Episodes
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Episode 95: Fantasy Sports Midterm Review
Episode 95: Fantasy Sports Midterm Review Running Time: 26:35 This Week's Guests: Mr. John Meehan and the 5th period students of Honors American Literature Tom Brady or Tom Sawyer? Eli Manning or Ethan Frome? What happens when we take the same principles of Fantasy Football and bring them to life...
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Episode 94: A Christmas Carol Radio Show (Re-Gift Edition!)
Episode 94: A Christmas Carol Radio Show (Re-Gift Edition)! Charles Dickens (1843) Running Time: 1:02:21 Original Air Date: 12/11/15 Directed By: Co-Director (student) Kathryn Baker Starring: The Narrator (student) Laura McLellan Scrooge - Fr. Gregory Thompson, Chaplain Fred - Mr. Trent Jones…
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Episode 93: The Podcast About Podcasts
Episode 93: The Podcast About Podcasts Running Time: 27:00 This Week's Guests: Mrs. Courtney Lewicki Mr. John Meehan This week, the Bishop O'Connell English department hits the road for the annual Virginia Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development's annual conference in Williamsburg,...
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Episode 92: What are You Thankful for, DJO?
Episode 92: What are You Thankful for, DJO? Running Time: 16:40 This Week's Guests: Dr. Joseph Vorbach, Head of School Mrs. Diane Cerniglia Ms. Allison Gibeily Natalie Leiva, Class of 2018 Roisin Bergeron, Class of 2018 Mrs. Courtney Lewicki Mr. John Meehan Just in time for the holidays…
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Episode 91: Student Battle Raps and Rhetoric REMIX!
Episode 91: Student Battle Raps and Rhetoric REMIX! Running Time: 23:40 This Week's Guests: Sabena Chadda as Jacob Black Elysse Anderson as Edward Cullen Serena Davis as Walt Disney Vanessa Nkurunziza as Dr. Seuss Alec Quiroga as Cristiano Rinaldo Seth Viani as Tom Brady Bishan Shourie as Darth...
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Episode 90: Student Battle Raps and Rhetoric
Episode 90: Student Battle Raps and Rhetoric Running Time: 20:12 This Week's Guests: Will Whitt as The Burger King Katie Geraghty as Inspector Javert Katherine Gardinier as Maximilien Robespierre Sophia Stalnaker as Cleopatra Abi Dinegar as Mary Queen of Scots Clara Cobb as Elvis Presley Hannah…
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Episode 89: The Declaration of Independence
Episode 89: The Declaration of Independence Running Time: 17:57 Thomas Jefferson (1776) This Week's Guests: Elysse Anderson Sofia Cardenas Sabena Chadda Katharine Colclough Thomas Cook Natalie Leiva Frank Lucchetti Vanessa Nkurunziza Hoang Pham Pio Soliven Our election season is drawing to a…
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Episode 88: A Student Club's Take on Edgar Allan Poetry
Episode 88: A Student Club's Take on Edgar Allan Poetry Running Time: 20:44 Edgar Allan Poe (1849) This Week's Guests: Thomas Bascom Jinlee Colucci Cameron Feeley Victoria Gordon Caileigh Keegan Just in time for Halloween, Bishop O'Connell's newest student organization -- the Poetry Club -- joins...
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Episode 87: Students Sound Off on Hamilton: An American Musical
Episode 87: Students Sound Off on Hamilton: An American Musical Running Time: 17:32 Lin-Manuel Miranda (2015) This Week's Guests: Mr. Meehan Erika Williams Tonight at part of their Great Performances series, PBS will air Hamilton's America -- an in-depth documentary about the making of the smash...
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Episode 86: Students Sound Off on Ethan Frome
Episode 86: Students Sound Off on Ethan Frome Running Time: 19:16 Edith Wharton (1911) This Week's Guests: Elysse Anderson Roisin Bergeron Ryley Howard Vanessa Nkurunziza Sofia Cardenas As the days grow shorter and the weather gets colder, Ethan Frome feels like a perfect book to discuss how a...
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Episode 85: Students Sound Off on "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Episode 85: Students Sound Off on "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Running Time: 18:37 This Week's Guests: Katharine Colclough Serena Davis Zacharias Muleta Nikolas Rocha Jessica Seager Our greatest hits of Ernest Hemingway continue this week, as Mr. Meehan welcomes five students from the eleventh grade...
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Episode 84: More Students Sound Off on "In Another Country"
Episode 84: More Students Sound Off on "In Another Country" Running Time: 19:36 This Week's Guests: Christopher Chehade Thomas Cook Christopher Ho Wake Wildman What happens when you get another room full of high school guys together in a room to talk about one of the all-time "man's men" of...
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Episode 83: Students Sound Off on "In Another Country"
Episode 83: Students Sound Off on "In Another Country" Running Time: 18:43 This Week's Guests: Daniel Danenberg Keenan Murphy Christopher Niland Michael Santos Seth Viani What happens when you get a room full of high school guys together in a room to talk about one of the all-time "man's men" of...
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Episode 82: Students Sound Off On The Moviegoer
Episode 82: Students Sound Off On The Moviegoer Walker Percy (1963) Running Time: 22:56 This Week's Guests: Abigail Dinegar Jennifer Joseph Kirsten Knauf Hannah Pin Sophia Stalnaker Eighty two episodes in and counting, and O'Connell's English Department Round Table continues to be a real hit with...
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Episode 81: Collaborative Learning
Episode 81: Collaborative Learning Running Time: 21:35 This Week's Guests: Mrs. Lewicki Mr. Meehan Mrs. Rimes Teamwork makes the dream work! And in the information age, this old adage has never been more true. Twenty first century classrooms, colleges, and employers are embracing the power of...
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Episode 80: Annotation 101
Episode 80: Annotation 101 Running Time: 18:52 This Week's Guests: Mr. Meehan Mrs. Swaim Mrs. Wentzel Taking notes while your reading is a time-tested strategy, but it can be pretty overwhelming to establish a meaningful system of note-taking that works for you. So what does it mean when teachers...
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Episode 79: Get to Know MyDJO!
Episode 79: Get to Know MyDJO! Running Time: 20:13 This Week's Guests: Mrs. Lewicki Mr. Meehan Have you heard the news about MyDJO? Teachers, coaches, counselors and school administrators are taking online learning to the next level thanks to all the cool features and functionality "MyDJO" has to...
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Episode 78: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Summer Reading Strategies)
Episode 78: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Summer Reading Strategies) Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) Running Time: 12:25 This Week's Topics: Guiding questions Close reading strategies Gothic novels Original Air Date: 8/7/15 Students are often told to "take notes" as they make their…
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Episode 77: Frankenstein (Summer Reading Strategies)
Episode 77: Frankenstein (Summer Reading Strategies) Mary Shelley (1818) Running Time: 12:25 This Week's Topics: Multiple narrators Close reading strategies Frame narrative Original Air Date: 7/31/15 After a two week summer hiatus, The DJO English Round Table Podcast is back! Students are often...
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Episode 76: A Farewell to Arms (Summer Reading Strategies)
Episode 76: A Farewell to Arms (Summer Reading Strategies) Ernest Hemingway (1929) Running Time: 9:11 This Week's Topics: Guiding questions Close reading strategies The Iceberg Technique Original Air Date: 7/24/15 Students are often told to "take notes" as they make their way through the summer...
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Join the DJO English Department for a round table discussion as we "talk shop" and podcast our way through the Bishop O'Connell High School curriculum! Think of it like a Book Club for the 21st Century.
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