Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? **I chose softball as my topic because I have played softball for 8 years and I have also have played on a travel team in the summer and a fall team for 3 or 4 years. Softball is my favorites sport and I think I did make the right choice. I am still very happy with my choice because I am learning a lot about the history of softball.** What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? **In my research I really wanted to learn about how the game started and how it came to be what it is today. I did meet my goal because I found out that softball actually first started at a Harvard-Yale football game and I also wanted to find out why they didn't call it baseball because it is a lot like baseball and I got my answer.** 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 is that when softball was created they did base it off of baseball but it's still it's own sport. Another fact that interested me the most is that when they first started softball, they used a boxing glove as the ball which I think is very interesting. I think this helped a lot more than a traditional research paper would have because I got to write a story, make a flyer, write a poem, and make a stats card for one of the girls that was on the USA softball team in the Olympics a couple years ago. I wouldn't have gotten to do that with a traditional research paper.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? **I collected a lot of information and I thought it was very easy to collect it because softball is a popular sport and a lot of people care about softball and there are people like Jennie Finch (former Olympic pitcher for the USA team) that I could easily research to get information.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">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="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">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="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">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. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">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; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Date** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**List the**
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/7/12** || FQI sheet || I worked on my FQI sheet and I am a little more than half way done with it. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/8/12** || FQI sheets and planning my character || I finished my first FQI sheet and I am almost done with my second one. I also started planning my character and started to imagine what she would look like. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/10/12** || FQI sheets and Narrative || I finished 4 of the FQI sheets and I started writing my narrative. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/16/12** || Narrative and FQI sheets || I finished my FQI sheets and I'm almost done with my narrative. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/18/12** || Narrative || I finished my narrative. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/22/12** || Research softball || Research on softball. I watched some videos of softball on youtube. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || Research || I researched more on softball and on youtube. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || Poem || I made the outline of my poem about softball. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || Poem and Flyer || Today I finished my poem and edited it, then I started making my flyer. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || 4 genres || Today I chose 4 genres that I would use in my project other than my narrative. I chose a flyer, poem, stats card, and a list. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** ||  || <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**For this last reflection, you should choose**  <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**four** <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;"> **of the nine questions listed here:**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;">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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**Process Journal Scoring Checklist**

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Total Process Journal Points /50 points

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Score A Date 5/27** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_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 journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Score B ___ Date 6/5 6 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. 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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">**Score C** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Date 6/8 28 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.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_ 4 points There were no new journal entries at the time of scoring. <span style="color: #487dc6; display: block; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 22.6667px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**Plus** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_10 points Student answered more than four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. _8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_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: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_ 4 points Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.