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My Summative Assessment is still currently in the works. I am trying to create an assessment that my students will continuously build upon throughout the unit. I was thinking of having my students create and build upon their own interactive website ( like a tumblr, weebly, wikipage, etc). Included on this website will be the current events (demonstrating a cause and effect relationship) that my students are required to collect weekly, my students' "choice tracking journal entries" where they will be responsible for tracking the choices that they have made along with their overall outcome, various YouTube clips that students will be responsible for finding that essentially demonstrate the various stereotypes that the media portrays, magazine ads,videos that my students will create to which they will use for uploading book talks on Speak, etc. Throughout the entire unit my students will be continuously collecting artifacts that demonstrate the relationship between the choices people make and there overall impact, and artifacts that demonstrate the ways in which media and society influence individuals to make certain choices (current events, tracking journals, YouTube clips, magazine ads, etc.) Incorporating "video blogs" on their website will be a way for students to discuss the novel as well as share with their peers any thoughts, questions, predictions, connections, etc. Students will be responsible each week for responding to at least one students posted artifact (students will respond to a different classmate each week.) I think that an interactive website would be great because it allows students to be in constant interaction/ discussion with their peers and it gives students access to see (through both their peers work and their own) the cause and effect relationship between the choices we make and there lasting effects. Students will be able to make this connection to both the novel //Speak// and their own lives.