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;">IDEAS || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I thought about the idea I might use for the project. I am going to watch the Jeff Bezos video about passion tonight to get more of an idea of what to do. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">planning || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Today I chose the topic I am going to research which is football. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">research || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">I started research fro my first FQI sheet and am half way done with my first sheet. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Research || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Today I started my third FQI sheet and I feel good about my place in this project. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">research || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: center;">I finished four FQI sheets today on the the book Football and started on Football all-pro. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Research/writing || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I finished my last FQI sheet and I am a page and a half into my writing. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || Writing || I finished my narrative a couple days ago and am now looking for poems to write or any other genres. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || Writing || I wrote a poem and believe it is good enough to put in the MGRP. Now I just need to write two more genres. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || Writing || I am working on a mystery story for my third genre and hope to be done by Sunday. I am deciding what my last genre should be. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || Writing || I finished the mystery story and finished a poster for my last genre. I have also finished my dear reader and the bibliography. Now all I need to do is finish the process journal then do some last minute editing. ||
 * <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="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">**four 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? I choose my topic because it is something I am very interested in and can never learn enough about. I am very happy with my choice because I no can walk away from this knowing a whole lot more about something I love.
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">//**What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those?**// My goals for this project were to learn more about the beginning of NFL and to express what I have learned from football to the reader. I am very confident i achieved those goals because of the great amount of time and effort put into this project.
 * 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? The facts that interested me the most during this project were the ones about the start of the NFL because everyone knows what goes on in the NFL toady but no many know what has happened in the past to create what the league is today. This project has helped me learn more than I would have by doing a traditional research paper because I am getting a sense of what the people felt like by putting myself into the stories and creating them from a perspective.
 * 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?**// It was very easy to find information needed for the project because of all the resources available such as the school library and computers. Most of the websites I found were reliable and set up by the NFL.
 * 5) //**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">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? **//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> I chose my genre by my skills. I know I can write good poems in a short amount of time and I can write stories. But the stories take me a lot longer to write. So I used the time I saved from writing the poems and poster to write a mystery story. This was the most fun to write because I could really put my self in the mind of another person and write how I would feel in that scenario and let my ideas flow for about six pages. ||

<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 5/27/12 8 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> 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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. 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 8points__** ___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 25 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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. 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 <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;">_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.