Process+Journal

Thoughts Reflections Concerns Inspirations Contemplations || Process Journal The Road Not Taken How we will be graded ||< This project sounds like there is a lot to do bet we have a lot of time to do it. || Learned what an FQI was Found a few resources. ||< I thinks all of the papers we have to fill out are time consuming but with help us once we get to the narrative assessment. || Cited some off my resources. Started FQI 1 ||< Citing is one of the harder things about this project but I know why we do this. || 1. Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3. How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4. What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">The topic I choose was polar bear extinction and I am very happy that I choose it. I picked this because I love animals and to see an animal never exists on this earth again is very sad, so I choose this topic to maybe see what I could do. I am happy with my decision because now I know more about this and why it was happening. That goes right into what my goals were for this research project. My goal in this project was to come out with a better understanding of why and how this is happening. I have meet those goals. I did this project for a purpose and because I had to but I do like the topic I choose. Collecting information was very easy. I would look up polar bear extinction and 10 full goggle pages would show up. That was the easy part. The only hard part of finding information was finding the different genres about my topic. I had to do some specific searches to do that but I found all of the information in the end. Some strengths I used as a writer in this is that all of the genres I chose to do interested me and were fun to write. We I have something fun to write I will have fun with. Writing poems is not a problem for me and they are fun so it all worked out. Overall this project was difficult but hard at the same time. ||  ||<   ||
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Date ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">List the items you worked on and/or completed each day. ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What road did you choose?
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/7/12 ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The assignment
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/8/12 ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Found my final topic of research.
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/10/12 ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Learned how to cite.
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/16/12 ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wrote our character assignment. ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Today I had fun. This assignment was very creative and easy. ||
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/18/12 ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Finished all my FQI’s for Monday. ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">All of the information is very useful and writing the information in the narrative is going to be easy. ||
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/22/12 ||< <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times,serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Worked on my narrative ||< <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times,serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">My narrative is coming along very well and I think that it isn't that hard because it is fun. ||
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/28/12 ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; text-align: left;">Looked over The Road Not Taken ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; text-align: left;">I realized that there is a inner meaning to the poem. ||
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/30/12 ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: small;">I looked over my wiki to see what I could do. ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">This project isn't going to be that hard. It is not as tough as I though. ||
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">6/1/12 ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; text-align: left;">I started to work on my list. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; text-align: left;">Posted my poem. ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; text-align: left;">All of the mini lessons in the class are helping a ton. ||
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">6/5/12 ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">I worked on my appearance of my wiki. I found out how to edit the navigation bar. ||< <span style="display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Changing the appearance of my wiki is actually very fun. It is looking very good so far. ||
 * < <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">6/7/12 ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**FINAL JOURNAL ENTRY**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Adapted from ©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Process Journal Scoring Checklist

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Total Process Journal Points /50 points

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Score A Date **5/28 9 points** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_10 points <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Student is up to date with her/his journal entries <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">. Progress toward the final collection is apparent. There is evidence of thoughtful reflection about the components of the project. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The reader is not distracted by grammar/spelling errors.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_8-9 points Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries. <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">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 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">. While there are some grammar/spelling errors, the reader is not distracted. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_ 4 points There were no journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Score B _ Date 6/5 7 points <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_8-9 point <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">s Student is almost up to date with her/his journal entries <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">. 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="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_5-6 points Student has fallen behind in his journal entries. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Progress toward the final collection is inconsistent; work needs to ramp up. The entries report rather than reflect. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Reader is distracted by grammar/spelling errors. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Score C _30 points Date 6/9 30 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="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Plus _10 points Student answered more than four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_5-6 points Students answered some of the final reflection questions. The responses answered the questions with little elaboration or insight. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">_ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.