In this story about a plantation owner who is set up, captured, and hanged by the Union army during the Civil War, the author explores what might pass through the mind of a man standing on the edge of death. He uses descriptive language to take allow the reader to see through the eyes of the convicted man moments before he is hanged for treason.DIFFERENTIATION:Guided Reading with questions and framesVocabulary definition, graphics, shades of meaning, words groupsGroup discussion promptsWritten r