Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** ||  week! ||
 * **Date** || **List the**
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/7/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Review, sources || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Studying Pocono history will help for scavanger hunts in the summer! ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Sources, FQI || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">EasyBib is a good place to go when help is needed for citations ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">FQI, 2nd source || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-align: left;"> Try to find your 3rd and 4th sources ahead! It will help for next
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">FQI, 3rd source || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Make sure that you write page numbers so you don't have to go back and look! ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Finished 3rd and 4th FQI sheets and wrote the interview for the 5th source. || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; text-align: center;"> Remember to email all the FQI sheets when done to Mrs. Dabrush. Don't forget to tell her that only one source has page numbers! ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">All FQI sheets and wrote a half-page for the narrative. || My narrative is about a 13-year old boy who's friend dies because a bridge collapses when they are going across it. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || Narrative and project || I have finished my narrative and sent it in. I have also looked over the project. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || Lists, diary entries, poem. || I completed one of the diary entries and started working on the lists and poem. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || Lists, Poems, diary entries, dear reader, logo || I have changed my wiki title to "Pocono Lake Preserve" and my wiki format colors to colors that are seen a lot in Pocono Lake Preserve. I have also continued to work on the writing for the project, including the lists, poems, diary entries, and the dear reader. (Remember to upload writing!) ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || Lists, poems, diary entry, dear reader, CROT, and bibliography. || I finished my list, poem, and my diary entry. I have started working on my bibliography, CROT, and dear reader introduction. I have also made a college of pictures from Pocono Lake Preserve and will upload them to the wiki. ||
 * <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:** <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.
 * 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 chose "Pocono Lake Preserve" because it was something that I wanted to learn more about. The subject really interested me because I can relate to it and I already knew some interesting facts, and I wanted to learn more interesting facts. I am still happy with my choice because now I can use my knowledge over the summer for activities or treasure hunts.
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? In my research, I really wanted to learn more about the old ice house in Pocono and about the dam crashing in 1955. I fell like I have learned so much about the dam, but not as much about the ice house. Even though I did not get get that much information on the ice house for this project, this summer I will read more about it when I am actually in Pocono.
 * 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 about the dam crashing, the ice house, how the old Dining Camp used to be where my house is, really interested me. This project really helped me get a better understanding about Pocono Lake Preserve because I have never actually sat down to read and research it, but I have always wanted too, and this project was a perfect choice for me to do that. It was better than a research paper because I got to explore more things and even write different things that have to do with Pocono.
 * 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? I collected way more information than I needed too. Even though I collected a lot of information, I enjoyed it all because it taught me new things about Pocono, my favorite place. Most of the information was hard to find at first, because Pocono is an old-fashioned place and tries not to use technology, but I contacted someone who could help me find a book from Pocono. It was hard because all of the information about Pocono, is in Pocono. Towards the end, research became easier because I understood what I was doing and how to do it.
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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. The research process from this project taught me how to correctly research different kinds of topics. I also learned how to correctly source different types of websites, books, and interviews. I learned that you have to look around you for information, and you can't just google search your topic to find out more information. I think that books are better for researching because you know that it is all true because it was printed out, and not made up and put on the internet. The best order for conducting my investigation started with finding all of my sources. After I found all of my sources, I completed the FQI sheet for each one of them. Then, I was able to create all kinds of poems, lists, and stories about my topic with the information I researched.
 * 6) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? As a writer, I needed to use many strengths to complete this project. I am really good at making up poems or writing fictional stories. Sometimes, I even write stories and poems at home, which prepared me for the narrative and for writing a poem about Pocono. I discovered that I really liked the format of the diary entry, and how it was written, and that I am good at putting myself in another person's shoes to write about their feelings.
 * 7) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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? I decided that I would like to use a poem, a list, a diary entry and CROT for my genres because they let me express my own thoughts about Pocono, in a way that made me feel proud of myself. The CROT piece was the most challenging to write because I had never heard of it. The most fun and interesting piece to write was the activity schedule list because it reminded me of all the fun things you can do in Pocono, and I could picture myself or someone else participating in the activity.
 * 8) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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. I decided to organize my pieces the way I did, so that the reader could learn all about Pocono step-by-step, without being confused right away. I started with the introduction to introduce my topic. Then, I put the narrative so the reader could get a vision on the background of Pocono. Next, I put the diary entry so the reader would be able to see what it was like for the families who found Pocono Lake Preserve. After the diary entry, I put the list so the reader could see the schedule of a day in Pocono. Then I put the poem so that the reader would understand that trees are very important to the preserve because they provide oxygen for us to live. Finally, I put the CROT, so the reader would be able to feel at home in Pocono, when they are reading the piece.
 * 9) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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? Working with my peers really helped me, because they were not afraid to show me my mistakes, or give me advice on how to fix something. Most of the time, the advice was helpful, but sometimes it was not because the person had never heard of Pocono, and they kept getting it confused with a camp. It was really helpful when one of my peers who has never heard of Pocono, started asking all these questions about it, which gave me ideas to put into the Wiki. Reading my friends pieces, I learned about all kinds of different subjects that I wanted to know more about as well, so it was interesting to see what they came up with compared to my thoughts about the subject. ||

<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- 9 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 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: Times New Roman,serif;">**Score C** __**_20 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Date 6/8** _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. Plus _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 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.