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 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Working on 1st FQI sheet || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I am doing well with my first FQI sheet. I am a bit confused on what to do for the interpretations. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">5/8/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Finishing up 1st FQI sheet || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I have most of my FQI sheet done and I am starting to understand what to do with the interpretations. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">5/10/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Starting 2nd FQI sheet || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I finished my first FQI sheet and I am starting on my second. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">5/16/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Finishing 2nd FQI sheet; Starting 3rd FQI sheet || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I finished my second FQI sheet and I started my third FQI sheet. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">5/18/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Finishing 3rd FQI sheet and starting 4th FQI sheet || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I finished my third FQI sheet and started my fourth FQI sheet. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">5/22/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I finished all my FQI sheets and I am starting to work on my narrative || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I love this narrative because I get to use my creativity ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">5/28/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I am not sure what to do now. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I am confused now what to do because we finished our FQI sheets. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">5/30/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I get what we are supposed to do and I am on a roll. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I have figured out what I need to do through the mental block I had so now I am making steady progress on my list and my poem and I starting to enjoy this project a little. The 6 rooms strategy really helped me start my poem and it is coming along well. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">6/1/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I am on a roll finding topics to use for this project. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I am liking this project because I get to use my creativity when working on my genres. I love all the information I've learned that I can use to my own Airedale Terrier. I feel so different in a good way to work on Airedales because they are so near to my heart and the genres are so easy for me to research and show you what Airedales are used for and what they are like. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">06/05/12 || All the information that I have learned has made me want to do more than the four assigned genres. || I have found all my four assigned genres and they are almost finished but this topic wants me to do more. I want to learn more and have you learn more about this amazing breed. I have all my five genres that I am going to do and I am making sure that they are better than ever. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">6/7/12 ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">For this last reflection, you should choose

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">four of the nine questions listed here:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? ** I chose my topic because I have an Airedale Terrier myself and he means the world to me so I wanted to research more things about him to see if I was doing anything wrong. Thanks to me choosing this topic, I now know what are the right ways to bathe him and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't chosen Airedale Terriers. I am very happy that I chose this topic because if I hadn't I think my dog would be worse off but now I can make sure I turn all the things I did wrong into doing them right. **
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? ** I honestly didn't have any goals but I did want to know if I had being doing the routines with my dog wrong for years. Like I said, I didn't really set the bar too high but if I did, I definitely succeeded in surpassing that goal. **
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">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? ** I think the facts that Airedales had been used in more jobs as police and war dogs in Britain and Germany but they were used all over the world. I had no clue that Airedales are used to catch big animals in Africa and India. I do believe studying this topic for so long, I was able to get a better understanding and it makes the project more relatable and exciting to finish because just writing a simple research paper is boring and this project allowed us to be more creative. **
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? ** I collected so much information, my FQI sheets are filled with all those facts and I think I did a good job finding all those facts. At first, I couldn't find any facts and information for my life but I was able to pick up my work and I got all the information that I needed. **
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">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 think I got most of my information that wasn't repeated on the AKC website. Since Airedales are a dog breed, all the information is best to find on the American Kennel Club website. **
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? ** I have always liked writing and I am glad we were assigned this project to convey all our studies to you in a writing fashion. I like this project and I believe that it has helped my writing. My strengths that I used were my imagination when I wrote because I have a huge imagination and I put that into my writing as much as I could. **
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">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="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">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="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">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="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Adapted from ©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Process Journal Scoring Checklist

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Total Process Journal Points /50 points

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Score A Date 5/27 7 points <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_ 4 points There were no journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Score B _ Date 6/5 <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Score C _30 points Date 6/8 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_ <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Plus <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_1 <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">0 points Student answered more than four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">_ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.