Reading Times 2/24/14

Monday- Read 50 minutes of The Fault in Our Stars (at home)

Tuesday- 20 minutes Annotated Poems (at home) 

Wednesday- 30 minutes reviewing poetry vocab (at home)

Thursday- 45 minutes reading The Fault in Our Stars (at home)

Friday- 55 minutes studying at home for Poetry Test
Sunday- 45 minutes working on Research Paper Draft

TOTAL TIME- 245 minutes 

Reading Times 2/17/14

Monday- 10 minutes (in class) The Fault In Our Stars

Tuesday- 50 minutes reading The Fault In Our Stars

Wednesday- 10 minutes (in class) The Fault In Our Stars

Thursday- 1 hour reading (at home) The Fault In Our Stars

Sunday- 15 minutes annotating Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World

Total Time-

2 hours 25 minutes 

White House

I feel so protected here

Nothing to fear 

Security all dressed and armed

Everyone alert and alarmed

Guest tags on and my best self 

Smiling and laughing at everything

My brothers thoughts of playing were soon shot down

Don't touch anything 

Bowling and dinners with president and first lady

I remember my moms words

Sit, Shhhh, Silence, settle down

Click Click

Hearing my grandmothers finger press down on the button

Miss it now, Coming Home

Wishing he was still there, as well as I

Techniques Used-

Click Click-onomatopoeia 

Sibilance included in the sit, shhhh, silence, and settle down

Consonance- coming home

Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World

Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What A Wonderful World 
By: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/israelkamakawiwoole/somewhereovertherainbowwhatawonderfulworld.html

I chose to select a song to annotate from when I was a kid, and one that everyone knows. I used to sing this song all the time, and I remember always belting the lyrics out at the top of my lungs while some family member played it on the guitar. This song has so much meaning through the lyrics, and I never had really connected it to poetry before. Now after learning about poetry I understand how they tie together.

The mood that is expressed in this poem in my opinion is being full of joy. This very happy song has poetic devices that I had not known until learning about the new lesson last week. For example, "Where trouble melts like lemon drops" is a metaphor and is personification. Those are two very familiar subjects that I have already known, but did not recognize them in the lyrics when I was singing.  Another would be "Blue birds fly" which is an example of alliteration. Alliteration is a new term that I recently learned, but I found it looking back at the song I caught sight of. The "B" in blue and birds contributes to the happy sound. Lastly I identified assonance in "Wonderful world", the "O" is a full song that also plays a factor into the happy and pleasant mood of the song. It is very remarkable to re-read over lyrics that I have known forever and notice these new poetic devices intertwined through the writing. 

Reading Times 2/10/14

Monday:20 minutes reading TATDOAPTI (10 in class)
Tuesday:10 minutes reading in class TATDOAPTI, one hour 20 minutes for Dicussion questions
Wednesday: 50 minutes on comment posts, 10 minutes reading TATDOAPTI 
Thursday: 10 minutes TATDOAPTI (Finished the book)
Friday:10 minutes Made sure my TATDOAPTI Project on Black board

Total Time: 3 hours and 10 minutes

Reading Times 2/2/14

1 hour reading TATDOAPTI (30 in class)
2 hour and 55 minutes on Rough Draft Research Paper

Total Time- 3 hours and 55 minutes

Rough Draft Response

I feel very confident in my rough draft. I think I am finally getting the hang of the research paper. I have to read the example in the Norton Field Guide a few times to help me out, but after reading that one and the student example online, I feel like I’m in a good spot. I have had trouble catching on to the concepts of how to write papers like a research one, but I think I’m finally getting it. I am mostly concerned with making sure everything is cited right.

           I know we have gone over how to cite thousands of times, but I really get upset when I get points counted off for format or errors that I should have known already. Nothing was ever really easy in my opinion, but if you did good job on your note cards then that was a huge help. I had many note cards that were a huge help for my paper. I really thought it would be easy to copy and paste more stuff than I actually could. It was also hard overall to adapt to writing a big research paper. I really like help from both my peers and Dr. D. I always can really use just another view on my paper. I have trouble seeing my mistakes, so I like to see other people’s views. I would like Dr. D to focus on my quotes and paraphrases in my paper. I would also like to make sure all my format stuff is correct, before submitting it for my final.

Snow Day Free Post

During the Snow Days this past week I was relaxing a lot. With a lot of virtual school and homework to do, I didn't have that much time to do nothing. The icy roads and the low temperatures made me want to say inside, even though snow was on the ground. As a kid I used to like to go and play in the snow, but that was without the loads of homework and before I knew about Netflix. Mostly before I loved watching shows on Netflix and lying in bed.

Since I was with my friends on some of the snow days, I did work and Netflix. A lot of my friends watch this show called Teen Wolf, which I sometimes watch but is one of the shows that I was forced to watch in between breaks of doing homework. The breaks were short of course, because of the amount of work given to us. I think I ended up working more at home in virtual school than how much I would have worked at school. It ended up being better, because I could sleep longer and work later, which is what I prefer.