Process+Journal

**Process Journal**


 * **Date** || **List the** **items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts****Reflections****Concerns****Inspirations****Contemplations** ||
 * **5/7/12** || Gathering Information || I chose the road of avoiding a research project on Mark Wahlberg ||
 * **5/8/12** || Gathering Information || A terrible excuse for an FQI sheet ||
 * **5/10/12** || Gathering Information || Another terrible excuse for an FQI sheet, (I'm not taking a good road) ||
 * **5/16/12** || Organizing and Writing || I'm organizing and writing but for what, where did this writing run off to. (my future self is hating this self for not finishing work today) ||
 * **5/18/12** || Writing || nothing i chose the easy road that becomes harder nearing the end ||
 * **5/22/12** || Writing || On the road to recovery ||
 * **5/28/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">list, poem || I wrote a poem and a list today about DNA and mutations. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">wiki || I made edits to my wikispaces making it look really cool and inspirational and down right spectacular!.. not really ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">poem, list || I revised my poem ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">poem, list || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none;">I inserted the poem and list into the wikispaces for further revisions. Oh and decided on a ad and letter...!!! yay ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right;">**6/7/12** || My reflection || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive;"> **For this last reflection, you should choose**   **four** **of the nine questions listed here:**

I chose my topic because It sounded fairly interesting and elaborate. The main reason I chose this topic was because at the time I was told to think of a topic to research I was thinking about what it means to be human and why our greatest adaptation and advantage over every other living thing on this planet is our brain and impossible intelligence. I sat back and thought how we evolve and we can change over time and how it all begins with a single mutation that finds its way into the world over many generations. I then decided to look up these mutations that are known of today. I'm happy that I chose my topic because It has a wide range of information and I do not lose interest.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**What facts about your topic interested you most?** The facts that really caught my attention were the ones that involved a mutation that was globally beneficial and not just an isolated oddity that was potentially harmful.

I gathered a good amount of information as to be expected because mutations especially the really cools ones are real wonders that have a lot to be thought upon and discussed. People study these unique characteristics and normally a a page may only discuss one mutation but it is filled with information regarding this one mutation, there is no absence of news to be heard on these prospects of human nature.
 * How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information?**


 * <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? ** I found my creativity and imagination to be a huge helpful factor in working on this project. The strength I discovered is that I like to learn and discover new ideas and ways of thinking.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**What piece was the hardest or most challenging to write? Why? The most fun or interesting? Why?** The piece I found most difficult to write was this very process journal because I get lost in the work and forget or ignore the process in which I complete these tasks that have been put before me. It isn't that I cannot explain myself rather I have trouble spewing my thoughts through this keyboard or a pencil into a concise, intelligent, well written piece. My mind brings into thought so many opinions and stories and questions and large scale issues and benefits of any possible idea that comes my way. Sometimes I find myself coming up with a story in my head after I hear a single word or a few sentences on something that seems interesting and or important and fun. I even imagine this whole thinking process and what it could look like. I turn words into pictures, poems into stories, and pages of information into movies. I enjoy it. ||

<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;">**Process Journal Scoring Checklist** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-align: center;">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 5 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 25 points** <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. <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;">**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. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_8-9 points Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses. _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.