Reading Times

Read for 2 hours, with outside reading being an hour and a half and the poems being 30 minutes.

Reading Times

Reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms at home and Conference of the Birds at school.

Animal Collective's "Summertime Clothes"

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/animalcollective/summertimeclothes.html

Song is "Summertime Clothes" by Animal Collective.

This song uses anaphora a lot, mostly to give it a cool pre-Avey-going-insane-and-the-group-making-pop-music-aimed-at-the-lowest-common-denominator-of-fans style AnCo rhythm. "Kissing the wind through my window screen" is apostrophe, I think. It also uses personification in places. I really don't know how to expand further than this. 
Ok ok, got it. so the whole song represents AnCo's innocence and enthusiasm to make great experimental psych pop but because Avey looked into the future and saw the abomination that was Centipede Hz, and also the chick that nearly broke up the group whose name I forgot. She's also an artist, but I refuse to listen to any of her music because of what she did to Avey. It's like she didn't even listen to Merriweather Post Pavilion. Anyway so he saw all of that and wrote this song. Walking around during the summer represents all the psych pop goodness, and his desire to walk around with "her" is his passion to make music.  It could also be a simple song about walking around in our summertime clothes. But I like my idea with time wizards Avey Tare and Panda Bear. Ooh, it counts as both a symbol and a metaphor. Avey so smart. The song also uses end rhyme, but you said not to list that so I don't know. 

Poem "ten outta ten"

Bing bang

ballah Kow Zo.

You know what I know

and I don't grow

flowers.

Ooh aah

so unique.

So progress

So mystique.

Mystique wasn't used right.

what a shame.

If I were famous

This would probably 

be much more expensive.

Let's make a price.

But but but

You will soon forget

All this and that

the CIA funded modern art to combat communism.

Never mind that was a joke.

No it wasn't.

Gaude Mater Polonia

is the only Polish phrase I know

God bless the Poles

May they always show

True true Polish courage

Teutons be mad.

This poem, titled "ten outta ten", used Assonance, Cacophony, Onomatopoeia, and Anaphora.

[LATE] Reading Times

I straight up read for three hours. Conference of the Birds, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. Also had the flu so please don't count this as late!

Research Draft Paper

While I thought my paper was pretty good, I'm really concerned about the fact that it's only three pages. I even added unnecessary quotes just to lengthen it. I really hate having a minimum number of pages on papers, because it makes me struggle to jam things in even when I've made my point. Still, I think it's pretty good OH MY GOD I JUST NOW REALIZED I DIDN'T PUT MY CITATIONS.

Free Post

So I got this cool map of the world from 1914 and I hung it on my wall. It's a reprint of course, but it's still really neat to look at. I'm getting back into reading a bit more after I bought Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Conference of the Birds. I'm reading Conference now and it makes me feel bad for not wanting to straight up go wander in the desert for God or something. The translation is also really pretty, if that's how you describe it.

Reading February 3rd

Read a lot, worked a lot. All together I'd say about 4 1/2-5 hours worth.

Reading January 24 [LATE]

Read for like 3 hours, been getting back into it. I did the annotated bib for the nhd project, and read some of the class book.

2 for 1 NHD explanation thing [LATE]

1:

Oh heyo friend, have you heard of the rad new project in English? It's called the national history day research paper, and it's, like, totally wizard! I'm doing my topic on healthcare reforms in the US, wazouuu! I'm not really interested in the topic at all but I kind of misunderstood the directions and thought it had to be current events, basoooooooooooooon! I'm pretty far in research and have realized that Scandinavia (excluding Finland and Sweden) and Switzerland are the greatest places on earth, cawkaaaaaaaaa!


2:

My National History Day project is focused on Health Care reforms in the US. This topic interests me because of recent events and legislature. My thesis is: Health Care reforms can bring both positive and negative effects to the US.