visit Jefferson
Ms. Emma need help
Sheriff accepted Grant’s visits
Ms. Emma is sad
Wrong place, wrong time.
Liquor store shoot out.
Three men were killed.
Death sentence for jefferson.
Christ knocking on door.
Classroom was the church.
5.5 months of school .
Children needed in field.
A way of life.
Just a old hog .
Hog don’t eat candy.
Your a human being.
A white man died.
Black man is trailed.
Told he’s a hog.
Jefferson will be sacrificed.
A Lesson Before Dying
Death sentence for “hog”
Segregation in the south
Catholic School for children
Grant’s respects his aunt
The town of Bayonne
Pecan Trees Down the Roads
Jefferson day of death
The “White Rabbit Bar”
Brother, Bear, and Grope
The death of Mr.Grope
Winter’s load of wood
Grant Higgin’s Mullato Teacher
Mr.Henri Pichot’s House
Dr.Joseph’s visit to school
Grant’s love for Vvivian
Jefferson is sentenced death.
A Lesson Before Dying.
Miss Emma cooks Jefferson food.
Grant is Jefferson’s teacher.
Grant to teach Jefferson
Vivian love some Grant
Racism is still active
Black man falsely accused
Miss Emma is Humble
Tante Lou respects Emma
Jefferson acts like hog
Miss Emma sad visits
Grant had mean teacher
Grant is mean teacher
Will grant become man
Jefferson to be electrocuted
Will Jefferson really die
Grant demoralized during visits
Henry Pichot respects Emma
Grant is very educated
my name is grant.
ms emma loves jefferson.
jefferson is very bitter.
grant is a educator.
i am ms emma.
a lesson before dying.
they have racist people.
i am grant wiggins.
we respect tante lou.
guidry is in charge.
paul listens to guidry.
henri pichot is stubborn.
jefferson was called hog.
hogs are wild animals.
wild animals are dirty
jefferson isn’t a animal
My name is Jefferson.
I’m called a hog.
I’m accused of murder.
I don’t deserve this.
Miss Emma is my godmother.
Is in bad health.
Visits me in jail.
Brings her good cooking.
Grant is the professor.
Wants to getaway fast.
Teaches at a church.
Turn Jefferson into man.
Treated as a hog.
Acts like a hog.
Eats food out bag.
Ready to die now.
Grant, an educated man.
School for colored children.
Children in the fields.
White schools, colored schools.
Miss Emma, protective mother.
Tea cakes, fried chicken.
Silent treatment from Jefferson.
Jefferson locked up alone.
Jefferson accused of murder.
Three killed for alcohol.
Wrong place, wrong time.
Jefferson called a hog.
Back door brings memories.
Asks Pichot for permission.
Jefferson doubted for education.
Grant asks Guidry himself.
Jefferson is sentenced death.
A Lesson Before Dying.
Miss Emma cooks Jefferson food.
Grant is Jefferson’s teacher.
Mr. Grope is killed.
Is Jefferson a man?
Is Jefferson a hog?
Whites are over blacks.
No justice for Jefferson.
Sheriff lets Grant teach.
Jefferson is really innocent.
Jefferson’s a black man.
Grant’s a school teacher.
Vivian is Grant’s girlfriend.
Vivian is a teacher.
Miss Emma is “sick”
Racism truly destroys humanity.
Man sentenced to death
Because of his race
Not for his actions
Black man white world
Whites ready to accuse
black ready to defend
Whites win, white world
They bring Jefferson food
He wants his freedom
They don’t deliver
Miss Emma starts crying
Accessory after the fact
Could make better choices
Then he was arrested
Now he will die
Mr. Grope’s store was robbed.
Three people were killed.
Jefferson got “the chair”.
He was called a hog.
Grant is a Teacher.
Miss Emma wants his help.
Make Jefferson a man.
Grant doesn’t want to.
Ms. Emma asks a favor.
From a man with connections.
He thinks it’s stupid.
But Sheriff allows it.
Grant doesn’t like Louisiana.
He hates the racism.
he feels only exists.
he does not truly live.
Mr. Grope™s store was robbed.
Three people were killed.
Jefferson got the chair.
He was called a hog.
Grant is a Teacher.
Miss Emma wants his help.
Make Jefferson a man.
Grant doesn’t want to.
Ms. Emma asks a favor.
From a man with connections.
He thinks it’s stupid.
But Sheriff allows it.
Grant doesn’t like Louisiana.
He hates the racism.
He feels he exists.
But doesn’t truly live.
1.Jefferson is a hog
Death was the sentence
He was wrongly accused
Jefferson is in jail
2.Grant is a teacher
He is very educated
Taught Jefferson in jail
Asked to pull switch
3.Ms Emma faked sick
Made grant feel humiliated
She talked to Henry
She had to cry
4. Grant visited Jefferson alone
Jefferson asked him questions
Jefferson was a accessory
He didn’t know better
All men are equal
People show no mercy
Death is ultimate punishment
All men die men
Family stands together always
All love is patient
Grant loves his Tante Lou
Fight for your beliefs
Justice system is corrupt
Jefferson an innocent man
Eye for an eye
Discrimination is highly unjust
The South is wretched
Slavery out of control
Discrimination is poison to all
African Americans work harder
Teacher sent to assist.
Segregation in the south.
Disgraced in his defense.
