Modern Kids: Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911

The Museum of Modern Art has not included the painting with the podcast for Marc Chagall’s I and the Village, perhaps due to copyright law. I’ve included a link to the painting. If at all possible, open two windows on your browser. Use one to listen to the podcast, the other to view the painting at the same time.


courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art

Here is the painting that accompanies this podcast.

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Aesop’s Fables Volume 1

Aesop The goose that laid the golden egg

Aesop’s Fables Volume 1

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Introduction by G. K. Chesterton

Aesop The fox and the grapes, project gutenberg etext 19994

The Fox and The Grapes

The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs

The Cat and the Mice

The Mischievous Dog

Aesop The Mischevious Dog

The Charcoal-Burner and The Fuller

The Mice in Council

The Bat And The Weasels

The Dog and The Sow

The Fox And The Crow

Aesop, Wenceslas Hollar, Fox and crow

The Horse and the Groom

The Wolf and the Lamb

The Peacock And The Crane

The Cat And The Birds

The Spendthrift and the Swallow

The Old Woman and the Doctor

The Moon and her Mother

Mercury and the Woodman

The Ass, The Fox, and The Lion

The Lion And The Mouse

Aesop The Lion and the Mouse

The Crow And The Pitcher

The Boys and The Frogs

The North Wind and The Sun

Aesop The North Wind and the Sun

The Mistress and Her Servants

The Goods and The Ills

The Hares and The Frogs

In God’s Garden by Amy Steedman

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Total running time: 3 hours, 41 minutes

Augustine of Hippo

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Chapter 1  Saint Ursula

Chapter 2  Saint Benedict

Chapter 3  SaintChristopher

Chapter 4  Saint Catherine of Sienna

Chapter 5 Saint Augustine of Hippo

Chapter 6 Saint Augustine of Canterbury

Chapter 7  Saint Cecilia

Chapter 8  Saint Giles

Chapter 9 Saint Nicholas

Chapter 10  Saint Faith

Chapter 11 Saint Cosmo and Saint Damian

Chaper 12 Saint Martin


13 – Saint George

Saint Francis of Assisi by Jose de Ribera
Saint Francis of Assisi by Jose de Ribera

14 – Saint Francis of Assisi

Martin Luther

Luther before the Diet of Worms

Martin Luther, a monk, came to realize that salvation was through grace alone by faith alone, and not by works. He posted his 95 theses on the Wittenburg Door and was tried as a heretic at the Diet of Worms, where he refused to recant his writings. It was there he said those famous words, “I cannot–I WILL NOT recant….Here I stand: I can do no other.”

Click the link below to hear an audio recording of what Martin Luther said at the Diet of Worms.

Before the Diet of Worms by Martin Luther

An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther, excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (chapter 9)

Luther posting his 95 theses in 1517

Listen to The Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther

Scene from Martin Luther movie when Luther goes before the Diet of Worms

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg at the typewriter

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Carl Sandburg Biography in Sound

Carl Sandburg: Selected poems

Fog by Carl Sandburg

Fog e-text

Chicago Poet by Carl Sandburg

Read the text of Chicago Poet, along with several other Sandburg poems, at Poet’s Corner. This link will take you away from My Audio School.  Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.

Soup by Carl Sandburg

Soup

I saw a famous man eating soup.
I say he was lifting a fat broth
Into his mouth with a spoon.
His name was in the newspapers that day
Spelled out in tall black headlines
And thousands of people were talking about him.

When I saw him,
He sat bending his head over a plate
Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon.

Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes,
Sob on the long cool winding saxophones.
Go to it, O jazzmen.

Sling your knuckles on the bottoms of the happy tin pans,
Let your trombones ooze,
And go hushahusha-hush with the slippery sand-paper.

Moan like an autumn wind high in the lonesome tree-tops,
Moan soft like you wanted somebody terrible,
Cry like a racing car slipping away from a motorcycle cop,
Bang-bang! you jazzmen,
Bang altogether drums, traps, banjoes, horns, tin cans-
Make two people fight on the top of a stairway
And scratch each other’s eyes in a clinch tumbling down the stairs.

Can the rough stuff …
Now a Mississippi steamboat pushes up the night river
With a hoo-hoo-hoo-oo …
And the green lanterns calling to the high soft stars …
A red moon rides on the humps of the low river hills …
Go to it, O jazzmen.

This Country of Ours, part 3:Stories of New England, by H. E. Marshall

Arresting a Witch by Pyle

This is Part 3: Stories of New England, from chapter 22 (The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers) to chapter 34 (The Witches of Salem).

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George Henry Boughton, Pilgrims Going To Church

The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers

The Founding of Massachusetts

The Story of Harry Vane

Anne Hutchinson on Trial

The Story of Anne Hutchinson and the Founding of Rhode Island

The Founding of Harvard

How the Quakers First Came to New England

Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom

How Maine and New Hampshire were Founded

The Founding of Connecticut and War with the Indians

The Founding of New Haven

The Hunt for the Regicides

King Philip's War- Capture of Brookfield, Connecticut

King Phillip’s War

How the Charter of Connecticut was Saved

The Witches of Salem

Salem

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This Country of Ours, part 6, chapters 51-63

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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She Caught Toto by the Ear, an illustration by W. W. Denslow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900

00 – Introduction

01 – TheCyclone

Wicked Witch of the East

02 – The Council with the Munchkins

03 – How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow

Woz Dorothy and the Scarecrow 1900

04 – The Road Through the Forest

Tin Woodman as pictured in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, picture by William Wallace Denslow, 1900

05 – The Rescue of the Tin Woodman

06 – The Cowardly Lion

Dorothy meets the Cowardly Lion, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first edition, 1900, illustration by W. W. Denslow

07 – The Journey to the Great Oz

08 – The Deadly Poppy Field

09 – The Queen of the Field Mice

10 – The Guardian of the Gates

11 – The Emerald City of Oz

Wicked Witch of the West, as pictured in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, picture by William Wallace Denslow, 1900

12 – The Search for the Wicked Witch

13 – The Rescue

The flying monkeys, an illustration by W. W. Denslow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900

14 – The Winged Monkeys


15 – The Discovery of Oz the Terrible

Wizard of Oz as pictured in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, picture by William Wallace Denslow, 1900

16 – The Magic Art of the Great Humbug

17 – How the Balloon Was Launched

18 – Away to the South

19 – Attacked by the Fighting Trees

20 – The Dainty China Country

21 – The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts

22 – The Country of the Quadlings

Glinda the Good, from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum, picture by Jonathan R. Neill, 1920

23 – Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish

24 – Home Again