Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: What Makes Us Human?
Ninth graders read chapters 18-27 of A Lesson Before Dying and examine how the interactions among the characters and the lessons learned by these characters develops a theme. Students also view the video, "Why Your Worst Deeds Don't...
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
This is an online study guide/notes for the novel A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character, Tone and Theme
Ninth graders will read chapters 28- 31 of A Lesson Before Dying. They participate in a whole-class discussion about the changes that occur in the main characters and how these changes relate to lessons being learned. Students will...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Writing Task
In this section, 9th graders prepare to write, develop, and publish the culminating task essay. They also reflect on the understanding they've built through the unit texts by engaging in a discussion about the unit question, and they...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Isolation
Students will examine how the theme of isolation is developed in chapters 8-17 of A Lesson Before Dying, as well as the song "I Am a Rock," "No Man is an Island," and an excerpt from Invisible Man. Students will also examine the internal...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "A Lesson Before Dying" Teacher Guide
Questions and discussion ideas abound in this teacher guide, which also includes significant quotations from the book for discussion and writing.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about the lessons Grant and Jefferson have learned about humanity in the first seven chapters.
Swiss Educ
Swiss Educ: Gaines, Ernest J.
Both background about the author and aids to studying "A Lesson Before Dying" are included at this site. Audio clips of conversations with Gaines, and the beginning of the novel are featured.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying
Ninth graders will be introduced to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and will explore how this hierarchy relates to the needs that humans have. Students will also be introduced to background information about the South during Jim Crow through...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Organize Before Writing
Revise the organization of your writing to a prompt to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Outlining for Writing
Review the culminating task prompt, your thesis statement, and the evidence you have gathered. Complete the outlining section of the culminating task tool to organize the supporting claims and evidence for your work.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Posing Questions
Prepare to write by posing and answering questions about a prompt. This will help you refine our understanding of the prompt.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Invictus: Tone
Read "Invictus" in groups to establish your understanding. When we are done reading, we will locate details that develop the tone.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Character Development
Form claims to prepare for a discussion about how characters Grant and Jefferson have changed throughout the story.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Build your knowledge of what it means to be human by answering questions to help you prepare to read "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs."
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Jim Crow Laws
Read "Jim Crow Laws" to establish your understanding of the text, and to see how they impacted African Americans.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Summarize
Read paragraphs one and two from the prologue of Invisible Man together to establish our understanding, and then summarize the text.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: I Am a Rock
Build our knowledge of the musical group Simon and Garfunkel by reading the background information. This will help you prepare to read "I Am a Rock."
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Characters and Theme
Gather and organize evidence to prepare for a discussion about the similarities between Grant and Jefferson and their placement on Maslow's hierarchy. This will help us understand how Gaines is using characters to develop a theme.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Ernest J. Gaines Lesson Plans
An online resource featuring links to information on the life and work of Ernest J. Gaines. These links provide biographical information along with lesson plans and activities.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Bucket List Poetry
Using the song "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw from the soundtrack for The Bucket List as a model, students will take a look at their values and the things they would like to accomplish in their lives before they run out of...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher
In this project, students write tributes to teachers who have made a profound difference in their lives then publish their work in a class collection.