Learners will examine mealtime etiquette in different countries and gain perspectives about other cultures from the rules governing table manners.

Read and discuss autobiographical essays about the daily lives of girls from Georgia, Guyana, and Uganda.

A Story by a Peace Corps Volunteer

Students will wrestle with resolving contrasting values between cultures.

The writer confronts issues of racial prejudice that she encounters in South Africa, years after the abolition of the official policy of apartheid.

Students will strive to view situations from more than their own point of view.

Students examine what it takes to make a hero in a story about digging a hole for a fishpond.

Students examine the culturally based impulse to share with others versus the impulse to watch out for oneself or one's immediate family.

Students examine what goes into hero worship and establishing unlikely friendships.

Students will discover how the concepts of time and punctuality can differ markedly in the United States and another country.