Welcome to Heelotia!

Highly Valued

• Tokens
• Information concerning vital statistics
• Non verbal communication

Values / Rules

• Bodies are very private. Never touch another or allow yourself to be touched.
• There is a taboo against eye contact. Never look another person in the eye. You must approach and converse right side of face to right side of face.

Tasks

Within your own group, using only questions which can be answered "yes" or "no," guess numerical statistics of your fellow Heelots. (For example: Do you wear size 7 shoes? Do you have one child? Are you 37 years old?)

• If your question is answered with a "yes", receive a token from your subject.
• If your question is answered "no", give a token to the subject.
• Ask only one question at a time, but you may return to the same person numerous times.
• You may collect a token from any other Heelot you see breaking the rules.

Behavior enforcement

• If you see a Heelot break a rule, she must forfeit a token.
• But if an outsider breaks a rule, she is shunned and the Heelots show their disgust by quickly walking away.

Dodson, Margaret et al. The English as a Second Language Tutor Training Manual (Regina: The Regina Public Library, 1988.) Original source unknown.