Educational resources for busy parents
Here are some links for the old time radio theater show Mr. President. I believe the intent is for children to listen to the broadcast and then guess which president is being described.
For your reference, I have labeled them.
US Grant Secretary of War Scandal
Theodore Roosevelt, episode 213
Theodore Roosevelt, episode 72
Additional Episodes:
Read this book online or read it on your Kindle or other e-reader.
Total running time: 10 hours, 3 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleanic battle – Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris for Librivox)
04 – The Privateer’s Rendezvous
This episode of Sound of History focuses on West Berlin with two historic speeches from that city. The first speech was made 2 years after the Berlin Wall was built, and the second 2 years before the wall came down. These speeches are from John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987.
This episode also contains a very brief summary of the history of the Berlin Wall and a 1920s recording by Benny Goodman.
Read this book online or on your Kindle or e-reader.
Total running time: 4 hours, 25 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
Introduction: This story surrounds a child waif, a young woman, a young gentleman doctor, and an elderly lady. This tale unfolds the story of a bond that brings these unlikely friends together and merges their separate paths of life into one common path. The bond is “Dumps”, or “Pompey”, the “doggie”. With many twists, turns, and uncertainties, the ending may surprise the reader. All’s well that ends well in this doggie “tail”. (Introduction by Allyson Hester for Librivox)
02 Ch 2 – Introduces a New Hero
03 Ch 3 – Treats of an Old Heroine
04 Ch 4- In Which Dumps Finds Another Old Friend
05 Ch 5 – Conspiracy and Villainy, Innocence and Tragedy
06 Ch 6 – Relates a Stirring Innocent.
07 Ch 7 – My Circumstances begin to Brighten.
08 Ch 8 – Little Slidder Resists Temptation Successfully, and I Become Enslaved.
09 Ch 9 – On the Scent, but Puzzled.
10 Ch 10 – A Disappointment, an Accident, and a Perplexing Return.
11 Ch 11 – Relates Generally to the Doings and Sayings of Robin Slidder
12 Ch 12 – Begins with Love, Hope, and Joy, and ends Peculiarly.
Read this book and see the pictures online or on your Kindle or e-reader.
Total running time: 9 hours, 41 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
01 – The Story of the Hero Makoma
03 – Story of the King Who Would See Paradise
04 – How Isuro the Rabbit Tricked Gudu
07 – How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon
16 – The Adventures of a Jackal
17 – The Adventures of the Jackal’s Eldest Son
18 – The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal
19 – The Three Treasures of the Giants
24 – The Frog and the Lion Fairy
25 – The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired
29 – Adventures of an Indian Brave
Read this book online or on your Kindle or e-reader.
Total running time:? 11 hours, 31 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
Summary:? During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrecked 6 years earlier, and believed to be held prisoner by the ‘Tiger of Mysore’. (Summary by annise for Librivox)
Summary: William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath. Probably written in 1599 and among the first of Shakespeare’s plays to be performed at the Globe Theater, Julius Caesar is one of his best-known dramas and has received innumerable performances throughout the centuries. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden after Wikipedia)
Click here to see downloadable CurrClick materials which could be used in a study of Shakespeare. Clicking this link will take you away from My Audio School.
To hear this drama, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
Total running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
This popular book gives young children an overview of King’s life and work
Our friend, Martin is an old animated video about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last speech, given the day before he was assassinated
The Complete “I have a Dream” speech, August 28, 1963
excerpt from King’s “I have a Dream” speech
Walter Cronkite reports on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the “CBS Evening News”
Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children. We recommend watching You Tube videos in full screen mode or here on My Audio School rather than directly on You Tube.
CBS Football Broadcast War Bulletin
FDR declares war on Japan
CBS John Charles Daly Reports Pearl Harbor Attack
Original Pearl Harbor Newsreel Footage
CBS Joint Congress Session Declaration of War Proceedings
You can find more audio and video of FDR’s Fireside chats, presidential addresses and much more at The American Presidency Project. Clicking this link will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School!
Parents, please do not allow your children to peruse YouTube (or any other video sharing site) alone, and preview all video content before sharing with your children.
Read this story online or download Andersen’s Fairy Tales for your Kindle or other e-reader device.
This is Part 6: Stories of the Struggle for Liberty, from chapter 51 (The Boston Tea-Party) to chapter 63 (A Turning Point in the World’s History). There is a 7th volume but the recording of it has not been completed yet.
Read this book online or on your Kindle or e-reader.
Internet archive page for Part 6
To stream this post, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles.
53 The First Thrust – The Battle of Bunker Hill
55 The Birth of a Great Nation
56 The Darkest Hour – Trenton and Princeton
57 Burgoyne’s Campaign – Bennington and Oriskany
58 Burgoyne’s Campaign – Bemis Heights, Saratoga
59 Brandywine – Germantown – Valley Forge
63 A Turning Point in the World’s History
Other parts of this book can be found here:
Summary: The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though some of the author’s opinions are very dated now, the journey of a little chimney-sweep water-baby through rivers and storms, under sea and over iceberg, is still a classic, wonderful children’s adventure.
Summary by Cori Samuel for Librivox. Music from Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture at musopen.com.
