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 * The five themes of geography; Location, Place human characteristics, human environment interaction, Movement, Regions
 * Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
 * Personal stories of those from the Delta
 * discussions of black labor force displaced due to flood of 1927
 * sharecropping; slave labors
 * concern of how much students do not know. For example Fannie Lou Hammer,
 * use of music to tell the story
 * visual literacy; juxtapositions
 * collaborative work for photo reviews of archives
 * Emmett Till traveling exhibit
 * discussion webs to help students visualize the key elements of an issue and quickly idenitfy opposing points of view
 * Suggested Reading: __Sons of Mississippi__