The following lesson plans and personal reflections or projects were produced by participants in the NEH Landmarks workshop in July 2012 entitled “The Most Southern Place on Earth.”
Settlement Time Role Playing Activity by Steve Sayer
Apples and Oranges by Mary Dohrman
Using book club and art project to demonstrate the Civil Rights and the Blues by Chuck Steinbower
Gone With the Wind, Ghosts of Mississippi and Mississippi Burning by Rich Woolery
Comparing the Floods of 1927 and 1993 by Christine Marshall
Langston Hughes by Larnette Snow
Mississippi Delta Blues by Brian Seith
Civil Rights After WWII by Jennifer Harden
“The Most Southern Place” by Mike Albert
Poor States, but a Wealth of Creativity by David Doubleday
Tents to Trailers by Patrick O’Neal
What Did Civil Rights Workers Do? by Jesse Jakubiak
Emmett Till, Michael Donald and Trayvon Martin: Civil Rights and Racial Profiling by Erin Bakkom
Civil Rights Images by Mavis McLean
The Root of the Song: The Foundation of the Blues in Contemporary Music by Gina Jackson
Dreaming and Place by Tom Buescher
Disenfranchisement of Mississippi African Americans and How Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer Confronted It and Brought Change to the System by Chris Barry
African-American History in the 20th Century and the fight for Civil Rights in the American South, 1954-1965 by Rich Mertes
Political Blues by Clint Wagner
Mississippi Flood Committee by Chris Pears
Building Blocks to the Blues by Erica Skibbie
Great Migration: Primary Source Analysis by Shaunna Reinisch
Becoming the Delta–A Creative, Research Based Assignment by Stuart Lipkowitz
Young Goodman Brown at the Crossroads by William Storz
Using song to teach the Civil Rights Movement by Brian Croone
Committee on the Reconstruction of the Mississippi Delta by Tim Lewis
The Most Southern Place by Scott Wofford
Mississippi Delta/Chicago Connections by Brad Brickner
At the “Crossroads” of Culture and Place: The Mississippi Delta, the Great Migration, and the Blues by Ryan Norton
Emmett Till Lesson Plan by Emily Squires
World Literature Teacher: Impact Academy of Arts and Technology, Most Southern Place on Earth, by Tess Lantos. Abstract and sample questions
To Kill a Mockingbird by Bob Loshbaugh
A Delta Portfolio by Mary McCullagh
Let it Never Happen Again: Using the Flood of 1927 to Teach Public Policy By Graham Long
Paint Chip Poetry by Michelle Davis
Reflections by Kim McPail
Reflections by Wendi Stetson
Mojo for Political Action by Thea Storz, with two photos of a quilt square front and back
