Lit is Lit: Recent Episodes
Luis Manuel Diores
One Literature teacher and a bunch of crazy-smart (and sometimes just crazy) high school students talking about books (ranging from Shakespeare to Stan Lee).
Our 5th season's final episode is another Grammar one- this time hosted by the Grade 9! Welcome to the podcast circus, Teacher Amanda!
Before all the class chronicles and valedictory speeches, the upcoming graduates answered the question: What really makes a good speech?
🌽TIME STAMPS🌽00:00-03:20: Intro🌽03:21-25:36: Battle 1-Artus🌽25:37-39:49: Battle 2-Eugeans🌽39:50-58:50: Battle 3-Sukiho🌽58:51-1:14:44: Battle 4-Anesidora & Astreanic🌽1:14:45-1:27:11: Battle 5-Outlaw🌽1:27:12-1:46:28: Battle 6-Exogiino🌽1:46:29-2:27:05: Battle 7-Penny Lane🌽2:27:06-2:33:23: Closer & Infinity Stone Awarding
An insightful end to the podcast's first "Lord of the Flies" trilogy set. Also changed the artworks and emojis for the first 2 so that they'd all match! Give those episodes a listen for the full educational experience.
Ranking abstracts with an x-tra sassy Grade x. Teacher Amanda's 2nd Lit is Lit podcast episode, a sequel to her 1st! Are we getting a Term Paper Trilogy from her?
I got my peaches out in Georgia (oh John Keats)
I get my poems for Porphyria (Butler Yeats)
This is a special one! The first-ever and long-awaited sequel to our To Kill a Mockingbird Exam Episode series.
I finally found the time to edit and post the Death Debate S.Y. 2022-2023! I think this might be one of the most helpful podcast episodes for future G9 students!
Just the Grade 9 and their Lit teacher chatting casually about crowns, monsters, and K-dramas.
Kicking off season 5 of the Lit is Lit podcast by saying good-bye to Generation 5. Cover art created by Michael Villegas (aka KUYA).
7 battles, the 6th stone, 5 hours of checking, 4 big 3 heroes, a 2-hour episode, and 1 awesome Lit class! Let's go!
📕TIME STAMPS📕00:00 - 3:57 : Introduction to Alumni Battles 2023📕3:58 - 17:44 : Renegade Battle📕17:45 - 31:10 : Fusion Battle📕31:11 - 55:49 : Narleon Battle📕55:50 - 1:08:19 : Superhottie Battle📕1:08:20 - 1:33:16 : Aesth Battle📕1:33:17 - 1:51:02 : Magenta Battle📕1:51:03 - 2:09:00 : Mystil Battle📕2:09:00 - 2:11:27 : Outro and Good-Bye
🔊LOWER THE VOLUME A LITTLE BIT FOR THIS ONE. I had to crank up the volume during editing so everyone could be heard and now it sounds like I'm screaming at the microphone (which I tend to do anyway). Anyway, this is our 13th episode for the 4th season AND the student's end-of-the-quarter book exam for "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
The episode where Teacher Ing had to carry the class because his Lit students were replaced with zombies the day of the recording.
💙"Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope
💚"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick
❤️"She was a Phantom of Delight" by William Wordsworth
💜"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.” - Gregory Maguire, WICKED
🤍Episode Cover Art by Izhi Dico🤍
Sinister 6 Feedback in 7 (lol...not possible, more like 27) minutes. Didn't edit this one at all, so it is exactly what the title says. You were warned: this is gonna be a chaotic one!
Fahrenheit 451 + Full Creative Control for the Students = A podcast episode that is surprisingly not as chaotic as I thought it would be
Olympian Battles S.Y. 2022-2023: Try to count how many times Teacher Ing says, "okay" and "alright"!
A showdown between robot knights and angelic virgins in Planet Persona! Who will come out as the greatest poet?
"Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call (us GENERATION V)!"
Listen to the season 3 finale of our 2-year-old Lit podcast!!!
Link to the Lit is Lit Website/Big 3 Wall of Fame
https://luismanueldiores.wixsite.com/litislit/the-wall-of-fame
"I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.” -Death from 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak
The student heroes are back...and fighting for their lives against the Pro-Hero Alumni! Who will win? Who will lose? Who will get ice cream? Listen to find out!
The students survived Odette...but can they survive Teacher Ing's savage poetry feedback session? Listen to find out!
SPOTIFY COMPANION PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kqxDizWDHGuL81O6pMktq?si=660be9511c96464d
(Warning: This episode description is extra edgy.) Are you sick of it? Are you sorry? Do you know why?
What does it take to beat an Olympian? Some color, a sense of humor, your inner child, and a well-written essay!
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. -CHARLES BUKOWSKI
"Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.” -S.E. HINTON
No description can do justice to the awesomeness of this episode. Just listen to it!!!
👇Link to the Battle 7 Student Plan👇
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NwKJulVT7D7zLfAPr4eHo5SAfr6cwn8j/view?usp=sharing
"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything." -WILLIAM GOLDING
“I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.” - H. P. Lovecraft
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." -EDGAR ALLAN POE
"Love is scientific, man. I mean, it's really a chemical reaction in the brain. Sometimes that reaction lasts a lifetime, repeating itself over and over again. And sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it goes supernova and then starts to fade. We're all just chemical hearts. Does that make love any less brilliant? I don't think so.” -Krystal Sutherland
Have you missed us? We're back with a new season! Kicking it off with another poetry and music session where T. Ing makes a shocking confession!
YOUTUBE COMPANION PLAYLIST
PLAYLIST LINK: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLty8MmndUSFcHLTDKyD3ksR_tfk6x7ggY
SPOTIFY COMPANION PLAYLIST
PLAYLIST LINK: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03XMFgiIj1i7gpiC1GxDkm?si=gv7007I0Qh-pjRO67YPVzg
SPOTIFY URL: spotify:playlist:03XMFgiIj1i7gpiC1GxDkm
Our finale episode where Electro is zapped, Kraven is kaput, Doc Oc is defeated, Sandman is slaughtered, Mysterio is massacred, and the Vulture is vanquished. The MVP gets the SPACE STONE 💎.
The episode where we write poetry & listen to music.
SPOTIFY COMPANION PLAYLIST
PLAYLIST LINK: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2U9a38AeKVwR2A4lKLEfxT?si=pYB-G2ehSOyXEsQyXz-9GA
SPOTIFY URL: spotify:playlist:2U9a38AeKVwR2A4lKLEfxT
The episode where Brad Pitt is too old, Billie Eilish is too happy, Benedict Cumberbatch is too sexy to be scary, and Tom Brady and Cardi B randomly show up.
The episode where Kraig is never gonna give you up, Zee can't stop talking about food, Jared can't find his soulmate, and Aldrienne is a feminist.
The episode where Hannah wears red, Jovy wins a point for the other team, Liv makes a lucky guess, and Michael is the MVP.
The episode where we fight about which love story is more legendary, PLDT sucks, people show up, and true love for Lit conquers all.
The episode where Teacher Ing gets triggered, Dirk saves lives, Dana writes about love, and Brandon uses a meat shield.
The episode where we are young, heartache to heartache we stand, no promises, no demands; and love is a battlefield. We also discuss Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales.
The episode where hearts laugh, women fight back, fish smile, Bukowski drops the mic, and we don’t do it.
The first episode in an alternate universe where Keenan supports, Job sweats, Liv makes a half-awesome Powerpoint, and Mikhaela does or doesn't jump.
The first episode where the class discusses whether the Literature world should break up or simp over Beowulf. Extra mini-episode: The BAE-NAY-shed Wife's Lament.