For 10 seniors, seventh hour isn’t just a regular class. Class time isn’t spent discussing “A Separate Piece” or solving differential equations. Seventh hour is spent writing plays and designing backdrops. Seventh hour is Advanced Repertory Theatre class.
Senior Jean Orr exhibits the hard work she’s been putting into playing the violin since the fourth grade.
It was after two months of demanding dance classes and competitive auditions that senior Grayson McGuire found a reason to believe that he didn’t graduate early for nothing. After auditioning for Travis Wall’s [from “So You Think You Can Dance?”] new reality TV show, the casting director made it a point to tell McGuire that he would have made it if he wasn’t still 17.
Gehring-Lowery is leaving behind the people and events of East during the last weekend in May. She is moving to the town of Flower Mound, north of Fort Worth, TX. Her husband, Joshua Lowery, has been in Texas since the beginning of November after accepting a job with Wilson Mohr, an industrial controls company.
Senior Miguel Bojórquez discusses where his passion for art originated and why it has stuck with him.
Anna Sheridan grows closer to her family as they work side-by-side at Sheridan’s Frozen Custard.
Rated as one of the top 100 juniors in the state of Texas by www.texasfootball.com, Shawnee Mission East’s football team has a new quarterback. And although junior Jordan Darling has a new home at East, he has lived a life of a nomad. Having called four different states and two different countries “home,” Platte City is where Jordan learned to play the game that defines his life today.
Choir students in Choraliers discuss what they are most looking forward to about going to Italy to perform over Spring Break
Samie Fetzer has been sending out a carefully selected quote of the day every day since the beginning of this school year.
The Center for Disease Control’s national survey of Children’s Health reported an 830 percent increase in children diagnosed with ADD or ADHD from 1985 to 2011. Children’s Mercy Officials say this extreme increase is debated to be a result of misdiagnoses.
Sophomore Gaby Azorsky scrolls up and down her bright green, blue and orange website that is La Mode du Jour. She scans the cursor over the different panels including an outfit log, food guide and make-up tutorials while still trying to brainstorm even more trends and ideas to fill the pages with. La Mode du Jour, Gaby’s blog, is where she expresses her love for fashion.
