Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

**What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || **four**  **of the nine questions listed here:** Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? I chose the topic of the Vietnam War and I'm not exactly happy now about that choice, however I feel fulfilled afterwards, and proud that I did this for my dad. My dad originally strongly suggested that I didn't use the Vietnam War as my topic. I defied him and choose the Vietnam War anyways. I didn't tell him until I needed my interview with him. He originally was upset by this but slowly transitioned into pride in his son.
 * **Date** || **List the** **items you** **worked on** **and/or** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**completed** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**each day.** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">*
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/7/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I worked on researching some topics I wish to write about || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I found a lot of great ideas for this project that I could write very well. After finding these the project doesn't seem so daunting to me. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I worked on my second FQI sheet || This was more difficult than I expected to find multiple resources. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || I worked on my third FQI sheet || I was able to find this resource but barely and I'm beginning to worry on how his with affect my project later on. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || I thought up good names for a character and some character traits. || This part of the process was quite easy and I had fun with this process. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || I scrapped the name and came up with a new name || The name I chose was to old fashioned so I switched it out for a more modern name. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || I worked extremely hard on my narrative only to scrap a page of bad material. || This was very aggravating and caused me a lot of trouble because it cut down my time to only 3 days. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || I began to work on my "Support the Troops" Poster || Is it possible to copy and paste a poster into a word document, because I've been have some trouble with that. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || Today I began working on my list || Would it be okay for me to put cigarettes and cards into the care package because I've been told that's what most people wanted. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || I finished my poster. || I'm having difficulty making making my poster go on to my wiki page. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || I began working on my newspaper article on Pol Pot ||  ||
 * <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;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those?
 * 2) <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? <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">I was interested in how the Vietnam War started because of a miscommunication between Northern Vietnam and Southern Vietnam exploded into a massive war.
 * 3) <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?
 * 4) <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.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? I used my strengths as a detailed writer to put emphasis on the scenes of action and I feel make the reader feel as though they are being sucked into the past and the battle that is unfolding around them. I also feel that my strengths is my love for poetry which really helped me use poetry to my advantage in the project.
 * 6) <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? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">The criteria I used to choose my genres was pick genres that I felt confident writing. The hardest piece for me to write was my newspaper article And this was the hardest for me because I never wrote one before. The piece that I enjoyed working on the most was the narrative. I enjoyed this because there was a world of possibilities to choose from. I was was an open canvas that I could paint on anyway I liked.
 * 7) <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.
 * 8) <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: 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 5/28 7 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. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> 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 6/4/ 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: Times New Roman,serif;">**Score C** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Date 6/8 28 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.

<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: 22px; 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.