May 2011 - Jefferson County Public Schools

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By Cha’kell Davis
I know that everyone has heard about and or has eaten
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at Pizza Hut. But if you haven’t, I suggest that you try it.
Pizza Hut is known for their pizza, pasta, wings, and dessert. They always have a special deal going on or
you can always find coupons in the local newspaper. Everyone likes pizza; I have never met anyone who
doesn’t. Even vegetarians eat at Pizza Hut because they have all types of pizza: Pepperoni, Sausage,
Cheese, Meat Lovers, Veggie Lovers, Supreme, Super Supreme, Chicken, Hawaiian Luau, Triple Meat,
Italian Trio, and Spicy Sicilian. Pizza alternatives include Buffalo wings: Burnin’ Hot, Medium, Mild, Spicy
Asian. BBQ, Honey BBQ, Lemon Pepper, Garlic Parmesan, Naked and Dripping. The pasta they have is
amazing; they have Tuscani Creamy Chicken Alfredo and Tuscani Meaty Marinara. For desert, they have
Hershey’s Chocolate Dunkers and Cinnamon Sticks.
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Pizza Hut is always having a sale, whether it is just for a day or for a month. Every Tuesday is Tuscani
Tuesday; Wednesday is Wing Wednesday,; and lately they have had large pizzas with any toppings for
$10. I definitely recommend their Pizza Hut to all pizza lovers. That’s how good it is!
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gains. Vintage Books, New York.
1993.256 pps. Tevin Robinson
Grant is a 19 year old young man living in the heart of the dirty south of Alabama.
He is a young, poor, black male who has to support his family of seven, including his mother
and his six brothers and sisters. Grant is a smart, young man looking for an opportunity to
make something out of his life. He wanted to be one of the first people in his family to go to
college.
Grant soon has a big problem; he gets fired from his job at the super market, and
finds out that he doesn’t have money to support his family and pay the bills. Times get hard
for Grant and his family; he doesn’t know what to do next. “Man I need some money, I do
anything to make some money” (pg.23). Eventually, Grant and his two friends, Bobby and
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Ricky, come up with a quick money scam. They have the idea of robbing the local liquor
store. When Grant and his friends go to the liquor store they plan on robbing, something
goes wrong, and one of his friends ends up killing the store manager and a police officer. Grant gets caught by the
police, and both of his friends get away. Grant is put on trial for a murder he didn’t commit and faces life in prison.
The author uses a lot of dialogue to get his message across to the reader. He also uses a lot of snapshots to give
the reader a picture. He also uses thought shots to tell the reader what the characters are thinking and why they are
thinking it. “I can’t believe this has happened to me. I’m never going to see my family again” (pg34).
The book, A Lesson Before Dying is similar to Getting Away with Murder, the story of Emmitt Till and how three
men took him from his home and murdered him. These two books teach you how you can learn from your mistakes, and
decide between right and wrong.
The important message in A Lesson Before Dying is that life isn’t always good, and sometimes it’s hard to the
point where you just want to give up, but just because you are poor and don’t have money, it doesn’t mean that you
should make a bigger mistake that is going to affect you for the rest of your life.