Process+Journal

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || •Photography •Music •Baking •Soccer •<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bruins/hockey || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I think I am going to do the Bruins because that is one of my favorite topics out of all of my options. || •<span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Bruins || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I chose the Bruins because I really love watching hockey and the Bruins are my favorite team. || <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 20px;">**four** <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;"> **of the nine questions listed here:**
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**Date** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**List the**
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/7/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Chose 5 topics:
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Chose:
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">FQI 1 || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: center;">I worked on the first FQI sheet and am almost finished ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">FQI 2 || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I finished my 2nd FQI and worked on my character. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">FQI 3,4 and 5 || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: center;">**I finished my 3rd, 4th and 5th FQI sheets** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Narrative || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Today I did a page and one half of my narrative. It is about a high school hockey player who wants to make it on the Bruins. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || Narrative || My narrative ended up being about 4 or 5 pages long. The high school hockey player is called Charlie Stansel and he and his friend Brad aka Moose, make it to the Bruins minor league team. This means they have the chance to be brought up to the Boston Bruins or another team. For an added affect I made a music mix of Bruins songs and put it on the narrative as an option to play while reading. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || List and poem || In class I wrote a list of things that a Bruins player would need to pack for a road game and I wrote a 6 room poem. Then I made them have really cool fonts and put them into the project. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || Videos || To enhance the project I added a video to a few different places on my wiki. I am going add more videos to to each of the pages if I can find an appropriate one that relates to the topic. I am also going to have to add in my repeating element which is video clips that relate to the specific sub-topic on the page. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** ||  || I've done 3 of my 4 other genres. I am deciding between a roster or a a player card. I have found examples of both on the Boston Bruins website. I also have to add in my bibliography. I am also thinking about doing a 5th genre of a player application sheet and filling in the information with one of the Bruins players like Tyler Seguin or Brad Marchand. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/7/12** ||  || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">**For this last reflection, you should choose**
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? I chose the Bruins because I just started to seriously watch them and become a big fan this year. I am still very happy with my choice because I learned so much more about them. Now I can discuss statistics and players with my dad that I had no idea about before this project.
 * 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? I collected a lot of information about the Bruins I was able to find a lot of youtube videos that I had never watched and I was able to read a lot of articles on websites other than the Bruins website or the National Hockey League's website that I never would have found out about.
 * 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. I learned that researching takes a lot more than looking at one website or one book. The information should be listed on more than one source for it to be verified. I did find that I, personally, like to use websites as my sources because I can find the information by pressing a few buttons and it is fast to double check things with. Quotes can easily be copied and pasted unlike in books, when you have to type the whole thing out, or in videos when you have to transcribe the words and figure them out to the best of your ability.
 * 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? From working with my friends on editing and revising my narrative specifically, I found that other people are more apt to find spelling and grammar mistakes that I might have missed no matter how many times I looked at the piece. From reading other people's pieces I learned that they were a lot better of writers and had greater imaginations than I initially thought before I read their narratives. ||

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 12px;">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: 20px; 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: 20px;">**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: 20px;">**Score B ___ Date 6/5__** _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: 20px;">**Date 6/8** _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: 22.6667px; text-align: center;">**Plus** _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.