With Honors
With Honors
Podcast Description
With Honors is a podcast about the lessons that stay with us long after the final bell. Hosted by an Honors and AP English teacher, this show features candid conversations with my current and former students, student teachers, and sometimes co-workers about the ideas, stories, and experiences that have shaped our learning. From deep dives into literature and philosophy to reflections on projects, discussions, and moments that mattered, With Honors is a space for revisiting the conversations that define our classroom—and, maybe, our lives. jcrock.substack.com
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The podcast explores a variety of themes including literary analysis, personal growth, and the educational journey, with episodes discussing topics like the symbolism of dragons in literature, effective study tips for Honors English, and poetry analysis through frameworks like TPCASTT. Each episode includes reflections on readings, school life experiences, and literary discussions that connect with broader life lessons.
With Honors is a podcast about the lessons that stay with us long after the final bell. Hosted by an Honors and AP English teacher, this show features candid conversations with my current and former students, student teachers, and sometimes co-workers about the ideas, stories, and experiences that have shaped our learning. From deep dives into literature and philosophy to reflections on projects, discussions, and moments that mattered, With Honors is a space for revisiting the conversations that define our classroom—and, maybe, our lives.
Zoe and Callie crack open the emotional and ironic heart of Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” in this week’s episode of With Honors. Chopin’s story is used every year in ELA classrooms. It’s one of those tales that hides a whole thunderstorm of truth in a single moment: about the rules of marriage, social expectations, freedom, and the things we assume about the people closest to us. The girls take that apart with a kind of honesty and empathy, connecting Chopin’s 19th-century widow to the invisible pressure points of teen life today. What does it mean to want space? To feel trapped by expectations? To be misunderstood even when everyone sitting beside you in class means well? They don’t dodge the hard stuff. Instead, they lean into it, showing how a 600-word story can still spark big realizations about the way we live, love, and see each other (or fail to). Bonus points if you can catch the series of bells, voices, and intercom announcements from the end-of-day school chaos that threatened to steal the mic. It’s the honest sound of a regular school day, but Zoe and Callie stay locked in, like pros, proving that when a story lands, nothing can really drown it out.
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