Debating Ophelia’s Death—and Becoming a Better Teacher
    
    
                                                        
        Teaching Shakespeare
        
            
            
    
Debating Ophelia’s Death—and Becoming a Better Teacher
I am an English teacher because of my English teachers. What dedication I have I learned from a man who had Paradise Lost taken off of his syllabus but came into work an hour early, each day, to teach…
    
    Hamlet's Ophelia: How imagery supports characterization
    
    
                                            
        Teaching Shakespeare
        
            
            
    
Hamlet's Ophelia: How imagery supports characterization
By Jill Burdick-Zupancic In English 10, I chose to study Macbeth with the students this year. However, because we were also looking at how imagery supports characterization, I decided to get them back into the world of Shakespeare with a…