I had to memorize a monologue from one of Shakespeare's plays. This was much harder then I first anticipated. His monologues were long and in an older form of English that makes no sense no a days. I chose to do scene from Macbeth. It was the scene where Macbeth is about to kill the king and sees a dagger before him. This dagger is an illusion that he sees that points toward the king's room. He knows what he is about to do is wrong and this is a bad sign for Macbeth but he continues on and commits the crime. This was a long scene and was very difficult to memorize. But now I can say I have memorized a monologue of Shakespeare. My teacher told me to add an extra line so here it is.

I found this movie to be both exciting and interesting. It was a good movie even though some of the facts fall short of what really happened. There was no account what so ever of there being a romance between Sibylla and Balian. But it did add a good romance to the movie. Also Saladin didn't go straight to Jerusalem  after winning hattin. He tried to have an absolute victory by taking over every main city on the way to Jerusalem. Although if they had put this in the movie it would have been far to long of a film. There were some lines in the movie that someone back in the 12 century just wouldn't say. When Balians father is lying on his death bed he says he regrets all his sins, except for one. Referring to him conceiving his illegitimate son. Back in the 12th century a man about to meet God wouldn't have said he didn't regret all his sins this is a 21st century line squeezed in. This was a good film but just isn't historically accurate.

I learned the difference between medicinal, pleasure, cloister, and kitchen gardens. A kitchen garden is what you use to make eatable plants to use in the kitchen. A medicinal garden is used to make herbs and other plants for healing. A pleasure garden is there just to be pretty. A cloister garden is for meditating.

In this video it showed a roman bath house. the way we take a bath and the way they took a bath are two very different things. We like to go into our bathroom and close the door and enjoy our privacy as we undress and jump in the shower or sink into a bath. this was not the case with the Romans. They had public baths. It was very closely related to a sauna. everyone got in a steamed room with a pool of water and took a bath. This is just how things were in their culture, but in each city they had their own rules about bathing. some towns let men and women bathe together and others didn't. i found this strange but thats just because i live in the 21st century.