Process+Journal

**Process Journal**

• Viewed the Jeff Bezos Video || • Five research topics I am considering to use for the MGRP are Lionel Messi, the Barclays Premier League, FC Barcelona, Soccer, and Micheal Jordan. • I am not sure which topic I am going to chose because everything is so interesting to me and each person or thing has affected the world today. • After watching the Jeff Bezos video, I realized that the choices he made affected his life. If he didn't make the right choice, his life might not be the same it is today. || • Chose my final research topic || • I wasn't sure whether to research Lionel Messi or soccer, but after filling out the form, I realized that I am going to research soccer. • I chose soccer because people around the world play soccer including me. People who don't play soccer love the players, clubs, and country teams. • I don't really know many choices people made that affected the sport of soccer to make it the way it is today, but that is the whole point of the project. || • Finished my first two FQI Sheets || • For my first two FQI sheets, I decided to use a book and an encyclopedia for my resources. • I chose the topic of the laws of soccer for the website and the topic of early soccer for the encyclopedia. • Thinking of which topic to choose was kind of hard because there are so many topics in soccer to choose from. || •Finished my last 3 FQI Sheets • Watched Steve Jobs Video || • For my last three FQI sheets, I decided to use a two websites and a magazine article for my resources. •<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I chose the topic of the laws of soccer for one of my websites, soccer equipment for the other website, and the dream team of 2010 for the magazine article. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Just like with the first two FQI sheets, choosing a topic was hard, but I had more ideas of topics after researching for a while. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The Steve Jobs Video reminded me of the Jeff Bezos video because he talked about choices me made to create Apple and to keep it up and running. || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Looked at Examples of Repeated Elements • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Chose a Repeated Element || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">After learning about dialogue, I realized that it can be used to introduce characters and move along the story. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Two MGRP's that examples of a repeated element were the Coffee and Speak MGRP. In the Coffee MGRP, there was a repeated verbal element and in the Speak MGRP, there was a repeated visual element. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">After looking at different types of repeated elements, I decided I was going to use a repeated visual element because I am more of a visual learner. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I don't have a repeated visual element yet, but I know it will have something to do with my topic of soccer. || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Began Writing Pages 1 and 2 for the Narrative || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">For my narrative writing, I decided to use my character I created for my character quiz. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">One problem I face was that my brainstorm was the complete opposite of my story. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I realized to change my story after writing for a while and that I could just write a story on two events that happened close to each other instead of writing about an entire season. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">This made my writing better I think because it allows me to use more detail to make my writing longer. || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Picked a Poster and Timeline for Genres || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">After looking at examples of different MGRP's, I got a feeling for different genres that I am going to put into mine. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">There are so many different genres to chose from it will take me a while to pick some out. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I know that I will use my Narrative and I also decided that I will use a poster and a timeline. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I am not sure what I am going to put into my poster or timeline, but I know it will have something to do with my topic of of soccer. || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Started a Poem and a List <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">• Found all 4 genres for my Wiki || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">In class today, I had a mini-lesson on lists and decided that I will use a list as one of my four genres because I already know what the list will be about. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">We also made a six-room poem in class today, which gave me the idea of creating a poem. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I'm not going to use the poem I made in class because I didn't like it, so I decided that I will make my own poem. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Know I have all four of my genres picked out for my Wiki. || <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">• Completed Poem • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Started Timeline || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The list I created had three different categories in my list labeled “For the MLS”, “For International Clubs”, and “For National Team” • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The list was for Professional Achievements as a soccer player. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The poem I created is about my soccer cleats. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">For my timeline, I figured out it will be about early soccer up to modern soccer. || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Completed Timeline • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Created Timeline • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Created Bibliography || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The poster I created is for the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The timeline I created is about the events of soccer that created the sport we know today. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Now that I have finished all four of my genres, I created a table of contents. • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I also created a bibliography page with all of my resources where I found my information. || <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:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">1. Why did you choose your topic? Are you still happy with your choice? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I decided to choose my topic of soccer because it is a major part of my life and I wanted to know more about it than I already did. Each week I play soccer for the town of Natick and for a club team called Mass Premier Soccer. I also like to watch soccer over the weekends when it is usually on and occasionally referee younger age groups. I have learned a lot about soccer while playing, but I wanted to know more. There is so much more to soccer than I have ever learned while playing. After completing my MGRP, I am still happy with my choice because I learned more about soccer than I ever thought I would. While playing, I only learned the rules because that is all I needed to know to play. Now I know about the history behind soccer and how it came to be the sport we know today. Now that I think about it, no other topic would have been more perfect for me to research about. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">2. What goals did you have for your research? Did you meet those? