Book Review A Lesson Before Dying A Lesson Before Dying was written by Ernest J. Gaines. The novel takes place in the late 1940s. It is about a man named Jefferson who witnessed a shoot out in a liquor store. He is the only survivor so the town automatically assumes it was his fault. He is sentenced to death without a fail trial. He isn't a very educated man, so his Godmother, Miss Emma, convinces the town schoolteacher, Grant Wiggins, to teach ... him. Grant and Jefferson form a very strong bond and become good friends. Jefferson proves that heroism is not always expressed through action, so...

• Word Count: 264
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

"Tuesday's With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" by Mitch Albom has a title which outlines the direction of the book. An older man, Morrie, a young man, Mitch, and about life's greatest lesson. Morrie was a professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts when Mitch attended college. Morrie was his favorite professor. A few years after Morrie was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ASL ... ) he was unable to teach anymore. This was about 20 years after Mitch graduated ... Morrie so much more. Knowing Morrie was dying, Mitch went to see him every Tues...

• Word Count: 2334
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"Tuesday's With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson" by Mitch Albom has a title which outlines the direction of the book. An older man, Morrie, a young man, Mitch, and about life's greatest lesson. Morrie was a professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts when Mitch attended college. Morrie was his favorite professor. A few years after Morrie was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ASL ... ) he was unable to teach anymore. This was about 20 years after Mitch graduated ... Morrie so much more. Knowing Morrie was dying, Mitch went to see him every Tues...

• Word Count: 2334
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... in West Newton, Massachusetts in 1994 at Morrie's house, in his study on Tuesdays. Albom details the six months he spends with Morrie Schwartz, his former sociology professor from Brandeis University who is dying of ALS, and the life lessons he receives. Mitch is a newspaper sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press. He was Morrie's last student that he taught, but through Mitch's writing ... body works, but what he is teaching is with passion. The students don't know that they are learning. He teaches the meaning of Life and how to be human, which is the theme in this story. The book...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School