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Standards:: 5: Students will demonstrate cross-cultural knowledge and understanding.
Performance Indicators:
1. Demonstrate familiarity with some cultural and language patterns and norms in American English. Such patterns and norms include levels of formality, idioms, and humor.
2. Demonstrate familiarity with some U.S. cultural referents at the local and national levels. Such cultural referents include holidays, symbols, traditions, and customs.
3. Share cross-cultural experiences and ideas with others.
4. Interpret and demonstrate knowledge of nonverbal communication, and understand the contexts in which they are used appropriately. Such means of nonverbal communication include gestures, body language, volume, and stress.
5. Read, listen to, and respond to myths, folktales, and literature from the United States and international regions and cultures, including the students' own.
6. Learn about and demonstrate an appreciation of some commonalities and distinctions across cultures and generations, including the students' own.