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">A few goals that I had for my research were to research different parts of soccer that had nothing to do with each other. This was so I could get a better understanding of soccer as a whole and not just a little part of soccer. Another goal I had for my research was to not research things I already knew about soccer. I wasn't able to meet both of my goals, but I did manage to meet my first goal. This was because soccer has so many different parts to it that I could easily choose topics that didn't relate to each other. I wasn't able to complete my second goal because after doing a little research, I decided that it will just be easier to research things that I already knew. I would not only be easier for me, but I will also be able to increase my knowledge of things that I already know. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">4. How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">I collected a lot of information on my topic of soccer and more than I probably needed. For my FQI Sheets, I had to find information about five smaller topics that had to do with soccer. Then while working on genres for my MGRP, I came across even more information about soccer. Since soccer is so widely known around the world, there is so much information about it on the internet and in books. This made my life a lot easier because the information was easier to find. All I needed to do to find information was to search it on the internet or go to the library and find a book about it. It saved me a good amount of time that I used to work on my project. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">6. What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Some strengths I used as a writer was the Narrative Writing. I like writing realistic fiction stories, which made it easier for me to write. As I write stories like that, the words pop into my head as I write and I just keeps on going and eventually I have a story. I also get the chance to visualize my story as I am writing it like it is a movie playing in my head. This also helps me to write the story because if the image is a little blurry, I add detail to my writing until it becomes clear. Another strength as a writer that I used was with the poster. Like I said before, I write really good if I can see what is going on and with the poster there are pictures that I am able to write about. While working on this project, I realized that I am really good at writing poetry. I really don't like to read poetry or write it, but after I wrote the poem “My Magnificent Soccer Cleats” I thought that it sounded really good. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">When deciding on what genres to use in my paper, I used genres that when I looked at them, I immediately knew what I was going to put in them. For example, when I saw that I could do a poster, the first thing in my mind was the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The hardest piece to write was probably the timeline because there are so many soccer events that have already happened. While creating the timeline, I had to only use events that showed how soccer has evolved to the sport it is today. It also was the genre that took me the longest for the same reason that I had to choose from many different events. The most interesting genre that I made was the professional achievements list because it used achievements from the game FIFA 12. My virtual pro has achievements he needs to unlock to get better and I used some of his achievements in my list. It was interesting because I never thought that a video game would relate to a school project. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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="color: #000000; font-family: Comic Sans MS,serif;">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="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">After working with my peers on revising and editing, I learned that even if the squiggly red line underneath the word doesn't show up, it still might not be the right word. While I was editing my work, I made sure that all of the words were spelled correctly before I showed it to my peer. When they were looking at it, they showed me that I should put the word “where” instead of “were” which is what I had because the writing didn't make any sense. After reading what they said, they were correct and writing was saved for not putting the “h” in “where”. They gave me some more helpful device by saying that I should be creative when naming my genres instead of saying what they are. That was probably the most helpful advice because those were the only advices I got from them. When looking at my peer's work, I saw what they meant when they said be creative with the genre titles. Their titles also gave me some ideas for my own titles. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**Date** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**List the** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**items you** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**worked on** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**and/or** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**completed** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**each day.** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: center;">**What road did you choose?** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**Thoughts** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**Reflections** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**Concerns** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**Inspirations** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**Contemplations** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/7/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Completed Research Topic Brainstorm
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/8/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Completed Thinking About A Topic
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/10/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Found my first two resources for my FQI sheets
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/16/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Found my last 3 resources for my FQI sheets
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/18/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Learned about Dialogue for our Narrative
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/22/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Brainstormed ideas for Writing the Narrative
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/28/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Looked for Genres to add to my Wiki
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**5/30/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Learned about Lists
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**6/1/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Completed List
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comic sans ms,serif; text-align: right;">**6/5/12** || • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Started and Completed Poster
 * <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; font-size: 12px;">Adapted from ©2006 by Melinda Putz from //A Teacher’s Guide to the Multi-genre 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: 5/28** <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.

<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 journal entries at the time of scoring.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Score B Date: 6/4** <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.

<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.

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Score C** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> **___30 points__** __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 20px;">**Date6/8 30 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.__ Plus

_10 points: Student answered more than four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses.

___8-9 points: Student answered four of the final reflection questions with thoughtful and thorough responses.__

___5-6 points: Students answered some of the final reflection questions. The responses answered the questions with little elaboration or insight.__

___ 4 points: Student did not answer any of the reflection questions.