need help, having a "group" issue Options

[marzipan]

My best friend and I are working on a project due in our history class, and we're going to be presenting on either Monday or Tuesday.
It's a split project between two people with one doing a PowerPoint and one doing a poster.
She did the poster, and I did the powerpoint.

Here's the issue: the powerpoint, in my opinion, was a bigger part of the project because we needed more information on it. I have all my notecards laid out, and all my information ready. She told me Friday, at practically the last minute, that SHE wanted to present part of it with me. She had told me earlier that she wanted to present the poster, and I was fine with it. I have a problem with her taking the credit for all the hard work I did and wanting to present it when she doesn't know half of what I researched.

She ALSO tells me at the last minute that she doesn't know what she is going to say about the poster.
-_-;

Is my reasoning correct on this problem?
I want to present what I worked hard on, and I don't want her to act like she did the research as well.

[cori-catastrophe]

i agree 100% with you. you did the work, not her. so why should she get credit for it? if she's so unresponsible, maybe she should'nt be in a group with you?

[BOOGERSHAHA]

what's kind of dumb of her. would you be presenting part of the poster with her, or would she do part of powerpoint + whole poster?

maybe she's worried that it'll seem like she didn't do too much work if she only presented on the poster and wants in on some powerpoint?

just tell her not to bother learning stuff on the powerpoint (because you already know the stuff) and concentrate on making the poster presentation perfect. make it seem like you're saving her the trouble of learning the powerpoint info.

[*steve330*]

It depends on how the project is graded. If y'all both get the same grade, don't start a fight at the last minute as it won't do you any good. You can go talk to the teacher afterwards, or talk to your partner and be like wtf.

I hate group projects for this very reason. I hate people leaching off my work.

[marzipan]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

beaucoup: Our original plan was for me to do the powerpoint and her to do the poster. She wanted to do part of the powerpoint at the last minute. Thanks for the advice. I'll tell her that.

steve330: It's a grade for both of us, but our classmates watch us present and grade both of us separately. But I think that if she did badly on the presentation, it would affect my grade.

[*stephinika*]

I agree with beaucoup. Just explain that to her, and tell her since she worked on that part, that she should just concentrate on that. Because the way she wants to do it does seem rather unfair.

[*steve330*]

Well hmm. I guess just try to make sure that the presentation goes well at this point and be wary of that person in the future. Tough situation

[marzipan]

Okay, we did our presentation today, and I think we did pretty well...
But my teacher told me that he would lower our grades a little because I talked way more than her.
I talked for 14 minutes, and she talked for 2.
Before she went up there, she didn't know when she was going to talk. I was a little annoyed with me saying everything too, but she had the chance to elaborate and to work more on her speech. And she didn't. At least she's not mad or anything. She thinks we both did well...

So now I'm pissed off that my teacher thinks we should have split up the time evenly when it was her responsibility to have her info organized and to know when she wanted to speak.

[BOOGERSHAHA]

hm...maybe you can talk to your teacher and ask that you not be penalized for your friend's lack of work? your teacher might give you some crap about "learning to work together efficiently is important" but it's worth a try, i think.

good luck!

[alysaphobia]

You might want to explain to your teacher that originally you were supposed to do the entire powerpoint presentation yourself, but you guys had a last minute change... so your teacher would see that it wasn't like a situation of you talking nonstop excluding her.