These curriculum notes are companion materials for The World is Our Home, Volumes 1-4, Books & Beyond’s annual compilations of short stories written by students from Kabwende Primary School (Kinigi, Rwanda) and TEAM Schools (Newark, NJ, USA), with assistance from undergraduates at Indiana University Bloomington’s Global Village Living Learning Center. Books & Beyond was established in 2009 as a collaborative service-learning project that would bring students together from three different schools and two different countries.