Reading and Working Details

Reading and Working Dates and Times:

Mon. Feb. 17th: read Perfect for 20 minutes
Tues. Feb. 18th: fixed MLA format on paper for 10 minutes
Wed. Feb. 19th: read Perfect for 45 minutes
Thurs. Feb. 20th: nothing
Fri. Feb. 21st: looked over things i need to fix for my research paper and read Perfect for about 20 minutes and studied for poetry test
Sat. Feb. 22nd: started to fix my paper and studied for poetry test for 45 minutes
Sun. Feb. 23rd: finalizing my paper and studied more 30 minutes

Poem and Reading Times

Poem: RE: This Is Just To Say

Why have you
Eaten icey
Plums in my
White icebox,

Now we
Won't have breakfast
The plums
Were the purest

I forgive
You for eating
Them, but
You are beating,

My emotions
To a pulp
Can't handle
The awful Insult.

Explanation: The rhyme skeam is A,B,C, B, D, E, F, E, G, H, I, H, J, K, L, K.
also there is simbliance, and I think there is a little personification because you can't technically up someone's feelings.

Reading and Work Times:

Mon. 10th,- Read Perfect for 20 minutes
Tues. 11th,- Worked on paper 20 minutes
Wed. 12th,- Read perfect 30 minutes
Thrus. 13th,-  studied vocab 10 minutes
Fri. 14th,- read Perfect for 30 minutes
Sat. 15th,- nothing
Sun. 16th,- prepared my poem so about 35 minutes.

"Love" by Mos Def

The singer/songwriter Mos Def uses different ways to show different things in “Love.” I first saw the use of enjambents, end stop lines, and rhyme. He also used an apostrophes to express love e uses these to make the feel for the song. The other thing I noticed was that he used personification to giving love different human characteristics. An oxymoron stood out to me as an important part of "Love". The last thing I noticed were that many anaphoras are in the song as well.

       The three techniques effects the rhythm or feel in the song. Most songs have a good beat to them making them so popular. He creates a very nice beat with those techniques. Most songwriters don't do this but, he personifies love and confronts love like it is a person, although it is only an emotion. Personally, I think Def does this to show how much the emotional feel of love can really do to one person. The last technique that I saw that effected the song was an oxymoron. This oxymoron is used to explain if he should go out or stay home, so it's intriguing, but on the other hand difficult. 

Reading and Working Times

Monday, 2/3- 20 minutes reading ATD
Tuesday, 2/4- 40 minutes posting
Wednesday, 2/5- 20 minutes reading Perfect
Thursday, 2/6- 40 minutes finishing posts
Friday, 2/7- 20 minutes reading Perfect

Research Paper Draft

I think my confident part of my paper is the content of the main experiments like what Dr. Mengele did to the twins and the dwarf family. I had some really informational websites. I feel like is was easy in the way of finding websites and making annotations and notecards on them, but then I think it's hard because when I was writing my paper it was difficult trying to find websites that went together and would make sense if i put some information from one website with another.

I have a question. If I used a website, but I didn't make an annotation on it should I make an annotation on it so that I can put it in my works cited? I'm scared that I plagiarized something, but I don't think I did. I think that's the only thing I was really worried about, other than just not thinking it was long enough. I think I would like help changing my wording and the work cited like, if I should make an annotation or not. I think you should focus on the context of the writing and if the quotations I used are properly placed.

Work times:

Writing my paper, I used some new websites that were more informational. I spent about three hours writing the paper and doing more research.
About two hours reading our class book and finished it.

Sneaux Week Free: Relearning my Torah Portion

Being Jewish and a teenager comes with it's ups and downs. When I was 12 years old, it was time to start leaning my Torah portion for my Bat Mitzvah. Although that doesn't seem like much, it's a completely different language, a whole new alphabet to learn. Luckily, I had been going to Hebrew school every Sunday and Wednesday's when I was coming up to my bat mitzvah. Once I picked out my date and read over my portion in english, I really like it. It talked a lot about the Eternal Lamp, what priests wore, and how the temples were built back in the day. It really interested me, but the worst was having to sing it in front of all my family, friends, and the whole congregation. I was able to learn it in a six week period with a tutor everyday after school. Three years later, I'm again having to learn it again.

This coming up Saturday, I will be reading the first three verses in the portion T'tzaveh or Exodus. I'm really excited about it, yet really nervous because I don't to mess up. It's such a huge responsibility and honor to even be able to read out of the Torah. Having to relearn it will be very difficult yet bringing back memories from when I had an awesome and hilarious tutor to teach me three years ago, and I'm hoping he will be there.