Karol's English Blog 7thpd

 Prompt:  What strategies have you and your group used to ensure that all members are actively contributing to group assignments? Explain how you communicate, divide responsibilities, and hold each other accountable throughout the process. Prompt Response: Strategies that me and my group used to ensure that all members are actively contributing to group assignments is first negotiating who will do what, and then assigning the work to each one of us. We barely struggled since each one of us were very agreeable with things, enough to quickly finish the work.  Summary: Today, as a group, we were supposed to work together to write a introduction paragraph to our topic. One of us was absent so that left just the two of us. The introduction included 2 paragraphs so we took it upon ourselves that we each do one paragraph. After it was done, we were supposed to copy it down to writable, by typing instead of copy and pasting. Then we had this source identification we had to do, it...

 Prompt:  Reflect on your research topic and identify the most compelling issue connected to it. Clearly explain what the issue is and discuss why you find it particularly interesting or important. Support your response with specific details from your research. Prompt Response: The most compelling issue connected to it is the massive enforcement and deportation initiatives with humanitarian protection obligations and civil liberties. More specifically, the tightened U.S. immigration regime, I find it interesting and important since it's a big major issue today. The immigration policies of the country had impacted economically, socially, and politically, creating different outcomes for the immigrants or migrants who struggle to survive. Summary: Today we worked on selecting sources, each person presented a source from each category, then we would pick the best one to use. Mr. Rease gave us two worksheets to work on, my group managed to finished one paper. We had to fill in the ...

 Prompt:  What challenges did your group face while selecting and analyzing sources, and how did you overcome them? Be specific about how your group communicated and worked through disagreements. Prompt Response: There were barely any challenges in our group while selecting and analyzing sources, it went by smoothly without any huge disagreements, instead we reasoned and quickly decided.  We would first go to each other's sources and present them to each other, once we choose one source out of three we move on to the next section. Each one of us got to contribute and have at least one of our sources used to help support our research question. Summary: Today the class continued to work on the worksheets Mr. Rease gave us back on Monday, our group continued on to the next page. Each one of us would go over the sources originating from us, looking for direct quotes for our evidence, Mr. Rease told us that it had to be from the same page. After each one of us found the eviden...