Reflection #4

The driving question to our symposium project was, "How do the perspectives of poverty contribute to the educational, medical, and environmental systems?" Some of the revisions that I made as I prepared to turn in our project was to check in with Ms. Park to see what else was needed. We added on more information onto our board to go beyond requirements since we wanted our project to stand out. On the idea of scholarly research I learned on how to make sure if an article or website is reliable or not since it will be need in the research. I learned on the idea of an oral presentation though this experience was that it is needed to practice what is need to say before actually presenting and prepare for any questions that people may have. I learned on how to do student-led research and I found it best and useful to do an interview in person than by email since you actually get to communicate with them and see their facial expressions. If I could have done something differently it would be on adding more information to our board since we just added a bit more than required and we could have also made our tri-fold neater. Once piece of advice I would give any incoming student next year about the learning experience of Symposium would be that it is an amazing experience to collaborate with others and get the chance to come together to work on a topic that you are interested but also to not stress about it since at the end all the hard work will pay off. 

Interviews

Melissa Martinez

Errol Sosa

Joanna Fuller

Reflection #3

I learned about the multiple perspectives on how poverty is affecting people. We saw a teacher, social worker, and a doctor’s perspective on how poverty affects their students, clients, or patients. There are multiple factors that lead to families in poverty not being able to get the resources that they need. I learned about myself and my ability to work with others that sometimes we all just have to divide the work to finish sooner but at the same time collaborate to get the perspectives of the other group members. My group made our trifold background and imagery connected to our universal theme, generalizations, and topic on a deep and symbolic level by drawing out the three branches we would talk about which are the environmental, medical, and educational systems. We are still planning on what we will do for our supplemental piece because we have multiple ideas that we want to use but want to make it fit to our board. We need to get together and discuss what we will be working on then divide up the materials on who will buy or work on what that way we can just fit all the pieces together. The collaboration in our group is going okay since sometimes we can’t find time when we all could work on it and one has more work than the rest but eventually we manage to balance it out again. We might struggle on our supplemental piece but it will eventually show all the hard work we put into our Symposium Projects.

Symposium Tri-Fold Board

Information Synthesis Document

Description for Interviews

Joanna Fuller talks about how poverty affects her students in and out of her classrooms. Joanna’s job helps the systems that are composed of subsystems and parts by getting them their supplies that are necessary. Melissa Martinez talks about how poverty affects her clients in their life with poverty. Melissa’s job helps to complete a task or a mission by helping her clients to fix their economical problems. Errol Sosa talks about how poverty affects his patients health due to their environment and to help them get medication. He explains how poverty is composed of subsystems and parts.

Student Led Research

Sources

Reflection #2

At first our driving question was, “How do people view poverty?” But then we realized it was a googleable question so we changed it up. We were able to divide our research into 3 and then connect it back to the idea of insufficiency. Our final driving question was, “How does the perspectives of poverty contribute to the education, medical, and environmental systems?” At first it was a pain because we had to keep changing and changing and changing our question until it was approved but it has really helped us guide our research. Now that we are in our student-led research option we are doing an interview. We decided that doing an interview would be fit better for our project since our gate icon is multiple perspectives. We are interviewing three people for our project: a teacher, doctor, and social worker. Working on this process was kind of difficult since at first we did not know who to interview. We had no clue who to contact but, then we all came up with different ways to separate the interviews and so far we have two assured interviews. Some things that we still need to do are get our interview results, finish our “Information Synthesis Document” to organize all of our information to place on our final display board. At first our collaboration was difficult because two of them had sports practice and since the final tournament was coming up they weren’t able to skip practice. We had to work around their schedule but now that all three of us are in track we were able to get excused to come to our mentors to get help.

Reflection #1

So far during our exploration of our topic we learned about a topic that we never really hear much about. We have not really heard much about the topic and we think that if we learn about it and explain it to others then people would give it much more importance. We have changed our topic because we started off wanting to do it on sport injuries. We asked our mentor (Miss Park) and she said that it wasn’t really a topic so, we changed it to poverty. We were going to do the multiple perspectives on poverty but, when I began to talk to Mrs. Romeo she made me realize that it was still too broad. As we started talking we ended up with the topic on the multiple perspectives on medical care and the poverty within it. In other information I hope to find articles on the government's views on our topic or other perspectives. Our collaboration so far is going really good. When we stay for mentorship with Mr. Torres we actually focus on what we have to work on and ask for help. Although not our entire group goes to mentorship because of sports we still manage to inform the other person on what they missed or what we worked on. During class, we talk about how our topic is supported by the articles and help one another annotate the articles. I really enjoy working on Symposium with the people I want to work with and able to collaborate with them. I find it more helpful when you get to work with helpful people, which is why I found exploring our topic quite simple.