Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

**items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || * **What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || 1. Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? I chose my topic because I have very strong feelings against child abuse. Just hearing about child abuse really gets to me, and makes me really upset. I still can't believe that there are people out there in the world who do this to children. I know that this is awful, and many people are unaware of how common child abuse is. I want people to be more aware of the tragic things that happen in many people's every day lives. Yes, I am still very happy with my choice. In doing this project I feel that I have made all of the readers more aware of child abuse. The more people made aware, the easier it will be to stop because most likely these people will be completely against child abuse, just like myself.
 * **Date** || **List the**
 * **5/7/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I watched the Jeff Bezos video, and chose my top 5 topics to choose from. || <span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 0px; text-decoration: none;">aJ <span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">The Jeff Bezos video inspired me because he proved to me, that really anything can be possible, and that you must always follow your passion, even if it sounds crazy, you will never know until you try. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/8/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I emailed Mrs. Dabrush my final topic. || <span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I I I <span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">For my final topic (road) I chose Child Abuse. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/10/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I started my first FQI sheet. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I chose a website that informs people about child abuse. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/16/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I worked on creating my character. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I think that the worksheet really helped me get a base of my character, and if really got my thoughts going. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/18/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I practiced different dialogue, for my narrative. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">This helped show me how to write a good, scene, and to make sure that it was not boring, because it offered me examples of different scenes. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/22/12** || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">I worked on my narrative. || I have been inspired by many different child abuse stories that I have heard. These stories have helped me come up with a great child abuse plot/story. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || I started to plan what I was going to be doing for the next portion of the project. || Planning it out will help me get a good grasp on the rest of the project, and I will know how to handle it. Along with planning everything out I continued to work on the next portion of my projects which will help me in the long run. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || I worked on my poem and in class we had mini lessons for both poems and lists || The mini lessons helped me so that I now know how to write lists and poems. The mini lessons also helped me get a base on which to start the next genres. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || I finished up my poem and planned out my other genres. || I think that I am in good shape on the project and planning everything out really helps. I started working on my timeline which is my next genre. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || Today I continued working on my genres, and continued on setting up my wiki. I also worked on my table of contents. || Getting ahead on setting up the rest of my wiki will help me on if I get stuck on what to do next. In doing that I have my whole project laid out for me. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** || I finished the Dear Reader Introduction, and finalized my wiki. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**I enjoyed doing this project, because I felt very independent on how I went along doing the project.**

2. What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? For my research I intended on having at least one book, one website, and one video. Also for the facts on child abuse I wanted to find out how many deaths child abuse causes, the different kinds of child abuse, and some symptoms that people can look for in children that are being abused. I did meet all of my goals, and even more! I am satisfied with all of my research and think I did well on the project overall.

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? The facts about my topic that interested me the most were the number of deaths per day due to child abuse, and how many children are abused. I think that this kind of project did give me a better understanding of my topic, compared to a traditional kind of research paper. I feel that way because in this I feel like I can connect with the theme, because I are not only writing about it, I are writing as if the abuse was happening to me. In writing a narrative, and doing other genres such as journal entries, I feel that I can connect with how the abused children feel, and for this reason it gives me a better understanding of my topic.

4. How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? I feel that I collected a good amount of information. I ended up using five sources, but the quality of each source was very good. The sources I had were different, meaning some were of true child abuse stories, while others were stating fact about the different kinds of child abuse. I found finding the actual information rather easy. Child abuse is such a broad topic, and there are many excellent sources out there that I was able to use.

5. 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? I learned that working with my peers on revising and editing really helps me because with others reading it, they can give me more ideas on how to improve my writing, and then I can know what interests people, and what does not. Yes, my peers did give helpful advice. I thought that my peers who read my narrative helped the most because they told me what to fix, and they would tell me what really grabbed them, so I would make the story more intriguing. From reading their pieces I learned how to make the story even better because I realized what really grabbed me, so I could somehow fit things like that into my piece.

This project was a great experience! ||

<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= 9 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;">_10 points Student is up to date with her/his journal entries. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;"> 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. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif; text-decoration: none;"> 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 6/4__** _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** _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.