Create a 4 x4 for A Lesson Before Dying. You can borrow 1 of my sentences to assist you in creating FOUR 4 X 4s. Once you have created your 4x4s, you will need to post it to your 4x4s on your Weebly.com as well. Explore Photopeach.com once you have finished so that you can see what the Photo-movies look like, here are some of the ones that we have created in the past.
Define the following elements using the Handbook of Literary Terms in the back of the book.
- 1. sonnet
- 2. turn
- 3. allusion
- 4. metaphor
- 5. simile
- 6. alliteration
- 7. analogy
- 8. pastoral
- 9. conceit
- 10. quatrain
- 11. couplet
- 12. poem
- 13. prose
Grant the snob: teacher.
Ms. Emma, the faker.
Tante, doesn’t like no.
Jefferson, Hog to Man.
Fried chicken, comfort food.
Coffee, ease the nerves.
Tea cakes, can’t resist.
(Gaines-74), food commodity.
Life in the 1940’s
Mulatto, Black and White.
White: Henri. Black: Grant.
Jefferson, Death row Mulatto.
A Lesson Before Dying.
Lessons to be Men.
Lessons to love family
Lessons to know sacrifice.
A Lesson Before Dying
One white, three colored
One colored man breathing?
Who’s accused anyway, Jefferson
White verses colored, always
Hogs verses men, right?
Jefferson would soon die
Shall die man instead
Grant must tell him
He must assure him
He’s a man, Man
Rather him die, Hog
All men are equal
Colored, White, still Equal
No need for inhumanity
Human kind, needs change
My name is Jefferson.
Grant has an education.
Jefferson is a hog.
Jefferson is a teacher.
Black children in field.
Jefferson went to jail.
Jefferson wants to die.
Tante Lou is Grant’s aunt.
Black treated as slaves.
Jefferson went to trial.
Jefferson, death by electrocution
Story happened in Louisiana.
Vivian and Grant dated.
Officer allowed visitation rights.
Whites overpowered the Blacks.
Jefferson given death penalty.
A Lesson Before Dying
White man is killed
Alcohol makes you crazy
Jeffersonn didnt kill them
Wrong place, wrong time
Three men are dead
They witness Jefferson sentence
Death sentence for Jefferson
A hog or man
A hog is sentence
Miss Emma raised a man
Jefferson isnt a hog
To live or die
Electric chair for Jefferson
Racism is still here
Visit Jefferson in jail
White man is killed
Grants life is over
Wrong place, wrong time
Compared to a hog
Wants to educate Jefferson
Die with his dignity
Make Jefferson a man
Pichot agrees to ask
Walks through back door
Many questions were asked
Drinking bourbon, Feeling sad
Let die a hog
Waits for grants visits
Recalling his childhood school
No faith in grant
Racism in the south
Black On White Crimes
Whites People Humiliating Blacks
Races On Daily Basis
Blacks Treated Like Slaves
Blacks In The Field
Jefferson Wants To Die
Jefferson Went To Jail
Down South In Louisiana
Grant Is A Teacher
Jefferson Grandma Miss Emma
Tante Lou Grants Auntie
Vivian Is Grant’s Girlfriend
All Men Are Equal
One White Three Blacks
One Black Person Live
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
One white, three colored
One colored man breathing?
Who’s accused anyway, Jefferson
Blacks In The Field
Jefferson Wants To Die
Jefferson Went To Jail
Down South In Louisiana
Grant Is A Teacher
Jefferson Grandma Miss Emma
Tante Lou Grants Auntie
Vivian Is Grant’s Girlfriend
White man is killed
Grants life is over
Wrong place, wrong time
Compared to a hog
A Lesson Before Dying
One white, three colored
One colored man breathing?
Who’s accused anyway, Jefferson
Blacks In The Field
Jefferson Wants To Die
Jefferson Went To Jail
Down South In Louisiana
Grant Is A Teacher
Jefferson Grandma Miss Emma
Tante Lou Grants Auntie
Vivian Is Grants Girlfriend
White man is killed
Grants life is over
Wrong place, wrong time
Compared to a hog