The Backpack: An English 1 Podcast
The Backpack: An English 1 Podcast·2 episodes
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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The Backpack is built for students and curious readers who want a clearer path into assigned literature. Each short episode adds historical and cultural context around texts being read in class, so a novel like True Grit becomes easier to place in the world that shaped it. It is especially useful if you like compact, teacher-guided explanations rather than long literary debates.
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In this podcast, Social Studies Department Chair Mr. Rixon discusses the history of the setting we experience in the novel True Grit.
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.
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