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Standards:: 5: Students will demonstrate cross-cultural knowledge and understanding.
Performance Indicators:
1. Demonstrate familiarity with cultural and language patterns and norms in American English. Such patterns and norms levels of formality, slang, humor, idioms, and rhetorical patterns.
2. Demonstrate familiarity with a broad range of U.S. cultural and political referents through institutions, functions, and processes at the local and national levels. Such cultural and political referents include holidays, symbols, traditions, customs, governance systems, and schooling.
3. Recognize and share cross-cultural experiences, and ideas, and connect with those of others.
4. Interpret and demonstrate knowledge of nonverbal and oral communication features, and understand the contexts in which they are used appropriately. Such features include gestures, body language, volume, stress, and intonation.
5. Read, listen to, and discuss myths, folktales, and literature from the United States and international regions and cultures, including the students' own, and identify similarities and differences among them.
6. Recognize and demonstrate an appreciation of some commonalities and distinctions across cultures and groups (differentiated by gender, ability, generations, etc.) including the students' own.