Reading Warm Up Macbeth Act V Scene 5, 6, 7 & 8

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Reading Warm Up Macbeth Act V Scene 5, 6, 7 & 8

Clara Barton was a teacher, a nurse, a suffragette, and the founder of the American Red Cross. Born in 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, she was raised in a progressive family and educated at an early age. The youngest of five children, she cared for a vulnerable older brother during his extended illness; she was accustomed to nursing by the time she was 11.

By the age of 17, Barton was a teacher, the career she followed for almost two decades. Barton was first hired by a private school in Bordertown, New Jersey, to instruct the daughters of the gentry; eventually, she founded a public school there, one of the first in the state. However, Barton retired from education shortly afterwards, disappointed by the lack of opportunities for women.

When the Civil War began, Barton left her job to minister to the wounded soldiers who were crowding Washington, D.C. She insisted, though, that medical help was desperately needed on the front, and she finally received permission to take the supplies directly to the battlefields. Her trips to the front gave her first-hand experience with the agitation, panic, and chaos in field hospitals and exposed her to the grimmest casualties of war, which were subjects on which she lectured for years.

In 1869, Barton traveled to Europe and learned about the Red Cross. While accompanying volunteers to the front of the Franco-Prussian War, she saw how the organization fortifies field hospitals with supplies and personnel. Oblivious to their own danger, which was great, members of the Red Cross cared for the wounded of both armies.

Barton returned to the United States in 1873, determined to create an American branch of the Red Cross. She realized this goal 1881, and she served as its first president. She amended the organization's mission to include peacetime disaster relief for famine, floods, pestilence, and earthquakes throughout the world.

1. Highlight the phrase that suggests why the brother was vulnerable. Then, explain what a vulnerable person might want to do.

2. Highlight the word that tells what Barton was accustomed to. Then, tell what accustomed means.

3. Highlight the words that tell where the gentry sent their daughters. Give a synonym for gentry.

4. Highlight the words that tell to whom Barton went to minister. Then, tell where you might see people minister to others today.

5. Highlight the word that gives a clue to the meaning of agitation. Why would people experience agitation in a field hospital?

6. Highlight the words that tells what the Red Cross fortifies hospitals with. Then, use fortifies in a sentence of your own.

7. Highlight the words that tell to what members were oblivious. Then, explain why being oblivious might have been helpful to them.

8. Highlight the word that tells what kind of event a famine is. Then, explain what people might do to help in a famine.