2 episodes
The Backpack: An English 1 Podcast The Backpack: An English 1 Podcast
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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The Backpack is a podcast where we unpack the history, culture, and context behind the novels, stories, and poems we are reading in class.
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True Grit: Territory and Book Setting (Episode Two)
In this podcast, Social Studies Department Chair Mr. Rixon discusses the history of the setting we experience in the novel True Grit.
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True Grit: History of Slave States vs. Free States
In this podcast, Social Studies Department Chair Mr. Rixon discusses the history of free and slaves states in the American West, as we see in the novel True Grit.
Customer Reviews
Thoughtful perspective
So impressed with this podcast, and not just because Ms. Westbrook is my niece! Now I want to go back and read the book, and listen again to this fascinating historical perspective. Imagine, how completely different from today the two parties were in the late 19th c.