Reading

Mon - Split 1 hour
Tues - split 30 min
Wed -  The fault in our stars 1 hour
Thurs - split 20 min
Sat - research draft revision 40 min
Sun - research draft revision 1 hour

Walking Disaster

This song is about a lot of things, but as a whole, its about growing up and how terrible it is. During the first verse the writer uses end rhyme to emphasize a point hes making, which is how repetitive his life and relationship with his parents is. Its unchanging and its not necessarily a good thing. 
I'm sure everything's the same:
Mom and Dad both in denial, 
an only child to take the blame.
The writer uses symbolism to describe himself, saying "this city's buried in defeat", showing himself or his home as this huge part in his life that will forever be lost in the negative memories and failed attempts to change anything. This rhyming and symbolism makes me see this song as angry, despite the songs rather laid back (I say that loosely) sound. He uses blank verse to show an irregularity in the song, among the repetition he throws in a verse that symbolizes a change in his life that he has been trying to make. 

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sum41/walkingdisaster.html

Poetry

What is it?

The guitar strings I pluck to 

sing with my soul.

Poetry is,

the bitter taste of loss 

left when everyone's asleep.

The pain in my feet from walking barefoot

in the street. 

Poetry is everything you and I 

as a whole cannot say.

The unspoken words we left for other years

with belief that they 

would be said another day.

Poetry is freedom

at first glance its crazy,

unorganized and only skin deep.

But poetry is life,

and my life is poetry I'm still writing.

Assonance

The pain in my feet from walking barefoot

in the street. 

End Rhyme

The unspoken words we left for other years

with belief that they 

would be said another day.

Metaphor

But poetry is life,

and my life is poetry I'm still writing.

Times

Monday - 1 hour the fault in our stars
Wednesday - 1 hour dracula

Research draft

I feel confident about this draft, mostly because I put a lot of work into it and I think its well structured. I'm a bit concerned about how my paper is written overall, I'm not the best at following guidelines, so I'm kind of afraid I wrote it completely wrong and I'm going to get a bad grade (being honest). The easiest part was coming up with my argument, I felt very strongly about my topic so it wasn't hard to get the initial work done. The hardest part was researching, even though our class has been doing projects like this every year, I think we can all agree that the details are still fuzzy. I mean every year it gets more and more complicated and we haven't had time to adjust to even the smallest details, let alone tackle huge portions each week.

I feel like changing my information, my sources aren't present in each paragraph so I would like to change that and make my researched information more available. I would like help changing that, as I said earlier I'm not very skilled at following English guidelines, because there are always a lot of grey areas. I would like you to focus on my order of paragraphs and strength of my argument, or how it was written.

Total time:

The fault in our stars : 1 hour

Paper : 4 hours writing and editing