Describes how stories and poems can help students understand the experience of growing up in various cultures. Students are involved in role playing, dramatization, and writing assignments. A Yoruba poem and a tale from the mountains of North Carolina are presented as examples. (Author/DB)

A series of activities to help junior high school students build a conceptual model of communication. Through games and reading selections, students become familiar with dialect and jargon; consider the thesis that language is behavior; and understand how easy it is to fail to communicate with other people. (Author/AV)

Activities to increase student awareness of problems related to learning to communicate with others. Students develop profiles of their classmates and role play scenes from their partners' daily lives. (Author/AV)

A series of activities to help junior high school students understand that common barriers to communication are cultural differences, ethnocentrism, prejudice, and misinterpretation. (Author/AV)