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Standards:: 5: Students will demonstrate cross-cultural knowledge and understanding.
Performance Indicators:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of cultural and language patterns and norms in American English, including different regional and social varieties of English, and identify and interpret how these patterns and norms are used. Such patterns and norms include levels of formality, slang, humor, idioms, rhetorical patterns, and standard vs. nonstandard dialects
2. Demonstrate an understanding of a broad range of U.S. cultural and political referents through institutions, functions, and processes at the local and national levels, and compare/contrast these with parallels in the students' native community. Such cultural and political referents include holidays, symbols, traditions, customs, governance systems, and schooling.
3. Recognize and share cross-cultural experiences and idea, 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 means of nonverbal communication include gestures, body language, volume, stress, intonation, pace, rhythm, and pauses.
5. Compare and contrast oral traditions, myths, folktales, and literature from different national and international regions and cultures, including the students' own, identifying similarities and differences and universal cultural themes, and exploring how language and literature transmit culture.
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.