Honesty,..he's 17. He's old enough to learn from his choices. If he stays up late, he'll be tired.
Either he lives with that or he learns that some things have to wait...some things like sleep are more important. Better he learn this now. Soon enough he'll be a college student (I assume as much), and he'll be entirely responsible for his schedule.
Getting up on time, getting to class on time etc etc. This last yr of school is good practice for the real world.
He's a teenager, he's not going to go to sleep early. That's just how it is.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.