Activity 1: Have your students practice greeting each other. Allow them to interact first and males and females, then add the structure of your classroom society and allow them to greet one another with as much of a proper address as they can muster. This is all very complicated and whatever the student can remember should be well received.

Activity 2: Hold a complimenting contest in your classroom. Students will create their own compliments, then select an opponent. The more elaborate the compliment, the better, and the last person to run out of compliments wins. (The best formula for creating a Renaissance-style compliment is to compare your subject to beautiful things. For example: "Your eyes are more radiant than a thousand stars on a crisp, clear night." One of the richest sources for inspiration is Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet!)

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