Melinda Sanchez

Ms.Harris

AP Seminar 7

28 January 2019

TMP Reflection

1. Some of my contributions to the group were researching and typing information found on my

lens of the economics of the food industry and seeing if it would be important to our

presentation. Since we decided that our first subclaim would be talking about how the food

industry negatively affected the company themselves, we decided to use my lens to support this.

After setting titles for all our slides so that we were organized, I began finding a quote from my

IRR that would go with our first subclaim along with the quotes credibility and works cited. I

also critiqued our claim to make it support our ideas and become more fluent. I then created a

counterclaim for our subclaim of foodborne diseases, including a quote and credibility. Lastly, I

wrote my notecards and practiced my slides. I completed the team deadlines we made such as

having slides due by Wednesday and notecards due by Thursday.

2. As our group worked to discuss ideas and research we would often have a hard time coming to

a conclusion. When discussing a topic to choose we considered all of each others interest and

came up with the idea to look into animal testing as a topic, but it was later changed to the food

industry after some group members didn't feel that the topic was right for them. Then after we

decided on this topic we also had a hard time agreeing to a research question due to some

thinking it was too broad or containing nested questions. When it came time to create our slides

we ended up coming to a quick conclusion of what our claims and subclaims were after sharing

all of our ideas from our research.

3. To decide how our presentation was set up and what content to include we decided to share

our thoughts based on our own research and came to an agreement. At first we weren't going to

use the economic lens but later decided to incorporate it into our first subclaim. We gave the task

of each slide to the person it would best fit with based on their research. Since I had the

economic lens I would talk about how food industries hurt their own process, Prabh had the

ethics lens and yisel had the scientific so they would talk about how the food industries practices

were negatively affecting animals and consumers, and Andrew had the background lens so he

was given the background slides.

4. To complete tasks and give enough time for us to practice we set deadlines such as having our

parts of the slides due Wednesday, our notecards due Thursday so that we had the weekend to

practice our slides. While we set these deadlines we made sure to check on each other to see how

everyone was doing and if any of us were stuck. This was effective because when I was stuck on

a counterclaim Yisel and Andrew helped me come to a conclusion so that I was able to meet my

deadline.

5. We gave each other feedback when someone was stuck on their task or when we saw

something that could be fixed. Some things I did was approve quotes that would fit into our

subclaims by Yisel and correct some mistakes such as removing things we didn't mention in our

presentation from our claim.

6. My group's resolution to issues was to share each of our ideas and make sure everyone was

comfortable with the chosen subject. A group norm that was not followed was texting or warning

the group when we were going to be absent. This affected us by giving us a lack of

communication on how that person's side of the presentation and research was going and if they

were stuck or needed help on anything, as well as not having a say in our group decisions.
7. Something not talked about in the other question was struggles we face while having to create

our presentation and how we solved it with the help of our group. The most difficult part was

finding a counterclaim for our second subclaim. This was difficult because the group had

assigned me to find a counterclaim relating foodborne illness which wasn't included in anyone's

research so I had to do new research to find an accurate counterclaim with a quote. To better

understand my task, I asked my team members what kind of counterclaim they had in mind and

useful websites I could use.