Macduff's Nest in Ashes

This is my first Action Project for the class called Drama. In this first unit called Queen, we talked about queens in our lives and queens in Shakespearean plays. We started by giving our own examples of queens. We saw some of our own as strong, kind hearted, and compassionate towards others or their fans. We read The Tragedie of Macbeth in class to further understand the meaning behind a queen. It gave me a completely new twist on the definition of a queen because it talked about being power hungry, greedy, and tratorious intentions. In Macbeth, men were easily manipulated and sometimes women stepped up to lead the couple. These traits were shown better when we eventually watched the movie based on the book. This was the version that came out this year that starred Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. Leading to our action project we were assigned to write a sonnet to a Macbeth character of our choice. I decided to write my poem to Macduff because he’s a character that’s very accurate to gender roles at the time. He mainly kept his women and children at home while he was out fighting in the war. This caused Macduff to lose a lot because of his want to be a man. I want to give him a reality check after the events of the play.
Here's my poem below:

Macduff's Nest in Ashes

“The most diminutive of birds,will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl” 

 Macduff, thy eagle for a dying bundle of roses 

 f'r fairness in men and women constantly prowl

 Leaving batt'r'd bodies as the door closes 

 Becoming a man destroyed your reality 

 Betraying your family to fight the saddened side

 Your distance from your kin led to their fatality

 Your wife betrayed, dead because of your pride 

 Keepeth thy kingdom closer than your family 

 Respect their roles and live with regret

 New plans of action keep their sanity 

 With your sword go pay off your debts

To be a father to a growing Malcolm

Leading Scotland to blissful stardom 

Here's a video of the poem as well:

In this course I really enjoyed acting out and reading the story of Macbeth. Learning about the history of it is long but also enjoyable. I also enjoyed watching the movie to see the story in a different perspective. When working on this Action Project I sometimes found it difficult to get everything to rhyme and also have the volta point in the poem. I overcame this by simply rewriting the poem again until I was satisfied with it.

It’s Not All Handy Dandy - by RBL

 It’s Not All Handy Dandy

This is my first action project for my Cure class. This class is a second part to our Disease class last term. In this unit, titled Emergency, we’ve been learning about what can go wrong in the body and how to fix it. We first looked at the Hippocratic oath that doctors take, so we could see the rules that they follow. We also went to the International Museum for Surgical Science to see how different surgeries are done and why. As well as learning how different cells can reproduce through meiosis and mitosis. Leading up to our action project being to look up a surgery of our own choice and create a pamphlet about it that patients might see before getting that surgery. I decided to research Carpal Tunnel syndrome for my action project. In the cells, carpal tunnel syndrome can cause a stop in fluid production in the cells because of repeated use of the same action. From there these cells might cause friction in the system leading to the hand slowing down. can cause and here's my pamphlet below.

   

Overall I did enjoy doing this action project because it was interesting to see how carpal tunnel syndrome can effect different people. I also enjoyed doing research on how the surgery itself is done and how people can recover from it. I did find it difficult to start because I wasn’t sure how I should’ve written all of the information in a good manner. If I were to do it again, I would pick a surgery that I had more personal experience with.