Kalume 1

Ruth Kalume

Ms. Lemere

AP English Literature and Composition

May 28, 2019

SLE Reflection

When I first heard that we had to do a service learning activity based on our topic, I

didn’t know what or where to start. I started regretting why I chose “ Stereotype” as my topic,

because there was not community organization in which I could team up with in order discuss

the impact of stereotype in our society. At first I wanted to change my topic, start all over

from writing research paper to creating my power point. So I when to speak to my mentor

and asked he if he think it right for me to change my topic and redo my research paper, he

told that wasn’t wase, and that I should create my own service learning activity. After talking

to him, I still didn’t know what I wanted to do but I knew that I wanted to have conversation

with people. So for my SLE, I decide to create a video and a survey so I could learn more

about peoples view on stereotypes. One of the main obstacle I faced, was finding people

willing to be interview. But I later found five great people willing to set down with me and

answer some questions about stereotypes. After finishing the video, I thought to myself that it

wasn’t enough just to film people. I thought about the people that had something to say, but

didn’t want to be film, so I create a survey and tough a class at my friend’s club“ Lift Every

Voice”, where we also had a group conversation about how we could stop stereotyping each

other. How we can learn to listen to one and other. One thing that I have learn throughout this

process and how similar why all are, and how we need to stop accepting stereotypes that

people place on us. If I could do one thing different I would talk to more people.