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: Times,serif;">Went over rubric || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I now understand the rubric and understand the project ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Picked a topic || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I picked skateboarding to research ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**05/10/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Picked a certain person to research || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: center;">**I picked the pro skater Torey Pudwill to research** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Tried to find a good website/webpage || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I couldn't find any websites but I found a good movie I could use for a resource ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**05/18/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Made my character || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: center;">**I have a strong idea of my character** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || started narrative || I need to work more on my narrative and I feel I have a good start ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || did research || I found more useful and valuable information to use in my project ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || did research || I found lots of good information and things to use ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || started a list || I started a "to do" list for my project ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || worked on my list || I finished my list and feel that it I have a good or ok list ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/7/12** || the questions im doing are 1, 4, 6, and 7 || **For this last reflection, you should choose**


 * four of the nine questions listed here:**


 * 1. Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice?**

I choose my my topic because I enjoy learning about skateboarding and it is a sport that I love to do. I am always wanting to learn more about the stuff I enjoy.


 * 4. How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information?**

I collected a lot of information for this project. It was actually pretty difficult do to the fact that most of the online resources were either blocked, or unreliable.


 * 6. What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover?**

I used my strength of organization on this project. A new strength that I discovered was I am ok at making bullets into a longer sentence/ statement.


 * 7. 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?**

In deciding my genres, I picked ones that I knew weren’t going to be hard for me. I think that the poster was one of the more challenging ones because I wasn’t sure if I should have put lots of writing, or just a few facts. I think that the news article was the most interesting because it was fun for me to learn exactly how skateboarding developed into what it is today. || <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- 8 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.

_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 6/5 7 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(DO NOT PRE-Complete the entries prior to the end of the day!). 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 27 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 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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> 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.