Took whiskey to calm nerves.
Two drunks kill man.
Just wanted a ride.
To die by the chair.
Stuck in prison.
Catatonic in his cell.
Acts as a hog.
Blacks experience hardships.
The south is unfair.
A Lesson Before Dying.
Wrongly accused of murder.
“Hog” sentenced to death.
Learning to prove a point.
1.
-Jefferson is a “hog.”
-All men are equal.
-Blacks seen as inferior.
-Whites raised as superior.
2.
-Grant doesn’t trust himself.
-Ms.Emma brings food.
-Mr.Henri is ungrateful.
-Vivian is getting divorced.
3.
-You “were” not “was.”
-Straight sentences not slanted.
-Leftovers for other “children”
-Jefferson does not care.
4.
-Tante Lou is very strict.
-Louis bet against Grant.
-No justice for colored.
-Ms.Emma brings Jefferson food.
–
Miss Emma Jefferson’s Aunt.
She is very old.
She needs help.
Asks people to help make Jefferson in a “man.”
Jefferson convicted of murder.
Goes to jail.
Referred to as “hog”
Sentenced to death.
Grant hates the south.
He loves the people.
Especially Vivian.
He wants to leave the south with her.
Dr. Joseph is the superintendent.
Has an inspection for the school in town.
Picks different students.
Lectures students about healthy habits.
My name is Jefferson
Accused of killing others
I’m not a hog
Will prove them wrong
A Lesson Before Dying
A man wrongly accused
Death by electric chair
Must make a change
Educated man named Grant
Must share his knowledge
School for colored children
Will change their lives
Grant loves girlfriend, Vivian
Vivian’s getting a divorce
Grant stays for Vivian
Both compromise for relationship
Southern life is hard.
Jim Crow laws enacted.
Louisiana can be rural.
White skin ruled 1940s.
Ms.Emma loved her godson.
Tante Lou raised her nephew.
Grant left Bayonne,education.
They all served Pichot.
Jefferson was falsely accused.
A man isn’t a hog.
Electrically charged death sentence.
He must have dignity.
Grant and Vivian date.
Rainbow Room is they’re getaway.
Vivian was previously married.
They are both teachers.
1.No blacks allowed here
2.Black man gets life
3.No justice for negros
4.Use the back door
1.Any racist white men
2.No colored allowed here
3.Whites rule over blacks
4.Living in the south
1.South needs to change
2.A man or hog
3.All men created equal
4.Hog gets death sentence
1.Caught in a shooting
2.Didn’t pull the trigger
3.Now sentence to death
4.Now gets the chair
Jefferson went to jail.
Gets sentenced to death.
He is called hog.
should die a man.
a teacher is called.
to show Jefferson pride.
grant starts to stall.
didn’t deserve to die.
he is a man.
not a filthy hog.
decides to help Jefferson.
Grant knows the truth.
discrimination still goes strong.
black loses against white.
wrongs keep coming up.
justice is so corrupt.
Three killed by drunks.
Jefferson is discriminated against.
Jefferson sentenced to electrocution.
Must die a man.
Miss Emma sobs over Jefferson.
Grant conflicted about decision.
Vivian helps Grant decide.
Doesn’t want to teach.
Grant wishes to leave.
Grant teaches in church.
Dating Vivian although married.
Grant helps Jefferson’s dignity.
South is highly segregated.
Segregation during 1940s Louisiana.
Education is greatly valued.
World needs to change.
Ride with the guys
unexpected shootings came about
jefferson did not shoot
he stole alcohol instead
jefferson only one alive
police arrive at scene
jefferson looks very guilty
infact he was not
police arrest him immediately
family finds out quick
law decided to execute
jefferson adressed as hog
Grant is a teacher
jefferson is not manly
enters chair as man
man now not hog
A MAN or HOG?
White infer him animal
Jefferson act like one
Emma want him man
A Lesson Before Dying
Jefferson want die now
Grant trying to help
Jefferson lost of fate
Wrong Place,Wrong Time
Three men die then.
An innocent was accuse.
Grant is being blame.
To Live or die?
Grant want to runaway.
Jefferson thinking about death.
Emma want him man.
WRONG Place, WRONG Time
Murder put on Jefferson
What could he do?
To shocked to run
Jefferson is to Die
Miss Emma hurt and worried
The chair awaits him
No justice for Jefferson
Jefferson is a HOG?
No he’s a man.
According to Miss Emma.
She raised a MAN!
Grant’s help is needed.
Pressure put on him
What could he do ?
His job, to teach.
Mia’s 4 x 4
Jefferson refused to speak.
Grant was Jefferson’s teacher.
Emma was Jefferson’s support.
Vivan and Grant dated.
Visitation rights were granted.
Grant has an education.
Tante Lou supported Emma.
Miss Emma loved Jefferson.
White supremacy was present.
Coloreds were less educated.
Gaines wrote this book.
Louisiana was the setting.
1940′s was the time .
A lesson before dying.
Jefferson received death penalty.
Jefferson isn’t a hog.
My name is Jefferson
Stand by can kill
There but not there
Jefferson needed the money
Jefferson got pick up
He got call hog
Do you have corn
Words hurts too much
south in the 1940s
Die like a man
Electric chair is death
Jefferson acts like hog
Will Jefferson become man
School for colored children
Miss Emma the godmother
Miss Emma is sick