Read this book online or on your Kindle or other e-reader.
Total running time: 7 hours, 6 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
October 12, 1492:? Columbus Discovers America
September 6, 1620:? The Sailing of the Mayflower
November 7, 1637:? Ann Hutchinson’s Trial
September 1, 1664:? The Surrender of New Amsterdam
June 29, 1692:? The Witchcraft Trials at Salem
August 4, 1735:?? The Trial John Peter Zenger
November 1, 1765:?? The Stamp Act Revolt at Williamsburg
April 19, 1775:? Lexington and Concord
July 4, 1776:?? The Declaration of Independence
January 8, 1781:? Mutiny in the Colonial Army
June 25, 1788:? Virginia Ratifies the U.S. Constitution
February 17, 1801:? The Election of Thomas Jefferson
July 11, 1804:? The Burr/ Hamilton Duel
March 1, 1805: The Trial of Samuel Chase
September 1, 1807:?? The Trial of Burr
September 26, 1820: Colonel Johnson eats the Love Apple
August 28, 1830: Tom Thumb Steam Locomotive
March 6, 1836: Defense of The Alamo
September 7, 1853: You are There Women’s Rights Convention
April 12, 1861:?? The Bombardment of Fort Sumter
July 21, 1861:?? The First Battle of Bull Run
March 9, 1862:? The Monitor and The Merrimac
July 3, 1863:? The Battle of Gettysburg
April 9, 1865:? Lee and Grant at Appomattox
April 14, 1865:? The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
April 26, 1865:? The Capture of John Wilkes Booth
May 16, 1868:?? The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
July 21, 1881:? The Surrender of Sitting Bull
April 22, 1889:? The Oklahoma Land Run
April 6, 1909:? Perry’s Dash to the North Pole
Sampler broadcasts about the 20th Century: The Listening Years To see another post on My Audio School which lists all the topics covered in the broadcast The Listening Years, click here.
Read the book “Plays By Anton Chekhov” online or on your Kindle or other e-reader.
Total running time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
Summary: Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. (Summary by Nadine)
Read this book online or on your Kindle or other e-reader.
Total running time:? 3 hours, 30 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
04 – Part I, Olaf’s fight with Havard
08 – Part I, Gyda’s Saucy Message
10 – Part I, King Harald’s Wedding
11 – Part I, King Harald Goes West-Over-Seas
12 – Part II, Homes in Iceland
14 – Part II, Leif and His New Land
15 – Part II, Wineland the Good
Summary: With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England’s many little wars have been so fatal–in proportion to the number of those engaged–as our first expedition to Burma. It was undertaken without any due comprehension of the difficulties to be encountered, from the effects of climate and the deficiency of transport; the power, and still more the obstinacy and arrogance of the court of Ava were altogether underrated; and it was considered that our possession of her ports would assuredly bring the enemy, who had wantonly forced the struggle upon us, to submission. Events, however, proved the completeness of the error. The Burman policy of carrying off every boat on the river, laying waste the whole country, and driving away the inhabitants and the herds, maintained our army as prisoners in Rangoon through the first wet season; and caused the loss of half the white officers and men first sent there. The subsequent campaign was no less fatal and, although large reinforcements had been sent, fifty percent of the whole died; so that less than two thousand fighting men remained in the ranks, when the expedition arrived within a short distance of Ava. Not until the last Burmese army had been scattered did the court of Ava submit to the by no means onerous terms we imposed.(from the preface)
Read this book online or on your Kindle or other e-reader.
Total running time: 8 hours, 47 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
Summary: George MacDonald claimed that he did not write for children, but for the child-like. Some of his longer works are clearly intended for adults, and this fantastic fiction influenced later writers such as G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. But you can find some of his best writing in the stories aimed squarely at children, and these are three of the finest.
The Light Princess. A wicked aunt curses her baby niece so that gravity has no effect on her, and she floats through the air as if it were water.The only way to break the curse is to make the princess cry.
The Giant’s Heart. Two children argue and run away to Giantland. There they find out that one of the Giants steals children from the land of men and eats them, but how can they kill the Giant when he has hidden his heart where no one can find it?
The Golden Key. A boy discovers a Golden Key, but cannot find the lock. He meets a girl, and together they search for the land from where the shadows fall, hoping that the key will allow them in.
(Summary by Clive Catterall for Librivox)
Total running time:? 3 hours, 31 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
Summary: Book I of the “Story of the World” series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. Brief histories of the Ancient Israelites, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Scythians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans are given, concluding with the conquest of the entire Mediterranean by Rome. Important myths and legends that preceded recorded history are also related. Ages 9-18 (Summary from the Baldwin Project)
Total running time: 4 hours, 53 minutes
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles.
# 05 – The Story of the Nile Flood
# 09 – The First Merchant Fleet
# 16 – The Story of the Argonauts
# 18 – The Adventures of Ulysses
# 27 – How Leonidas Kept the Pass
# 33 – Retreat of the Ten Thousand
# 34 – The Story of Romulus and Remus
# 35 – How Horatius Kept the Bridge
# 46 – The Adventures of Hannibal
Powered by WishList Member - Membership Software
