The story takes place in an elementary school and classroom. The characters are the nineteen students and the teacher, Ms. Smith. The teacher brainstorms with the students on how to share the different aspects of respect with the rest of the students in the school. Together they decide to write stories and make a class book of them. They make up posters and put them up around the school. The children make a bulletin board of the world and are able to travel around the world using their personal pictures each time they do something that shows respect. The students also make games using respectable words that they can play with other children on the playground and in the classroom. At the end of the school year, each class in the school puts on a performance on stage doing something they had learned during the school year. Ms. Smiths class, having learned all about respect, writes a poem and performs their respect poem on stage as a class.
