Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? What criteria did you use in deciding on the genres to include in your paper? What piece was the hardest or most challenging to write? Why? The most fun or interesting? Why? ||
 * **Date** || **List the** **items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Concerns** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Inspirations** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Contemplations** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/7/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I looked at the instructions to the project and watched the Jeff Bezos video. I brainstormed at least 5 possible topics for the project. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I don’t know if these possible topics will be the right one for me for the project. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/8/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">We learned about the FQI Sheets. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I think the FQI Sheets aren’t too complicated. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/10/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I completed one of my FQI Sheets. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">My concern is that I won’t find at least three different types of resources for the FQI Sheets ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/16/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I worked on answering questions for my character writing assessment. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I think my character is pretty good so far. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/18/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I worked on how not to write boring sentences from the ink book. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I thought the resource was useful for the narrative assessment next week. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/22/12** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; text-align: left;">I wrote some of my narrative story. || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; text-align: left;">My concern is it's going to be too long. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I worked on my wanted poster for one type of genre. || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I think I have a good idea for what to put on it. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; text-align: left;">I worked on making a six room image poem. || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">My concern is I might not want to make a poem as one of my genres. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I worked on making a timeline as one of my genres. || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I think it is coming together well. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; text-align: left;">I worked on making a newsletter as one of my genres. || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; text-align: left;">I think that the newsletter is coming along well. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** || # <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I chose the U.S. Army in Somalia from 1992-1994 because it was something I really didn't know about. I saw the movie “Black Hawk Down”, which was based on this topic. The movie was very good and it made me interested in finding more information about this event in American history. I'm pretty happy with my choice because it is very important to our history, but I kind of regret it because I could have done the evolution of football, which is my favorite sport. How the sport has changed; like the rules, equipment, positions, etc. is very interesting to me.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">My goals were to learn new information and use this information to teach others about my topic. I have definitely met these goals because I have a good grasp of what happened and why it happened about this topic. I have used this information and input it into this project to teach others about this topic.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">I collected a good amount of information when I was looking for information. It was pretty easy finding the information because we are using computers, so we have a variety of resources at the tip of our fingers to use to find information.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">My criteria for deciding on the genres to put in my project included the amount of information I had and if the information went well with type of genre. The most challenging piece to write was writing the poem. It was the most difficult to write because I tried to make a rhythmic pattern and try to utilize the information in the poem so that the poem will make sense. The most fun piece to write was the wanted poster. The wanted poster was the most fun to write because I felt like a policemen in the office making a poster for a criminal, which was pretty cool. || <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**For this last reflection, you should choose**  <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**four** <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;"> **of the nine questions listed here:**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">Adapted from ©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: timesnewromanpsmt,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**Process Journal Scoring Checklist**

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: timesnewromanpsmt,serif; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Total Process Journal Points /40 points

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Score A Date 5/28 9 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_ 4 points There were no journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Score B ___ Date 6/4 9points__** ___10 points__ Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. __Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.__

___8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries.__ Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. __While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted.__ ___5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors.__ ___ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring.__

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">**Score C** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Date 6/8 28 points** _10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible. There is evidence of some reflection about the components of the project, but the journal is more of a list than a reflection at times. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #487dc6; display: block; font-family: timesnewromanpsmt,serif; font-size: 22px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**Plus** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_10 points Student answered more than four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. _8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_5-6 points Students answered some of the final reflection questions. The responses answered the questions with little elaboration or insight. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.