7.+Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || facebook stop and shop disney <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">airplanes || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">I’m really curious if Jeff Bezos ever had any regrets on his decision making. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Date** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**List the**
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/7/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">ebay
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/8/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">Facebook || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">Decided to use the topic of Facebook to use on the project. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/10/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">FQI 1 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">Began to start on the first FQI sheet on a New York Times Article. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/16/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">FQI 2 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">Finished my 1st and 2nd FQI sheet. Seeking for a 3rd resource. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/18/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">FQI 3 || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">Finished 3 of the 5 FQI sheet, started to work on the 4th FQI sheet. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/22/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">Narrative Writing Draft || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">Finished all 5 FQI sheets, and almost done with the draft of the Narrative Story. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || Narrative Writing Final || Sent the Narrative Story to Mrs. Dabrush. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || Genre || I had to decide which genre to start with and chose the genre of a poem. Therefore, I began to write a poem of the topic of Facebook. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || Genre || Started to work on the genre of advertisement showing the price of Facebook. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || Genre || Finished both the poem and the advertisement genre. Moving on to the list and the Chart genre. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** || Final reflection || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">I chose my topic because there was one night where I didn't know what I wanted to know more about but as I came across a tab on my computer I saw Facebook and that was the point where I got really curious. Where did Facebook come from? How did it start? Who came up with the idea? All these different questions began to overwhelm in my head. I was glad that I was able to go across Facebook because now with all the research done I've learned many new things about it. For example, I learned that Facebook was started by a man named, Mark Zuckerberg.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">What facts that interested me the most was the decisions Mark Zuckerberg made for the company. For example, with the decisions he made for the company, it helped keep the company running till this day. An important decision Marck Zuckerberg made was when Yahoo offered to buy Facebook for a vast amount of money, but he turned it down. With the hard work he made with his colleges, the company was worth up to $1.5 billion. This kind of project tremendously helped give a better understanding of Facebook than a traditional kind of research paper. Unlike traditional research papers, this was an opportunity to explore and create our own ways to show others about our topics. Not only that but it was a chance to show our creativity. In contrast, traditional research paper is straight out writing without any other ways to show about the topic.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">In my opinion, researching about the topic was one of the highlight of the project because going around the internet and finding out facts about Facebook that I have never even heard of. During the research there were so much information it was hard to choose the most important fact because they were all equally interesting and important. There were so much information that it made it easy to find information due to the amount already given.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">Researching about Facebook was an interesting experience. I learned many things through this like how much the company costs, how the company began, what types of "road block" the company had to face, what the workers are doing to keep the company running, etc. Since there are so many information on the internet, in my opinion, I believe that using databases are reliable and accurate. Not only that but for some information given by the databases provides citations and other reliable links to other resources. If the information does not provide citations, the perfect recourse to use is, __Easybib__, because it's simple, and accurate. Throughout the researching, every time I overcame a new interesting fact I would take notes about it and where to find it again. But since there were too many facts, I brainstormed all the facts and determine which of them would help me most with creating the project as interesting and the best that it could be. From the beginning to the end of the project I had a blast with my topic, Facebook.

<span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">**For this last reflection, you should choose**  <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 21.3333px; text-decoration: none;">**four** <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;"> **of the nine questions listed here:** Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? 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? How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? 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; font-size: 17.3333px; 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; font-size: 17.3333px; 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; font-size: 17.3333px; 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; font-size: 17.3333px; 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; 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 8 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.

_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 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 9 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** __**_20 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Date 6/8 30 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. Plus _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. <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.