1APRIL2016

Objective: Act 5, Scene 1 Lady Macbeth is falling physically ill due to her inner and emotional turmoil. The objective of this lesson will be to discuss the connection of our physical beings and our emotional beings, and to find some parallels of this phenomenon in the student's lives.

1) "Physical" and "Emotional" Write a short essay about how these two terms are connected. How are these connected? What examples of this have you seen in your life? Why are they connected? Do you believe they can affect each other? Why or why not?
       Physical and emotional are related in that they are both cognitive thinking. Emotional is more along the lines of how one processes information and physical is maintaining attention to focus on a task. You can feel both physical and emotional pain, sadness, joy, and happiness. 
       Examples of these are that when I was younger, I always got scratches from my dog; these are physical pains. Emotional is when someone hurts you in a way that they may have spoken badly about you or said something mean to you. 
        These two things are connected in that they are both painful, they hurt the same, it is just a different kind of pain. Yes, I do believe these two things can have a rebound affect on each other to affect the other. They can affect each other because one pain relates back to another.

2) Reread the part that describes the ailments Lady Macbeth is suffering from. Write about what you think is causing these strange physical ailments.
Lady Macbeth is sleep walking with her eyes open. Her sleep walking creates a scene for the audience to understand what is going on and what she is thinking. The sleep walking comes from her husband, Macbeth, killing someone. 

3) Reread the part where the doctor says that Lady Macbeth needs a priest and not a doctor. What does she mean by this? Do you agree with him? Why or why not? What can a priest give her that a doctor cannot? What made the doctor say this? Do you think the doctor could have done more for her than he did? Why or why not?
This means that a doctor can not cure her, she needs God in her life to save her from these supernatural occurrences. Priests can give Lady Macbeth somethings doctors can not because doctors do not have the cure in this time period to save her. 

4) Lady Macbeth is feeling the physical effects of her emotional turmoil. Write about a time when an emotional ailment of this sort manifested itself in a physical way.
Emotional ailments, like when someone lies to their mother and the child has to continue making more lies to cover up for their one little white lie, are times when it manifested and grew bigger than it ever should have been.

Objective: Act 5, Scene 2 Loyalty is a very common theme in this book. The objective of this lesson will be to discuss some of the examples of loyalty shown between the different characters.

1) Write down your definition of the word Loyalty. Now write the dictionary definition. How does the dictionary definition match up with all of ours? Is there something missing? What do we need to add to make it whole?

To me, loyalty means that someone can trust someone and they do not talk badly about you or to you; they never hurt you. The dictionary definition of loyalty is: a strong feeling of support or allegiance. The support from the dictionary definition to my definition was missing. To make the definition whole, we need to change the definition to never hurting anyone. 

2) Make a list of all the characters we have met thus far. Which three characters  have best shown loyalty. Use examples from the book to back up your choices.
-Macbeth
-Lady Macbeth
-The three witches
-Banquo
-Macduff
-King Duncan
-Malcolm
-Hecate
-Fleance
-Lennox
-The murderers
The three characters that have shown loyalty are: Lady Macbeth, the three witches, and the murderers. 

3) Reread the part where Macbeth mourns his lack of loyalty. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
I agree with Macbeth in that he knows he is not loyal because he continues to see ghosts of Banquo and it is freaking him out and making him say things that would get him caught.

4) Macbeth states that Duncan used to be the most loyal men he has ever known. Write about the most loyal person you know.
The most loyal person I know is my father. When he and I agree on something he always backs me up on my opinion.