Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** ||
 * **Date** || **List the**
 * **5/7/12** || picked five topics || I chose soccer to be my topic. My 5 topics are soccer, basketball, boxing, comedians, and skydiving. I chose soccer because I think it will be the easiest to research. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || FQI #1 & FQI #2 || Used one website and one book to do the FQI's. Using the website was much easier. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || FQI #3 || Used book to do FQI. This book was on the science involved in soccer. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || FQI #4 || Used book to do FQI. This book was on the business of soccer. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || FQI #5 || Used website to do FQI. this book was on the rules of soccer. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || Narrative || Started writing my Narrative about Angelo a soccer player from Barcelona ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || think of more topics for MGRP || brainstorm ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || work on some poems || Wrote image peoms ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || finished one image poem and started to think about what questions I will use for the last reflection || might use questions 1, 3, 4, and 5 ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || finished flyer and started brainstorming on what other genres I can use || Might use journal entry or medical journal ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**6/7/12** || 1. I chose my topic, soccer, because the sport interests me. I have played the sport since kindergarden. When you win the feeling is amazing. I'm still happy with my decision because I have learned more about the sport then I knew before. My understanding of the sport and my interest has increased since the start of this project.

3. Many things I learned about interested me. I learned about the World Cup, that science is at work in soccer, and about some the highly skilled soccer players there are. The fact that interested me the most was the top ten list of top World Cup goal scorers. Learning about these facts through this type of research project helped a lot because I got to pick a topic that interested me and I got to conduct research in a simpler way than a traditional research project.

4. The information I found came from different sources. I found a lot of facts on soccer. the information was easier to find on a website because the important information was all in one article. In a book you have to sift through the material finding the important information. Overall it was easy to find the information because I knew what I was looking for. Most research projects I don't know what facts will make the project above the rest.

5. I think the best place to find information for a research project is on a website. Since website are on the internet you can search for exactly what you need. You have to take a chance when you try to find information in a book. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">**For this last reflection, you should choose**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; font-size: 15pt;">**four** <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;"> **of the nine questions listed here:**
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice?
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those?
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">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?
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information?
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">What did you learn about the research process from this project? Consider: the best places to find certain kinds of information; what sources are most credible; the best order for conducting your investigation; how to record information and sources; anything else that you learned or that confirmed what you already knew.
 * 6) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover?
 * 7) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">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?
 * 8) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">How did you decide on the organization of the pieces into a cohesive whole? Consider not only organization but use of transitional devices and packaging.
 * 9) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif;">What did you learn by working with your peers on revising and editing? Did they give you helpful advice? What was most helpful to you? What kinds of things did you learn from reading their pieces? ||

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; font-size: 9pt;">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: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 15pt; text-align: center;">**Process Journal Scoring Checklist**

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: center;">Total Process Journal Points /50 points

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 15pt;">**Score A Date 5/27 7 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> 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: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_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: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_ 4 points There were no journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 15pt;">**Score B ___ Date 6/5 7 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: 'Times New Roman',serif;">**Score C** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 15pt;">**Date 6/8b26 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is apparent <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">. 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: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">distracted. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_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: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #548dd4; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 17pt; text-align: center;">**Plus** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_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: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_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: 'Times New Roman',serif;">_ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.