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StoryTitle("caps", "Position") ?>
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your hands upon your desk, side by side.
Which side shall we call the right side? The left side?
Put your hands on the middle of your desk Page(10) ?> on the side farthest from you. That part is the back of your desk.
Think which is the front of your desk. Put your hands on the front of your desk.
Who sits on your right hand? On your left? At the desk in front of you? At the desk behind you?
Turn round. Who is on your right now? On your left? Before you? Behind you?
Turn again. Who is now on your right? On your left? Before you? Behind you?
Footnote("Lead children to see that the terms right, left, front, and back are of little use in telling the position of places, and that some fixed standard of direction is necessary.") ?>