Process+journal

**Process Journal**

Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? **I chose this topic because he is my favorite basketball player and i wanted to learn more about him. I am still happy with my choice because it was never boring learning more about him.** What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? **I had many goals for this research. Like learning about Ray's childhood and knowing what drove him to be where he is today. I met those goals with the research I did.** 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? I collected a lot of information. **It was easy to find it because in every article I read, I learned new facts about him and his life.** 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. **I learned** ** that it is best to use many ****different sources. For example, in a video the topic (Ray Allen) talks about things people may not know about him where as in writings, most people talk about the same topic regarding him.** ** The FQI sheets were very helpful and taught me a great way to take down information when I read/heard it. Most things I learned were things I did not know about Ray Allen. I enjoyed learning new things about him and his life. ** What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? **During this project I used many writing skills like listing things in writing, not repeating words and making some things that may seem boring more interesting by the style I wrote in. I discovered I can do things like movie posters and just give little pieces of information with out ruining the story.** 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? 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. 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? ||
 * **Date** || **List the** **items you** **worked on** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**and/or** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**completed** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**each day.** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times-roman,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">* <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**What road did you choose?** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Thoughts** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Reflections** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Concerns** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; margin-bottom: 0in; 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; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">*Read what the project is || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I have 5 topics but I can’t decide what I want to do. ||
 * <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; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">*Chose final topic || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I chose Ray Allen ||
 * <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; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">*Going to start FQI sheet || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**finished one FQI sheet** ||
 * <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; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Continue working on FQI’s || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">I'm having trouble finding different sources ||
 * <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; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">working on FQI’s || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**Found sources and finished all FQI sheets and finished 3 genres** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/22/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Continue narrative || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Fun to write it. I already finished 3 pages on it ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || work on wiki || Finished narrative and added it to my wiki ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || work on wiki || I put a few genres on it by adding attachments. Wiki spaces doesn't seem as confusing anymore ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || Continue working on wiki || Can't figure out how to put some pages documents on open office to drag to wiki spaces so I put them on this by adding attachments ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || Work on dear reader || I got confused on this part, but then I figured it out by reading the checklist ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** ||  || <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**For this last reflection, you should choose**  <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 15pt; 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: 9pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.17in; 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: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**Process Journal Scoring Checklist**

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: timesnewromanpsmt,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Total Process Journal Points /50 points

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0.06in; text-decoration: none;">**Score A Date 5/28 8 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; 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; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">_8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. Progress toward the final collection is visible <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">. 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; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; 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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; 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: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">**Score B ___ Date 6/4 8 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; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">**Score C** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 15pt; text-decoration: none;">**Date 6/8 24 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">_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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">. 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; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; 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; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; 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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; 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: 17pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**Plus** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">_10 points Student answered more than four of the final reflection <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"> questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">_8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; 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; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">_ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.