This teacher's manual is a guide to a learning package of materials dealing with the cultural and ethnic heritage of black and white rural Southern agrarians. Specific teaching strategies are detailed in a step-by-step fashion and revolve around three models of instruction, which involve teacher directed in class activities as well as self directed activities, with a role for the teacher as consultant or facilitator. The need to initiate ethnic heritage studies with content on the agrarian experience of the rural South is discussed. The manual also contains background information on the learning package program and materials, student learning objectives, teacher competencies, school policy and Georgia State high school requirements. (Author/MK)