Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? What facts about your topic interested you most? Did this kind of project help you get a better understanding of your topic than you might have with a more traditional kind of research paper? If so, why and in what ways did it help? How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information?
 * **Date** || **List the** **items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **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: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Today I went over all the documents required for the project. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Any thoughts and concerns that I have had today is what I am going to research for my 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: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Today I emailed my topic to Mrs. Dabrush and found a new topic to talk about. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Today went by a lot easier than yesterday did. I found a new topic and already have ideas of what my resources/writing pieces are going to look like. ||
 * <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: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I have completed 2 of 5 FQi sheets || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**There are no concerns today.** ||
 * <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: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I have completed 3 of 5 FQI sheets || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Today I went through some trouble trying to find a new resource. ||
 * <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: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I have not completed anything today. || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**I could not decide on what US Olympic team to research** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/22/12** || I have one good page of a rough draft. || I had writers block but got through it. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || Today I was supposed to study Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" but I could not find time to do this since is was Memorial Day. || I didn't study the poem at all and I am worried about my performance on the test. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || Today I started a draft for a poem and list as two of my genres for the project. I am going to continue to work on these drafts at home. || I had a little trouble with what direction I wanted to take with the poem. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || I finalized and submitted my list and poem. || There are no concerns for today. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || I began and submitted my CROT as genre and will move onto making a journal entry. || I did not know how to set up a CROT. I resolved this problem by reading the CROT document on Moodle. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** || I worked on the last section of the process journal. I also worked on my last genre which was a journal entry. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice?
 * I chose my topic because I feel as if when the Olympics start, the entire nation unites and becomes one strong, and super community. Being on the same side with everybody in the nation and forgetting temporarily about rivalries gives me a feeling of pride and happiness. Yes I am still happy with my topic because seeing the great accomplishments of the US Olympians made me even more proud to be from the US. **
 * My goal was to find a different fact for each FQI sheet. I achieved this and these facts amazed me. **
 * The facts that Michael Phelps held every world record for swimming except for most total medals, the basketball team has an Olympic record of 122-5, the hockey team beat Switzerland 29-0, the women's soccer team has the only women in the FIFA 100 and that the US in total with summer and winter Olympics have 2,547 medals in total, 1,024 are gold. This helped my understanding. This is because I got to research specific areas of topics that I would have skipped over in a traditional paper. **
 * I collected a ton of information in my research. The website, encyclopedia and newspaper article were easy to find information. The hardest part of finding information was to find new resources to collect information from. It would have been a lot easier if using a website for more than one resource was allowed. ** ||

<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 8 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entrie <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">s. 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 9 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.

___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: #4e7dc6; 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.