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 ** || **Thought of research topics. ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It will be hard choosing just one topic to research. I have five good research topics of interests that I would like to pursue : Evolution of the horse, Native American art, stained glass, wolves and horse riding. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5/8/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Decision of research topics ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I choose Native American art forms to research because I thought it would be the most interesting to research and learn new things about and maybe then try the forms of art on my own over the summer. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5/10/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working on FQI sheets ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learning about different types of Native American pottery. I like how one type of pottery (Santo Domingo) uses mostly black geometric shapes on terra cotta colored pots with cream insets. Sometimes, they also might use elaborate bird designs on the pots as well. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5/16/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Completing FQIs and Character development ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learning about types of Native American beadwork. I learned that beadwork was done only by the women of the tribe. Also working on character development. My character’s name is Quahneah, which means morning dew. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5/18/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Completing FQIs. ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I now have all FQIs done. My FQIs are on different forms of Native American Art ; Dance, Beading, Pottery, Basket-weaving and Totem pole carving. There are still more art forms that I did not touch on such as silversmithing, cloth weaving, wood carving and so on. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5/22/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working on narrative. ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The last few days, I have been working on my narrative. I was so into writing it last night, that I stayed up until 10 o’clock writing three pages of my story. The topic of my story is dance and beadwork. It is also a cheesy romantic story where one loves another and the other, a cripple, love them back. I can’t wait to write more today! ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5/28/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working on MGRP components ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have decided to use a newspaper article, a poem, the narrative, an encyclopedia entry, and a website to create the project. I have been working on the poem over the weekend. It is about someone creating and sewing beads for horse equipment, For the website, I have chosen to use the art of basket weaving to complete this part. I have not decided what to use for the encyclopedia entry or the newspaper article. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5/30/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working on MGRP components ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have been using my FQI's and other resources to complete the components of my project. I finished the "website" that covered the topic of basket weaving. I decided to do the "6 room poem" approach to writing my topic of beadwork. I also decided to do a tribute to the totem carvers on the topic of totem poles. I also want to do a newspaper or an encyclopedia on the art of pottery making. I hope to complete the poem later tonight. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6/1/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working on MGRP Components ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I completed my poem on beadwork entitled "Beading fot the Horses". It is about the Lakota celebration of the 4th of July, where they create types of decorations for the horses to wear when they parade down the street. I also began working on the tribute to the totem pole carvers of the Northwest, such as the Quiluete, Chinnook, Tlingit and other tribes. I also have decided to do a newspaper article instead of an encyclopedia article. I hope to complete the tribute and start the newspaper article on pottery this weekend. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6/5/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working on Intro - Dear Reader ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have finished all the components of the MGRP, the narrative, the poem, the tribute, the newspaper article, and the "website". I am working on the "Introduction - Dear Reader" piece of the project. I am going to reread the example projects to get an idea of what to write for the introduction. I hope to finish the intro by Wednesday. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6/7/12 ** ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For this last reflection, you should choose  **four** of the **nine** questions listed here:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2) What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5) 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="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8) 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="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9) 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="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1) Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3) 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? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4) How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6)What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7) 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: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6/7/12 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reflection Questions ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1) I chose my topic of Native American Art because I love learning about art and creating art and I also like learning new things about other ancient cultures like the Native Americans, the Greeks and many others as well. I am still happy with my choice of native American Art because art plays a big part in my life, so I really found this topic interesting.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3) The facts about their forms of dance interested me the most. Also, I really liked learning about the different types of baskets and pottery the Native Americans created. This project did help me get a better understanding of my topic because I though Native American Art was made just for decoration, but in reality, the art <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">has many uses in everyday life.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4) It was easy to find information on my topic because the culture pops up in everyday life and there are so many articles, books and websites dedicated to promoting and preserving Native American art. The website articles had so many links to other sites that were filled with even more links. Books covered about every aspect of life and culture in less than two hundred pages with other sources as well.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6) I used my skill of writing and love of photos create this project. Writing really played a big part in the project and I enjoy writing stories that come from my imagination. I discovered that I really like to write creatively about topics that in classes that we would not normally cover. Also, I discovered that I love writing poems about things that I love and care about.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7) I decided that my project had to cover at least five forms of art. To do this, one genre had to cover one form of art. Each genre is portrayed in a way that I thought fitting for that form of art, wether it be in a poem, a tribute, a website, or a newspaper article. The hardest piece for me to write was the narrative. Although I had a lot of fun writing it, I wanted to add so much to the story, but I knew it would be a least another ten pages. I had quite a bit of trouble trying to omit things and ideas,but in the end, I really liked writing it. The most fun and interesting piece to write was the tribute because I got to express the creativity of the totem pole carvers in a way that really seemed fitting. I loved learning about totem poles and the detail and thought that goes into creating one. ||

<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 5/22** _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;">. <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 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__** _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** _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** _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.