Tuesday, October 16th

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

 

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  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

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