At Deltona High School, between walls decorated with literature posters, African face masks and a portrait of a vampiric Mona Lisa, the words of Macbeth rang out.
When not reciting Macbeth’s lines early Wednesday morning, English teacher Dylan Emerick-Brown looked on as his students read the end of the play aloud. He stopped the class when an important moment came up to analyze the lines in their context, to answer a question, and to elicit a round of laughter when pulling the fake severed head of the fictional Scottish General out of a drawer.
And while some students might not care about Shakespearean plot twists or the importance of foreshadowing in literature, the death of Lady Macbeth and the Cesarean section surprise was met with cries of ‘Oh no!’ and gasps from the seven-student audience.