Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** ||  a website that is reliable and trustworthy so I can assure that my research is  accurate. I then completed the first FQI sheet based off of this site. ||  to look in a library and see what I could find. I decided that I wanted to use a <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"> book as one of my resources so I would have a variety of ideas and <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"> perspectives. It worked out well in the end and I was happy with my decision. || <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; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**5/7/12** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Five Possible Topics || <span style="font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Today I chose my five possible topics. They are basketball, softball, volleyball, Boston Celtics, and cancer. I would have liked all of these topics to use for this project and it concerned me that I might not be able to choose. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Chose and Emailed my Topic || <span style="font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Today I chose and emailed which of the five possible topics I would use for my research project. I considered each one individually to see what I could come up with as concepts to research. The one that I found myself spending the most time on and feeling the most passionate about ended up being cancer. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Completed First FQI Sheet || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;">T Today I completed a proper citation for my first resource. I made sure to find
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Completed Second FQI Sheet & Developed Character || <span style="font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Today I completed the second and third FQI sheets, as well as began to develop my character. I double checked that each of my resources was a dependable place to find information about my topic. I included the facts that made me stop and think or ask questions to make sure they were interesting, and would be effective in my project. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Completed Third FQI Sheet || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left;"> Today I completed my fourth and fifth FQI sheets. My curiosity inspired me
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || <span style="display: block; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">Worked on Narrative || Today I worked on my narrative. I was having trouble finding a place to start in my story, but after planning for a day, I was able to begin writing. In my opinion, the story has an interesting start and I am hoping I can keep the rest of my story interesting. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || Planning and Thinking || Today I thought about how the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, related to my research topic. I also looked through the instructions for this assignment and began planning what actions I will take in order to complete this project on time and to the best of my ability. I decided on doing a poem, a list, a journal entry, and a poster. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || Began Writing List and Poem || Today I started working on my poem. I used the technique that we learned in class and it really helped me understand how I should approach writing a poem. I also began working on my list. I decided to write a bucket list in the perspective of a cancer patient who only has one year left to live. It is actually very fun and has gotten me thinking about what kind of things that I want to do in my lifetime. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || Finished Writing my List and Poem || Today I finished writing my list and my poem. I added edits to the list as if it were the cancer patient writing extra notes. My poem was a bit more difficult because it required more thought to be put into it. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || Completed my Poster and Journal Entry || Today I completed my poster and my journal entry. The poster was very fun to create because I was able to make it colorful and add pictures. It gave me a chance to write cancer prevention tips in an intriguing way. I also enjoyed writing the journal entry. I wrote it in the perspective of a person who just had chemo therapy. Both of these genres allowed me to add a new subtopic about cancer that I had not written about yet. ||
 * <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?** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I chose to have cancer as my research topic because it is a topic that directly related to my family when my grandfather died of lung cancer. Ever since then, I have wanted to learn more about the symptoms and treatments. I am still happy that I chose to research cancer because I have learned useful information that can help me be more preventative of the disease, as well as facts that enhance my understanding of what cancer is and how it is treated.
 * 2) **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When I made the decision that cancer would be my research topic I made goals of what kinds of information I wanted to learn. The goals that I had for my research were to find out what one could do to prevent cancer, what happens inside of a person when they have cancer, and what it is like after having chemo therapy. I met each of these goals at different times during this project and was excited to learn each of these new facts **.**
 * 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? ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The facts that interested me the most about cancer were how to prevent it and what happens to the cells when cancer begins to grow. I was interested about cancer prevention facts because it could be beneficial to me now. The information about the cells was interesting because I learned that all humans have cancer cells in their bodies, including me, but not all people get cancer. This kind of project helped me get a better understanding of my topic than a traditional research paper because it required me to look into at least five different subtopics related to cancer. I most likely would not have learned about the effects of having chemo therapy if I was only required to write one paper about cancer because I would be focused on what it is rather than the treatments for it.
 * 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? **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">I was able to collect an abundance of information on my topic. Certain information was easier to find than other information. For example, it was much easier to find information about how to prevent cancer, than information about what it is like after chemo therapy.
 * 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. ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I learned all kinds of new things about the research process from this project. For one, I learned that a website is the best place to find a large portion of information because it can have different links and pages on the specific topic. Also, I learned that a book is a good place to conduct research from because it usually has a table of contents with different subtopics, and it could have precise facts as well as narrative pieces. Recording sources is a mandatory process when completing a research process because it reduces the likelihood of plagiarism, and gives credit to the people who provided the information. This project also confirmed that when completing a process like this, one must take the time to read through and be sure that they have chosen an accurate source to collect information from.
 * 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? ** ||

<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** _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 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__** _ 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. 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.