Tokay High School’s Jennifer Cassel shares her passion for English

Classroom Hero Tokay High School’s Jennifer Cassel shares her passion for English

Posted: Monday, December 5, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 7:35 am, Mon Dec 5, 2011.

If someone had told Jennifer Cassel upon her graduation from Lodi High School that in 20 years she would be teaching English classes to teenagers, she would have called them crazy. But one literature class at University of California, Davis, intended as a break from her heavy engineering major course load, was all it took to change her mind.

"It felt like coming home," she said. Now she teaches three periods of senior AP English literature at Tokay, along with college prep English for juniors, with so much passion that her students say they have been converted into Shakespeare fans.

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