A Lesson Before Dying Lesson Plan

What does Miss Emma ask Grant to do for Jefferson? What do her instructions mean? Why does she choose Grant? What is Grant's opinion about being given this task?

Miss Emma wants Grant to visit Jefferson in jail before he is executed and to teach him how to be a man, "I don't want them to kill no hog, ... I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet." Miss Emma wants Jefferson to walk to his death with his head held high, she wants him to stand up to the twelve white juries who convicted him, and to the society as a whole, in the last way possible, by dying with dignity. She says she chose Grant because he is the local teacher. She expects he will be able to...