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  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. Our group faced the challenge of deciding on each other's sources because of how good each other's sources were, we had to narrow it down to the best and most accurate to the point. Today in class, we worked with our group to decide on the sources that we are going to use for the final part. Today in class I understood different sources through my group's research.

  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. My topic is about wheter US immigration policies are working and the main issue is that strict rels may control the border but also hurt migrants some sources showed migrants stuck in shelters or deteionion this matters because immigration affects real people Today in class, we looked at each other's sources that we found and decided what we wanted to use for our final project. Today I learned how my sources compare to others sources from my group and how my sources could have been improved to hit the reasearch question more.

  Prompt: How has completing the annotated bibliography changed or clarified your understanding of your research topic? Discuss how your sources connect to one another and how they are shaping your argument moving forward. Compleating my annotated bibligraphy has helped me understand the sources better as well as more sources taht I didnt use and it helps me see diffrent viewpoints and opinions on the matter. Today in class we worked on our annotated bibliography Today I understood just how effective the modern immigration policies are and how much they have reduced immigration into the united states.

  Prompt: Which part of the annotated bibliography (summary, reflection, or evaluation) was the most challenging for you, and why? Explain how that challenge helped you grow as a researcher and how it will help you when writing your research paper. The most challenging part of the annotated bibliography was the summary once I got that written it was easy to write the relection and evaluation. Today in class, we worked on our annotated bibliography. Today I learned my sources better and summarized some of them.

  Prompt: As you gathered sources, you were expected to find multiple perspectives on your topic. What differences did you notice between your sources? Explain how these differences helped you better understand the complexity of your issue. Sources vary based on what side they favor and that changes how they can approach the same topic and how they choose to look at it. Today in class we reasearched more sources. Today I understood new viewpoints of diffrent sources.

  Prompt: Think about your experience using GALILEO to find sources. How was this different from how you have searched for information in the past? Explain how using specific search strategies and evaluating sources impacted the quality of what you found. I used specific search terms to narrow down to the exact topic that I wanted. Today in class, we researched sources for border control/ immigration. Today I looked through political cartoons and I understood some new viewpoints of how people think