Education
April 20, 2018

Panther Pause: AP English students discover passions through projects for most of school year

By Jacob Runnels

By Kate White

Since the beginning of the second quarter this school year, Fridays in English teacher Diane Smeenk’s AP English language and composition class have been dedicated to students developing their passions.
This means students have one fifth of their week to develop a passion project, with...

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