Process+Journal

**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** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Looked for sources || I found a great source with a video on bio.com and it has many great facts. I enjoyed listening to the video with pictures of Micheal Jordan's facial expressions, for example when his father died. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**05/08/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Found a source and completed FQI 1 || I completed the FQI sheet and as I said before, It was so fun learning about my sports ideal. The stats Jordan pulled off fascinated me. But what really “hit my heart” was when I found out his dad died and he gave up the game. It was great that he was able to come back and dominate. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Found a source and completed FQI 2 || The second site was not as good as the first but it still interested me and got the job done. I easily completed the second one and the formatting got much easier. Again I enjoyed learning all about Michael Jordan and his life now. Right now he manages the Bobcats. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Started FQI 3 || For FQI three, I mainly focused on his early life. As I did it, I wondered if Michael Jordan's life would have been a lot different if he hadn't move from Brooklyn to North Carolina. I asked questions in my head like, would he have gone to the NBA or college?I chose inspirations for my road. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">Completed all of my FQI sheets. || During FQI four I primarily focused on Jordan's amazing stats. He holds about thirteen records, plus he won six NBA Championships in six years! On FQI five I finished by focusing on his entire life. I chose reflections for my road. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || <span style="font-family: Times,serif;">I watched videos on youtube on Michael Jordan. || I came across many videos and I witnessed Michael dominate the game. Each play he would pull something off that I had never seen done. Jordan dunked from the free throw line! I had never seen anything like that before. It almost looked like he could fly. I also saw a game where Jordan scored 63 points in a playoff game as a rookie against the Celtics. The Celtics won, but Larry Bird said after the game, “I think I saw god, his name is Michael Jordan. That was an amazing quote coming from an amazing player, that is Larry Legend. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || I briefly viewed "The Road Not Taken." || As I was looking at the "Road Not Taken, I focused on how Robert Frost mentions different roads throughout the poem. I related this to the choices Michael Jordan chose to make throughout his career. If Michael Jordan took different roads, his live may have been different. I chose thoughts for my road. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || I wrote a list and drafted a poem. || I wrote a list using NBA.com of Michael Jordan's career stats. His stats just amazed me, such as his points per game. One year he had 37.0 points per game. Also I drafted a poem, describing a basketball. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || I look for genre types on the internet and completed my poem. || My poem was about Micheal Jordan in high school and his passion for a basketball. It included the how hard he worked to finally make the high school basketball team. Also it described the features of a basketball. I am still not sure about my last two genres after researching though. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || Today I worked on my fifth genre. || My fifth genre is, a top ten list. It contains the top ten moments of Michael Jordan's career. I am amazed by all of the moments of his career. For instance when Michael Jordan as a sophomore in the NBA, almost single handily beating the elite Boston Celtics team by scoring 63 points, an NBA playoff record. Also the Flu Game amazed me as well, when Jordan had the flu and still scored 38 points to lift the Bulls over the Jazz in game five, to take a commanding 3-2 series lead. ||
 * <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="font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif; font-size: 20px;">**four** <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;"> **of the nine questions listed here:**
 * 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 Michael Jordan for my topic because he is my favorite basketball player of all time, the best of all time, and I love basketball. I am still happy with my choice because I wanted to learn about his life and statistics and I did.
 * 2) **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? ** My goals were similar to why I chose this topic. My goals were to learn about his life, specifically childhood and why Jordan retired, and I wanted to learn about all of his amazing statistics. I did meet all of my goals and I was truly amazed with his stats and sad when I found out his dad was murdered, and that is why he retired for a season.
 * 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 two facts about Michael Jordan interested me the most were the fact that he did not make his high school basketball team in till he was a senior and that his father was murdered. This project did help me get a better understanding of my topic than I might have with a more traditional kind of research paper because it was easier to grasp a understanding of the facts when I got to write them down and ask questions. Also I felt more engaged because it was more fun, for example decorating my wiki and choosing colors that have a meaning.
 * 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 abundances of information ranging from Jordan;s childhood, moving from the dangerous Brooklyn to North Carolina, to Jordan college career when he hit the championship winning shot, finally to his hall of fame professional career. It was easy to find the information simply because Michael Jordan is perhaps the greatest icon of all of sports still today ten years after his final retirement. My only problem was choosing the best site possible.
 * 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. **
 * 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? **
 * 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 used the criteria on moodle to decide the genres to include in my project. The hardest piece to write was definitely the poem I wrote about Michael Jordan and his love for a basketball because I have not had much practice in school on writing poems and it was hard to find a rhyme scheme. The most fun genre was the narrative because I felt like I was reading a great book and I couldn't put it down, except I could not stop typing because I got so engaged and entertained.
 * 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. **
 * 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? ** ||

<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.

<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. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> 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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. 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__** _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** __**_30 points** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Date 6/8 29 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. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">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 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">. 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.