Process+Journal

**Process Journal** Matt Ranieri

•Listened to Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” •Listened to Jeff Bezos Video •Listed five research topics || •This is going to be a fun project because of the fact that each student gets to research something they are interested in. It is tough to choose a topic because there are so many good ones. I am concerned that if a topic is too narrow it will be hard to write about. All of my topics are about sports stories and how people have reacted to them. I am also concerned about all the due dates we have and I might be overwhelmed. || •Used the tools that were given to us in class • Also looked at the examples to make my decision. || •Concerned if I can keep the teacher interested in the topic. •Thinking of how to introduce new information with each writing •Inspired by Lebron because he is my favorite player and he has made some interesting decisions throughout his life || •First FQI sheet is on LeBron’s childhood and High School career. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Found first resource on Bio .com •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Cited first source using the site they had the source cited for me. || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Concerned about how I can keep adding information each piece of work or each genre I write. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Inspired by how Lebron is making his decision and how he decided to stay in High School for his Senior and Junior years when he could have gone to NBA in sophomore year. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Thinking of which genre to use for the topic but having a little trouble. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Concerned about what genre to pick for each topic. || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Made a imaginary character that I’m going to present tomorrow. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Found a movie on lebron’s life before the NBA || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Concerned if I can keep the teacher interested in the topic. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Inspired by the movie to write about a character close to that movie. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Contemplating about which genres to use || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Worked on creating character •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Found movie on LeBron’s decision. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">There is also a commercial on LeBron being a role model || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Concerned about finishing homework this week with state cup and a lot of other homework. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Inspired by LeBron’s commercial on the dropping out of school situation with many kids around America. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Still contemplating about which Genres to use. •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Thinking about staying after next week •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Reflecting on the length of this project. This project is very long and it is a lot of hard work. I think I can turn out with a good grade though. || •found a genre •Using poem for Genre •Making poem about LeBron Winning high school championship || •Concerned about finishing only have three out of five genres. •Not sure what other genres to pick, I have poetry, and list. •Inspired by Lebron's quest to get a title. •Thinking about changing poem or making it better || •List about Lebron James' ways to win championship •Found movie of NBA all stars talking about LeBron as Rookie. || •Inspired By Mrs. Dabrush when she showed us a list •Concerned about other topics for genres. •Thinking about using a player card but not sure how. || •Going to be about Lebron and what he is like. •Finished poem today •Having trouble with repented. || •Concerned about repented •Thinking about using stat sheet as last Genre •Length of project is getting shorter by the day. It seems that by doing all the hard work in the beginning the project is a lot easier to handle now. || •Using ESPN stat sheet for that. •Finishing up project. •Still haven't found repented. || •Concerned about repented Thinking about using the burned Lebron James Jersey or His Jerseys over the years and how they have changed •Didn't do much today though because of a long day at six flags and soccer practice. Hopefully this doesn't send me back a few steps. || •LeBrons Jersey being burned and fans shouting his name or the names of his teams. •Finishing up project in a few days. || •No more concerns. •Reflecting on project. This topic is very important to me and I'm glad I had a chance to choose it. •Creating citations for the sources on one separate document. •Thank you Mrs. Dabrush for the checklist, it was very helpful. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**The reason for the decision on my topic is the hatred that one player can get. I love LeBron James as a basketball player and a person. He is a three time MVP and he is just plain fun to watch. But he makes one decision to go to the Miami Heat and the whole league and all the fans hate him. He also made many other decisions coming to the NBA which fascinated myself. For example he came straight out of high school which shows how good he thought he was. I still and amazed with his game and I'm glad I chose this topic. He made many big decisions and took roads that not many took and I could relate to the poem "The road Not taken" which was another reason I chose the topic.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Some of the goals that I had for this research topic was to prove everyone wrong about LeBron, show people that a research project can be done on a sports player, and improve my knowing and understanding of genres. I met the goal of proving people wrong about LeBron because i proved myself wrong first of all. I also met the goal** **that a good research project can be done on a sports player** **because I believe that this was a good project. Basically I've met all three goals because I now know a greater understanding of the genres. It was a lot easier for me to choose my genres after the quick mini lessons that were taught on various genres. These three goals were very achievable but if there was one problem that I would need to work on it would be spreading my time out correctly. This is a hard project and I'm trying to cram a lot in the last minute.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**For this project I found boat loads of research. This Guy is a famous superstar and he has many people who like him. It was a piece of cake looking for information on him. Although it was very easy most of the information was criticizing him so it was hard to find good information on him. LeBron has many "H** **aters" as he likes to call them which gives different perspectives on how I used to view him which was as a person who was adored by everyone. The information was very different in that the ideas were very different.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Some strengths that I used in the writing process was the fact that I knew a lot about LeBron and who he was, I used the poems because they were part of my strengths, and I also used the strength of being able to write in first person. Writing in first person is one of my strongest traits as a writier. I juts love to become another person. Some new strengths that I used was the lists.** **The lists really seemed like an easy but powerful genre to use and it worked out to be one of my strongest genres.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**I decided to make my pieces in chronological order. This made the most sense to me because his decisions really happened in Chronological order so it was ideal to put them in that order. It started with the high school decision to stay for senior year all the way up to moving to Miami. I also tried to add a picture of LeBron in chronological order. This was my repented which was hard for me to find but I think this was a good way to organize my project.** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,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? ||
 * <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;">**items you** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**worked on** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**and/or** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**completed** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**each day.** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: times-roman,serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">* <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive;">**What road did you choose?** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Thoughts** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Reflections** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Concerns** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Inspirations** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**Contemplations** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/7/12** || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Learned about project.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/8/12** || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Chose research project.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/10/12** || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Finished first FQI sheet.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/16/12** || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Finished third FQI sheet and ahead of the project so far.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/18/12** || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif;">Finished fourth FQI sheet.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/22/12** || •Finished Narrative today.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || •got second genre
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || •Found the player card genre
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || •Using stat sheet for last genre
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || •Found repented!
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** ||  || **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">For this last reflection, you should choose  four 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 5/28** _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 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** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**Date 29 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: #538ccb; display: block; font-family: timesnewromanpsmt,serif; font-size: 22px; 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.