Last Friday was our due date to turn in our Summative Assessment Task. We had many options on how we could write and do that, the only objective was to engage a variety of texts, explore and compare themes and ideas within and across texts, and finally express a personal response to a text.

My Project was a magazine article, it talked about everything we had learned since the beginning of the unit. First, I talked about culture, how it was important for everyone and how influenced everything around us. Second, I talked about how culture was connected to the book that I read, which was “How to kill a Mocking Bird” by Harper Lee.

I talked about independent learning, what it is, what were an independent learner’s characteristics and how being an independent learner could help in your future. I talked about the cultural Iceberg which was really important to culture, it means that you can’t really see what a person is feeling, her values, her desires, so that’s like the part of the Iceberg that stays under the water, where we can’t see.

Another topic for my Task was the research question, which was: “Why is racism one of the most devastating factor between cultures?” and I think this is one question that many people ask themselves because in this book, there are many different cultures and people, styles, how people dress, religions, skin color, and everything sums up to racism. Of course, there are people that respect the difference in each one of us, and know that they can’t change any of it, but there are also people that can only protect and respect what they believe on and not look towards the different people.

This project helped me to get my final response to my learning, it was definitely a good experience, where I was able to learn more about culture and how it affects us, how the author’s background can also affect his/her writing.