Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || Ice Cream Baseball Football <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Movies || __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">I chose this topic because I live right next to an apple farm, and I love eating apples. Yes, I am still happy with my choice.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Date** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**List the**
 * <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;">Brainstorm ideas for project || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Fruit
 * <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;">Start First FQI Sheet || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">This is a really good website for facts about apples. ||
 * <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;">Finished First FQI sheet/ Started second || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**If I do another fact webpage, will the same facts be repeated over and over again?** ||
 * <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;">Made character, started traits || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I like my character, I made him a really good kid...but I don’t know what I’m going to write the narrative about. ||
 * <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;">Character quiz/writing || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**I think I did good on the quiz, and I included a lot of the necessary details about my character.** ||
 * <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; text-decoration: none;">Worked on Narrative || I got about a half page done, but I still have a lot of work and planning to do. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || Finished Narrative || I Finished my narrative and emailed it. I think it is a good story. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || Additional Genres || I did about 1.5 other genres; I finished the poem and I am working on the list. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || Not in School / Six Flags; Finished 2 genres || I have 2 Other Resources completed; A list and a poem ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || Finished all genres, started introduction-dear reader || I have a list, poem, birth certificate, and chart. I don't have much done however on the introduction-dear reader ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** || Finished everything || <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; text-decoration: none;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;"> My goal was to do the best that I could on my research project, and I feel like I met that goal well.

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">I found a decent amount of research even though it was sometimes a bit tricky to conduct research because half of the links I clicked on were talking about the apple company.

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">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. __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">What I learned about the research process of this project is that conducting research can take a lot of effort depending on what topic you choose. With my topic, it was kind of tricky, but I found a few reliable sites that I might think about using in the future if I have another project like this. ||

<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 /50 points

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Score A Date 5/27** _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 journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Score B ___ Date 6/5 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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">**Score C** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Dateb6/8 28 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_ 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: 22.6667px; 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.