Errol Sosa 
Melissa Martinez
Joana Fuller
I have learned that poverty has been a big impact on families, in school, and in the medical fields. I learned that sometimes I can be very impatient when working with people that ask a lot of questions, (that may not be helpful). I also learned that my ability to work with others sometimes isn’t the best especially when the people in your group bug you a lot and don’t let you concentrate. My group and I also came up with putting buildings to represent the medical systems because medical systems are part of the reasons why some families are impoverished and end up without a home. For example, something bad can happen to a person in their family and they need to get surgery, and after they will need to pay the bill for the surgery but if they can’t pay the bill then they can end up being an impoverished family. My group and I came up with doing a bridge that is full of impoverished people that live in a tent near the Angel Stadium, we put it on the board to represent the environmental systems. My group also came up with putting a school that is impoverished because families that live in a poor neighborhood sometimes can’t afford to take their child to school or can’t afford to buy their child school supplies. These all connect to the universal theme because we put the generalizations wherever they fit in with the background. My group and I are planning to make three hands and having them holding something that relates to the medical system, educational system, and environmental systems. In the next steps I think that we need to draw out the plan make a mini sculpture (prototype) to see if it works with our topic. Some things we need to do are get the materials needed them make the prototype so it could be the model for the finished masterpiece. I think the collaboration is going fine with my peers because although at some points we can get annoying I know that we are all just trying to help out. The boards turned out pretty good and in my opinion I think what we have done so far turned out to be pretty good and not a disaster. ​

Since the last time I wrote about my group's research we found out that the causes of poverty include changing trends in a country's economy, lack of education, high divorce rate which causes  poverty for some families, having a culture of poverty, overpopulation, diseases such as malaria etc., and environmental problems such as lack of rainfall. Our driving question didn’t change and neither did our topic. Our driving question and topic didn’t change because we have three systems the three systems are Medical care systems, Education systems, and Environmental systems. For the student lead research part we are doing interviews. My group is interviewing a Doctor, a teacher, and a social worker who have clients, students, or patients that have been through poverty or are experiencing poverty. My group is interviewing these three people because we want to see if they have the right resources to help their students, clients, and patients through poverty. We want to see if the students, clients, or patients always show up to school or appointments or if the impoverished families attend their meetings. We want to ask them if poverty affects the way they learn or get their basic needs or the right medical help. We also want to know what it means to them to help people in poverty. We also want to know the social workers, doctors, and teachers opinion on what systems  impact the lives of impoverished families. The easy part of the project was making the board plan because Daniela and I had a lot of ideas for making the board plan, and making up the questions for the interview was also pretty easy. In the next steps we need to make sure we do the ISD correctly because all we need to do is fill out the ISD then make the font bigger  and making the board decorations right because then we would have to start all over. We also need to start practicing how to draw the background nice but not to detailed because we are going to have to cover the board with the information. Our collaboration is going great, we are all contributing to the project and we are going to meet up at our houses to do the project. Most activities we do we all collaborate then we work out a schedule to go to mentorship together.

The articles relate to my generalizations because it shows changes over time and how some people are adapted to poverty. I learned that the percentages in poverty went from starting off low to getting higher like going from 11.5 to 15.5 then decreasing to 11.5 again in over a few years and I also learned that there are organizations that try to help people in poverty. Yes we changed our topic because my group went from sports and we tried greed but one of my family members have already done that so then I thought about doing it on poverty and it became our topic. We also changed our generalizations because the ones before didn’t fit in with our topic again so it changed our universal them to fit in with the topic and generalizations. In our next information I hope we can find lots of perspectives on how different people view poverty. I think the collaboration is going pretty well because my group members and I have started to get along again.