Work Times

This week has been a pretty busy one. The poetry test has really been getting me nervous. So, out of anxiety I studied for it. I also picked up a new book to read; since I recently finished Perks of Being A Wallflower. My new book is called, The Glass Castle, and it's very good so far. In fact, a friend recommended it to me when we were looking in the library. Also, I have been dabbling with my paper quite a bit. Not so much that it made a big difference but, a substantial amount.

2/19 Reading The Glass Castle- 1 hour
2/21 Working on paper- 20 minutes
2/23 Preparing for poetry test- 1 hour

Your Song

'Your Song'
by: Elton John

I analyzed the song, Your Song, by Elton John. A classic, performed by the wonderful Elton John, is one of my all time favorite songs. Elton John in a number of his songs, portrays specific poetic and theme based lyrics to set a mood for the situation of the song.

There are multiple poetic techniques throughout the song. Sibilance appears specifically when the lyrics say, "Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen". That verse can also serve as euphony, the verse is actually expresses smooth tone for the song. Consonance is also demonstrated in most of the song. For example often times sounds like o or id throughout the lyrics. The tone of, Your Song, seems to be an amorous attitude. There are a couple of dictions throughout the lyrics, for example, "

Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross.

But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song". The speaker is speaking about possibly their companion. The purpose of the song is to express a feeling mainly towards love and possibly respect. My overall interpretation of this song is for it to serve as an entertainment but also an expression.


Lyrics:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eltonjohn/yoursong.html



Reading Times-
Wednesday 2/12- 1 hour reading Perks of Being A Wallflower
Thursday 2/13- 1 hour reading Perks of Being A Wallflower
Friday 2/14- 1 hour reading Perks of Being A Wallflower
Sunday 2/16- Finished Perks of Being A Wallflower

Reading/Working times

Monday 2/3- 40 minutes finalizing draft
Thursday 2/6- 1 hour reading ATD (finished)
Friday 2/7- 1 hour reading Perks of Being a Wallflower
Friday 2/7- 1 hour working on ATD

Research Paper

I worked on my research paper for about 4 days and well.. In those four days I probably spent like a billion hours a day writing it. I'm pretty sure my paper is about 6 pages long without the citations. So basically that paper took over my little 'snow break' we had. I feel pretty confident in it overall but of course it's normal to have uncertainty about it. I get really nervous about how I put things into my essay. For example quoting and things like that. Even though I most likely didn't, I feel as if somehow somewhere I'd be using some words of someone else that I never even saw. Plagiarism scares me thats all.

I think the easy part in a way was organizing it. I thought that was going to be hard but, it came out for the best. The hardest part was giving interesting and accurate information about what my topic was all about. I didn't want each thing I said to sound similar to the last so it was fairly difficult to switch it up.

I feel like when I get my feedback it'll be about repeating info. The one thing I'm not confident about. Like I'm saying the same thing over again. Which of course I don't mean to but my mind tends to dose off so I just repeat the process of what I've already written. But, I must say overall I think my paper is getting there. I like it a lot, definitely my best one yet.


Work Times:
Reading- 30 minutes
Writing my draft- 15 hours for probably like the whole week... yup a lot 

sneauxin

If I had describe my break due to the 'snow' it would be homework, Netflix, and just a whole bunch of lounging. Although it didn't seem like a lot of work, it was for me. Virtual school was like double schoolwork. Somehow I actually managed to complete all the work. Throughout the three days I kind of mixed in procrastination of Netflix and music with the schoolwork. It was pretty chill and enjoyable overall.
Since the roads were really icy my mom got to stay home so that was a bunch of fun. We just chilled the entire time. It was nice just staying home for a couple of days. It's going to be so hard to get through an entire week of school. Although the 'break' is over, it was enjoyable and I'm grateful to have it.