Process+Journal

Read the poem Watched the Jeff Bezos video Picked 5 topics for the research project || Thoughts: One thought that I have is that this project will be exciting and interesting. Also, that a lot of hard work and determination will have to go into this project. Reflections:My reflections for today is that I need to work on time management to get this project finished and for this project to be the best that it can be. Concerns: One of my concerns is that I am confused on what the project is and how the ending project will look like. In addition to, I understand the steps along the way for this unit but I do not understand the ending product. Inspirations and contemplations: My inspiration for today is that I either want to do the Holocaust or the Salem Witch trials as my project. || •Talked about Jeff Bezos Speech •Talked about passion || Thoughts: One thought that I have is that should try and figure out what I’m passionate about so I can email Ms.Dabrush my final decision. Also, that there are a lot of due dates for this project. Reflections:My reflection for today is that passion determines where people go in life. For example, if Jeff Bezos did not have the passion to make amazon, there would not have been amazon.com that so many people use. Concerns:One of my concerns is for the FQI sheet do I have to find different resources like the web, a book, a newspaper article or can I just use 5 different books as research. Inspiration and contemplations: My inspiration for today is that I want to do the Holocaust as my research topic. I want to do the Holocaust because ever since I was 8 I always wondered how Hitler could persecute Jewish people || •Completed an FQI sheet || Thoughts: My thought for today is that this project is getting easier everyday. Also, I am finding that learning about the Holocaust and filling out the FQI sheets is actually really fun and interesting. Reflections: My reflection for today is that learning about the Holocaust is exciting and fun but is also really sad. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Concerns:My concern is that I do not know what ideas I am going to use for the multi-genre portion of the project. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Inspirations and Contemplations: My inspiration is that I am going to finish three of the FQI sheets this weekend so I am ahead of schedule || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">*Character interview <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">*Find two more sources || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Thoughts: One of my thoughts is about the character assessment that I have tomorrow. I hope I do well on it because I really like the character that I created. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Reflections: My reflection for today is that I am right on track for my FQI sheets, I have 3 of them done. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Concerns:I am concerned about the Narrative that will be happening next week. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Inspirations:My inspiration is that I have my character, his name is Klaus. He is growing up in a German household during the time of the Holocaust. He lives with his father who is a commander of the Nazi Party. Klaus does not agree with his father on persecution Jewish people. || •<span style="font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 14px;">Review dialogue and setting || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Thoughts:My thoughts are that I am in pretty good shape. I have only two more FQI sheets and then I am done. I am also really excited about the Narrative that I will have next week. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Reflections:My reflection is that the Holocaust is a really, really hard subject to do. While I was working on my fourth FQI sheet I stared to cry for how sad the ending was. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Concerns: I am worried that I will not have enough time to finish the Narrative that I have next week. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Inspiration and contemplations: My inspiration for this week is that I will want to finish my fourth FQI sheet by tonight. || Reflections:Last Friday I handed in my Narrative and I think I did well on it but I am not sure. Also, I am preparing for starting my other genres. Concerns:I am concerned about not finishing my multi-genre research project in time. Also, I am worried that I will not be able to finish the poem analysis in time. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; text-decoration: none;">Inspiration and contemplations: My inspiration is that hopefully I will do well on the poem anylisis that I have tomorrow. || •Worked on dear reader •Worked on adding color || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Today I worked on my genres and added color to my wiki. I made my wiki look very nice. I also finished my last genre. My last genre is about the end of the Holocaust where everyone gets free. Also I did my dear reader. I just need to think of my title and do my genre || •Worked on dear reader •Worked on adding color || <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**For this last reflection, you should choose**  <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; font-size: 20px; text-decoration: none;">**four** <span style="font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;"> **of the nine questions listed here:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">Why did you choose your topic? I chose my topic because when I went to France in 1st grade, I went to a village where the Holocaust came through. At the time I did not know much about the topic, however in 7th grade when we learned about this topic as a class. I was so interested because I wanted to know how the Nazis and Hitler could believe what they believed. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">Are you still happy with your choice? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">I am definitely positively happy with my choice. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">What facts about your topic interested you most? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">The facts that interested me the most was about the concentration camps and death camps. I just wanted to understand how the Nazis felt when they set up those camps. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">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?Yes this project did help me get a better understanding. It helped me because when I did the research I was interested in the research. Also this project gave you a chance to be creative and try new things. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">How much information did you collect? How easy or hard was it to find information? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">I collected a lot of information. I probably had more then 10 sources that I could use. It was pretty easy to find information because the Holocaust is a huge event in the world's history. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">**What strengths did you use as a writer in this project? What new strengths did you discover?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: ComicSansMS,cursive; text-decoration: none;">The strengths that I used as a writer in this project was the way that I found research for the FQI sheets. A new strength that I discovered is my ability to make up stories and genres. 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. I decided the organization of the piece by doing it in somewhat chronological order. I used transition by doing the repentend. The repentend and creating the repetend flow very well. ||
 * <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; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">**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="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">Read the assignment
 * <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; font-size: 14px;">Picked research topic
 * <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; font-size: 14px;">Worked on FQI sheet
 * <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; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">*Character evaluation
 * <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; font-size: 14px;">Work on FQI sheets
 * <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; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">Worked on<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Narrative Writing || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">I worked on my Narrative writing and worked really hard on it. I created a character and the introduction of the story. I am excited to finish my story. My introduction came out really good. The introduction has some figurative language and is very descriptive. So, I hope it comes out really nice.One concern that I have is that I will not be able to finish the Narrative by Friday. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/28/12** || •<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prepared for Poem Analysis || Thoughts:My thoughts for today were about the poem analysis that I am having tomorrow. I am a little confused about what it is about. However I reviewed the poem and read it over to make sure I understand it.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**5/30/12** || •<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Worked on starting genres for the research project •<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Worked on repented  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Thoughts:My thoughts for today are that I want to get some of my genres done this week. In addition to, I want to get my repented and I think I have it. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Reflections: My reflections for today is that I hope my repented is a good choice or not. In addition to, I want to know if I have a good repented. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Concerns: My concern is that I won't have my Research Project done in time. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Inspirations and Contemplations: My inspirations is that I want my repented to be a blue butterfly with barbed wire around it. Where there is a locket around it. So, as the project goes on the locket will get free and it will be like freedom. ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/1/12** || •<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prepare for creating genres •<span style="font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finish Repetend  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The only thing that I did today was finish my repetend. My repetend is a butterfly that is trapped with a lock. Then as the genres move on the lock will un-ravel. Also, the genres that I will use is a poem, then a news report, a propaganda poster and a mystery. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/5/12** || •Worked on last genre
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: comicsansms,cursive; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">**6/7/12** || •Worked on last genre

Total Process Journal Points /50 points

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.

_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 journal entries at the time of scoring. 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.__

__Score C__ _30 points Date 6/9 29 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 ***Some needed a little more*** 9 points. _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.