My research question at them moment which I thought of it (with the help of Mrs. Taynton) is, to what extent does a person’s culture affect his or her place in society? How I came up with this is during Language Arts we were assigned to read specific books for this unit, culture, I chose The Serpent’s Children by Laurence Yep which gave me a boost for my research question. As I was reading the book I came across little segments where the main character, Cassia, is surrounded with culture and her place in society whether she wants to be accepted or not. This hinted me an idea for my research question.

My inquiry is that looking through this question I need to understand the depth of cultures around the world of how they show this idea of culture affecting people’s place in society; I chose Chinese culture, makes sense because the book is based on it. What I want to find for answering or providing support for my research question is that I need to think of different areas of my idea in order to fully understand the concept I thought of. I’ve done some brainstorming, a bit of researching, and putting down key words: family system, cultural background, roles in society, etc… But although it’s been half a week developing my research question so really I haven’t fully boosted of what I really need to accomplish in this unit but it’s a great start.

Now what I need to do is keep researching and putting connections to the book and the concepts so my research question can be concluded. At this time I haven’t quite know what to do with my research question yet and this is only an embarkment to the beginning to the rest of the unit which I fully haven’t went through it yet.