Reading/Working Times

AP World History book
2/19-45 min, 2/23-45 min

Editing NHD Paper
2/20-30 min

Wizard Heir
2/22-30 min

Preparing for Poetry Test
2/21-30 min, 2/23-1 hour

Reading times

Reading 

The Warrior Hier 

2/11-30 min 2/12-1hour 30 min 2/13-15 min 

AP World Text 

2/15-30 min

Total= 2 hours 45 minutes

Love, Life, and Death

Love, Life, and Death

I can be light,

but also night.

I can be life

but also death.

I can be a murderer

but also a lifesaver.

I can be a gatherer of my people

but also disperse them.

I am love.

I can be the light in the world

but bring night in tow.

I can be the reason people live

and die.

I can be a murderer of hearts

and save them.

I can be a gatherer people together in my name

and they disperse in a heartbeat

I can't be just one, can I?

Structure Used: Enjambment, End-stopped line, Similar line structure (4,1,4,1)

Techniques Used: Diction (hearts, life, death), Anaphora (I can. I can't), End-Rhyme, Personification

 

Stairway to Heaven Lyrical Analysis

Stairway to Heaven is song written and preformed by Led Zeppelin and appeared in the album Led Zeppelin IV.  It begins slow and melodic. There is no drums or heavy electric guitar as is characteristic of Led Zeppelin's music. This atmosphere deepens the meaning of the song which can be interpreted to represents the path to heaven in a series of indirect descriptions. The beginning expresses some aspects of euphony as well as in the chorus. This is expressed in words like "gold", "know", "wonder" and even the sounds added in the chorus such as "ooh". The diction of the song is light and, well, heavenly in many words like glitter and gold. Phrases form pictures of happiness and peace up until the end when the hard rock Led Zeppelin appears in all its glory.

In this song, only 2 basic lines are repeated once or twice in the nearly 8 minute long song. Led Zeppelin's song is more like a poem than anything. Alliteration and other literary devices are found throughout the piece in the choruses and verses. The words of the song as well as the pauses form together to create a poem with line-breaks, stanzas, and end-stopped lines like a written poem would. Stairway to Heaven is artfully crafted to give the listener a sense of what their imagining with not only with what's said but what's done. The singers and songwriters of this style and era had much of the same aspects as found in the Doors and Pink Floyd.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ledzeppelin/stairwaytoheaven.html 
   

Reading/Working TImes

Monday, 2/3 - 10 min Warrior Heir in class + 40 min 2 posts on ATD
Tuesday, 2/4 - 30 min Warrior Heir + 30 min Social Studies text
Thursday, 2/5 - 10 min Warrior Heir + 40 min 2 posts on ATD + 15 min other peoples' blogs
Friday,  2/6 - 10 min Warrior Heir

Total= 3 hour 5 min

Reading + Working times

Reading 

The Warrior Heir 

1/30- 30 min  2/1- 15 min

Social studies text 

1/29-30 min 1/30-20 min

Science text 

1/30- 1hour  

Working times

Draft

Sneaux days- 4 hours 

2/2- 1 hour 30 min

Total= 8 hours and 5 min

Research Paper Draft

My NHD draft is work in progress and definitely has potential. I'm confident that it addresses the necessary topics needed to analyze my topic and that I have the right sources but I'm not sure that they are coming together smoothly. I feel like what I have is an outline with introducing and concluding sentences at the end of each topic/paragraph. I definitely think I need to work on the finer things in my paper. The organization was easy because of the outline but let's face it, words are hard.

There two main things I need help on and that's the quotations and the overall flow of the paper. After reading it, the paper felt a little choppy. I think those aspects need a bit more attention after further review. I think the rest of the paper works well besides those two points and I will continue to refine it for the final draft.  

Snow day: Importance of a Firm Handshake

Division Head 

William had always been a confident, successful student. He was class president and the head of the debate team. He always spoke eloquently and his handshake was exceptional. 


Professor

A student came in today. He walked right up to my desk and waited patiently for me to finish the task at hand. When I looked up again, he introduced self as John. I offered my hand and he took it and I was shocked at the firmness of the handshake. I never forgot his name because of that handshake. I noticed the same assertive, confident  in his papers and conversations. I was impressed.


Friend/Acquaintance

Though William and I had very different view we were still good friends. He was always in the opposing party in an argument and I never did best him. He was intimidating from the start. He had a death grip.


Citizen 

The man I met today was truly inspirational. He spoke to us all with words of wisdom and a hope for the future. I was unsure at first but when he shook my hand, I was sure he was the one I was going to vote for.

John F. Kennedy such a firm handshake, it propelled him the seat of the President of the United States

(P.S. The inspiration for this piece came from a Spotify commercial because I had absolutely no idea what I was going to write about.)

(P.S.S The story is absolutely, 100% fictitious)