1. Make an illustrated time line of the Civil Rights Movement, using pictures of the times to illustrate the events. Explain the events to the class and discuss why you choose the photos you did.

2. Explore the music that was popular in 1963, especially in the African American community. Find recordings or lyrics for the songs in _The Watsons_. What does the music tell you about the times? Research two of the artists. How did the fact that they were African Americans influence their careers?

3. What did people wear in 1963? What fashions were popular for formal wear and casual? What hair styles were in vogue? What was "conked hair," and how was it conked? Assemble a poster that gives us an idea of how people appeared in 1963.

4. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? Research his influence on the Civil Rights movement. Pick one speech and prepare a reading of it. Make a poster board of the speech and annotate if for display.

5. Pick four of the pictures from the photo tours. Set up a frozen tableau for each. Be prepared to have each figure in the tableau explain why he or she is there and what his/her motivation is. Good examples might be the lunch counter sit-ins, a march, or Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man. (Frozen Tableau are from Jeff Wilhelm's book You Gotta Be the Book.)

6. You are a talk show host. Your guests today are Bull Connors and Martin Luther King Jr. Act out the talk show that would ensue.

7. Make a collage that shows how the life of an African American in the late 1950s or early 1960s would have differed from that of a white person in the south. Research the "Jim Crow" laws. In your collage show places where African Americans would have been denied admittance or treated differently or places where their lives were "separate but equal."