100 Years

I analyzed the song 100 Years by Five for Fighting. The speaker of the song is someone who is looking back on their life. The speaker is remembering how he felt at the time and how what he was wishing for couldn't get better because he had 100 years to live. The occasion of the song is a life at its best at the age of the speaker. The purpose of the song is to show how fast life can pass you by. I also think the purpose is to show that however important you think something is at the time, most likely won't be that important in the long run. The subject is life of a boy who is 15 and is living life without a care. The tone is mellow and almost wise. Like the author is the speaker at an older age who is wise about his life now.

In the song there are multiple anaphoras of "for a moment". There also are assonances in "15 there's still time for you Time to buy and time to lose". I had trouble finding other techniques used. 

reading log

Monday- 75 mins on research paper + 15 mins on absolute true diary in class
Tuesday- 10 mins absolute true diary 
Wednesday- 10 mins absolute true diary 
sunday- 15 mins on discussion comments 
total: 125 mins 

Research Draft

In my draft I feel confident about my supporting facts. My facts are relevant and relate to my thesis overall. I think that the facts and examples I include will really get my argument across. 
Although I feel good about those things, I worry some about how I am not so sure how people could really argue against my thesis. Its an arguable thesis but at the same time its not. I don't know how people could argue that survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp weren't left with emotional scars that would impact them for the rest of their lives. 

My paper was a mix between easy and hard. Easy was deciding what subtopics to include in my paper. It also was easy to find the support to add to my subtopics. What was hard was making it all flow together between paragraphs. It also was kinda difficult to relate each subtopic back to my thesis in words. Also adding my citations was hard as well. 
From the writing center or from Dr. D, I would like help on changing how my paragraphs together; make it not so choppy.  

Sneaux week

During the days when we had no school because of the weather I honestly did nothing. I sat in my bed and watched Netflix and lots of movies. I also did the work we had to do but that didn't take too long, so I had a lot of time to watch all that tv. I finished one season of my show, but I only had like 5 episodes left of the Walking Dead anyway. I watched the movie Frozen and like 3 other old disney movies because those are my favorite. American Horror Story was another show I watched, but I only watched about 3 of those. 

Besides watching movies and shows, I took naps. I took one nap a day. I would wake up at like 10:30 then go to sleep for a nap around 3:00, and finally go to bed around 11:00. Those three days I just rotted in my bed eating goldfish. I only went outside for a total of probably 10 minutes total. 

On the third day I went to the EHS vs. CHS soccer game. That was really fun! It was the first time I had been out into the real world with people other than my family in 2 1/2 days. The little break was great and wish we could have more. 

Sneaux week reading and working log

30 mins. Fixing note cards and adding information to them

15- mins of looking over all the comments I received on my work

20- mins of drafting

45 mins of drafting

1 hour of drafting

1 hour 20 mins of Absolute True Diary 

Explaining my NHD project to my sister:

The theme was rights and responsibilities. I almost immediately knew I wanted to do something with the Holocaust and concentration camps. After 5th grade I have always thought the topic World War II  was really interesting. I narrowed the topic down to the lasting impressions the survivors had after their time in the camp Buchenwald. The survivors had lasting impressions because of what they experienced in the camp. They were put in Buchenwald because they believed something other than what the Nazis believed. After they were forced to be imprisoned, they were starved, forced to work, undergo medical experiments, and some just killed; Their human rights deprived. All of that just because they believed something different! In 1945 the prisoners took control of the camp by overpowering the officers. The prisoners that escaped had scarring memories. It affected them for the rest of their lives. What I learned specifically is that not only prisoners in Buchenwald were scarred. In 1945, just after the camp was taken over by the prisoners, the ally armies came in to liberate the camp. These soldiers in the ally armies were also greatly effected by the sights they saw. The events that happened in Buchenwald were so terrible that people that didn't even go through it, were effected for the rest of their life. 

My topic is the neglected rights of the prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. My thesis is: Not only did the horrific experiences of Buchenwald impact the prisoners during their time in the camp, but left lasting impressions on the survivors. The survivors were so negatively impacted because of the torture they experienced in Buchenwald. They were forced to be imprisoned because their beliefs differed from the Nazis. After they were imprisoned they were forced to work, have medical experiments tested on them, or killed. All these things completely deprived them from their human rights. When the camp was overthrown by a prisoner resistance group and ally armies, the survivors left with lasting impressions from all the horrors they faced inside Buchenwald. Not only did the prisoners have emotional scars, but also soldiers that helped liberate them. 

reading log

A True Diary of a Part Time Indian discussion- 20 mins 

detailed outline- 1 hour 

reading A True Diary of a Part Time Indian- 45 mins (outside and in class total)