Process+Journal


 * Process Journal**

**What road did you choose?** **Thoughts** **Reflections** **Concerns** **Inspirations** **Contemplations** || It wasn't that there specific facts that really interested me the most but there were parts that I explored that I really found interesting. For example when I was researching actors and actresses, although I had a small idea of which actors and actresses I wanted to look at I found that I was more intrigued by some. I think that I would have found a lot more stuff on specific actors and actresses if given the chance. For example I found a lot of stuff about James Dean to be interesting as well as other extremely talented actors and actresses such as; Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Kathryn Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Al Pacino , Paul Newman , Natalie Wood , Tom Hanks etc. (the list is really long) to be interesting. I realized that I was looking at a lot of acting stuff more than directing and writing that at first I thought I wanted a little insight on as well as acting. I also looked at movies that really shaped well people's history. I looked into the fact that movies really did impact life and history in a big way. I looked at movies that did and why. Actors and actresses that did and why. Also certain scenes and lines that stick with us and why.? This stuff is very interesting and fun to learn about and write about therefore it made my research a lot of fun. This project did let me branch out a lot more than a traditional research paper, and it was better. It enabled me to really do something I felt interested and passionate about. When someone is passionate about something, they feel a certain connection to it and therefore are able to do a much better , more heartfelt job. It really allowed me to do what I wanted. Getting information on movies and acting was not really hard in the slightest. Movies are such a big part of life as we know it so information is so readily available. I definitely feel that I gathered more information than needed because I enjoyed my topic so much. However that did enable me to do a better job. I did collect a lot of information but a lot of it was for my own personal choice. The hardest piece that I had to write was probably the Journal entry that I wrote pretending to be James Dean the day that he had died. I think this is mostly because I tried to add enough information to make it seem authentic but not too much to the point where it became untrue. I tried to hint the impact of the accident happening but I mostly tried to state known facts. I tried not to venture into his thoughts because, I don't have any idea of his thoughts at all. I knew that he liked racing cars and acting. I knew that he was lonely. I knew that he was smart and really knew how to act and about acting. He knew how to be an actor and what he wanted to accomplish as an actor and so on. I didn't know anything else than that. I knew that he was lonely because he hinted at it a lot, he hinted about how lonely being an actor is and how lonely he was. He also would say that acting was the only way he was able to express himself. He was troubled. I don't know much else. That made it hard to write a journal entry pretending to be him. It was also hard to put in the significance of the fact that he was going to die that day,tragically at a young age. This was because nobody had any idea this was going to happen. It was unsuspected. On another note the narrative was the easiest because creative writing is what I find to be the easiest and a lot of fun to do. The reason I find it easiest is because making up my own characters and own plot makes it so that I am the only one that knows what is going to happen at all. Making up characters I am the only one who shapes who they are and I choose the traits to show off and only me. There does not have to be complete and utter facts in a piece of creative writing. ||
 * **Date** || **List the** **items you** **worked on** **and/or** **completed** **each day.** || *
 * **5/7/12** || Today was the start of the project || Today we started the project and I started to think of topics to do. Also I watched Jeff Bezo’s commencement speech, which made me think about the decisions on the project that I was going to be making. ||
 * **5/8/12** || Today my topic was chosen || toToday I chose my final topic which is the history and different aspects of film/ movies and the Academy Awards. I chose this topic because I thought that It would be a broad topic easy to narrow down later if i want to focus on one specific thing as I research it more. I also thought that this would be really interesting. It was a hard choice to make between topics because I had a lot of great ones to choose from. ||
 * **5/10/12** || Today was working on the project || Today I worked on finding resources for F.Q.Is and so on. I worked on an FQI sheet because my goal is to get one done by monday and then another by wednesday. I have decided that upon looking at one of my websites which is the official academy awards site, a common theme is basically the magic of the cinema . I want to focus on that theme as well when working on my project . I want to go down the road more of the acting and the magic that the cinema and how it changes lives with the history and even today more than before . I want to focus on the acting aspect but maybe some of the writing a directing as well there are a lot of choices to make. ||
 * **5/16/12** || Worked on the Project || Today I worked on the FQI sheets and found a bunch of books to use for the project. I found a lot of books and decided to take the path to look more on some specific movies because that are what a lot of the movies are about. ||
 * **5/18/12** || Worked on FQIS || I continued working on the project today, but on the FQI sheets and the research. I read a lot of the books but I chose to only use two of them on the FQI sheets. ||
 * **5/22/12** || Worked on the Narrative || Yesterday, we started to work on the Narrative and today I continued working on it. I chose to work on the narrative based of a video that I saw because it is about a movie star and the movie showed movie stars in the history and there lives, a lot different than today. ||
 * **5/28/12** || Worked on project narrative finished || I finished the narrative and sent it in on Friday, although I wished that it could have been longer and I had more time I am please with the results of it, however today I thought about my poem analysis quiz tomorrow ||
 * **5/30/12** || Today I worked on another genre and poem || Today I worked on a poem for this and tried to think of another genre maybe a list....?????? sounds good :) ||
 * **6/1/12** || today I worked on news article and journal entry || Today I chose to use a news article as my genre as well as a journal entry that would work with it as well as one genre because it is about the same thing ||
 * **6/5/12** || The whole MGRP Is due on Friday || The entire MGRP project is due on Friday. I have a fair amount done already although I have not uploaded everything. I really decided what part of films that I wanted to focus on since it is such a huge topic in reality. ||
 * **6/7/12** ||  || I originally chose this topic because it was a topic that I found incredibly interesting. I also knew that it was somewhat broad simply because there are so many different aspects and areas to explore. I am still very happy with my choice. I found it to be more and more amazing the more I researched it.

Adapted from ©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multi-genre Research Project, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

**Process Journal Scoring Checklist**

Total Process Journal Points /50 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.
 * Score A Date 5/28 9 points**

_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. _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.
 * Score B ___ Date 6/5__**

___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. _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.