Process+journal

**Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || •reviewed project || It wasn't hard at all because we really didn't do any work today all we did was review ||
 * **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;">reviewed grades
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** ||  ||   ||
 * <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**

<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:**
 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice?
 * 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?
 * 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.
 * 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 5 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. 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** __**_20 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Date** <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. 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** <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. <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.