Discuss lifestyles of moundbuilders and speculate about the history of
the sites
Visual and Performing Arts
Create pottery and ceramics in the style of the artifacts from the moundbuilders
Listen to and learn folk songs about the river
Current Issues
Read handout and discuss the different ways the river is subject to pollution.
Creative
Writing Project
Imagine that
you are a person or object somewhere along the river ( a piece of sediment,
a pilot, a gambler, a fish. . .). Describe your journey along the
river. Where did you join the river? Where do you expect to end up?
What do you see and do?
Reading
List
– Biography of Mark Twain
– Excerpts from Huck Finn
Mark Twain
• Discuss the social implications
of this novel – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor
– My Louisiana Sky
Kimberly Willis Holt
– Wynton Marsalis: Gifted Trumpet
Player Leslie Gourse
The Mississippi
River
