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** || Looked for resources || There were lots of sources that were hard to chose from. But there was one that stuck out to me. Thankfully, I found a resource with an author, which means it is probably useful. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || Completed FQI sheet 1 || Completing the FQI sheet was difficult. I learned a lot more about basketball. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || FQI 2 || I don't know why, but this FQI sheet was a lot more easier. I also learned even more about basketball. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || FQI 3 || I finally completed the third FQI sheet, which took me a while. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || Completed all FQI sheets || Finally, I was done with all FQI sheets, making me have a lot of knowledge about basketball. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || Videos on youtube about basketball || Watching videos was a lot easier to understand than reading from an article. I could picture the people in my head from actually seeing a visual of them. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || Viewed the Road Not Taken. || This was a very effective poem. It made me think a lot. I made a lot of connections with this poem. It also helped me write some of my story. I plugged in my thoughts on another piece of paper too! ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || Finished the Narrative || Today I finally finished the narrative. This was almost a 4 page story that I wrote that involved writing about basketball. This was one of the best stories I have ever written, and I enjoyed doing this! ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || I chose what genres I was going to do. || Today I chose four genres, which were a list, poem, flyer, and commercial. This is going to be fun, because I am very good at making flyers, lists and poems. The harder part about this will be created a commercial because I will have to use imovie for this part, which can sometimes be very difficult. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || Created the genres || I was really successful today. Considering that we need at least 5 genres by the end of the day on Friday, I have 4 done! All I need now is to create a commercial, and this is a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. It's actually a lot easier! ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',serif; text-align: right;">**6/7/12** ||  || ==For my topic, I chose to do research on basketball. Why? Because I love this game! I'm so glad I chose this topic. Researching basketball was somewhat easy, because I already knew a lot about it. There were lots and lots of articles that contained many facts that were helpful, and there articles that didn't help at all. I learned a lot more than I thought I was going to learn too! I had lots of goals during the researching part of this project. One goal that I had was that I needed to find at least 10 facts that I didn't know about basketball. Thankfully, I reached my goal. Another goal was that I must find at least 5 websites that would have helped me with my project. Thankfully again, I reached that goal as well. There were numerous amount of interesting facts that I learned doing this research. One fact that I never knew was that when basketball first started off, instead of a basket that the ball gets shot into today, there were actual baskets when the game was first invented. Peach baskets in fact! Isn't that cool? Another fact I never knew about basketball is that the first ever basketball was brown. Today, most basketballs, including NBA basketballs, have a light orange color. Doing this research helped me get a better understanding of my topic than a more traditional kind of research paper because rather than reading the repeated facts in a newspaper about basketball, I read facts that no one ever put in newspapers. Overall, I think it was pretty easy to finish this project. It's not hard to simply look up a couple of facts from a trusted website, jot them down a piece of paper, and put them into a well written story. At least it's not for me! All-inclusive, I collected a lot of information. Every single fact help me right a lot! I enjoyed doing this project, and I hope you learned a lot about basketball! ==

<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** <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. 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. Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. _ 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 9 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. 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. <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="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">**Score C _20 points** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 15pt;">**Date 6/8 28 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. 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. 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. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_ 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.


 * Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan**