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In Flanders Field by John McCrae
The Sinking of the Titanic and Other Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor
CBS Football Broadcast War Bulletin
FDR’s Pearl Harbor address
CBS John Charles Daly Reports Pearl Harbor Attack
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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!
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Babe Ruth: Farewell to Baseball
Babe Ruth: Farewell to Baseball radio broadcast
Click here to see some downloadable resources from CurrClick which could be used in a unit study of baseball. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
Ernest Shackleton, radio broadcast
Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate: “Tear Down This Wall!”
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selected O. Henry stories
Tiananmen Square
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June 4, 1989
Video of the lone protester in Tiananmen Square, who has become a symbol of courage and the desire for freedom.
Eric Liddell
The Torchlighters animated children’s series about Christian Heroes is very well done. Here is a preview:
Netflix subscribers can stream Chariots of Fire,the Academy Award winning movie about Eric Liddell, from their home computer. Here is the original trailer:
Parents, please use caution with You Tube videos. These videos may display a pop-up ad.
First Atomic Bomb Attack on Hiroshima and Japanese Surrender
Underwater Atomic Bomb Test at Bikini Atoll
Each of these broadcasts lasts from a few seconds to a few minutes, but taken together they give a good picture of the events which ended World War 2 and brought about the surrender of Japan.
Atomic Bomb Destroys Hiroshima
BBC Report on Hiroshima Bombing
CBS’ Edward Morrow reports Russia Declares War on Japan
President Truman threatens Japan with further atomic attacks
August 12, 1945 CBS World News Today
False Initial Report of Japanese Surrender
Secretary Forrestal on Japanese Surrender
CBS Reports Truman accepts Japanese Surrender
CBS Robert Trout reports end of the war
Hiro Hito announces Japanese Surrender (in Japanese)
VJ Day report from White House
King George VI addresses the Empire
General MacArthur on Victory Over Japan
Japanese Surrender Ceremony Onboard USS Missouri
This broadcast is longer than the others (perhaps about 45 minutes long), but may be of interest to older students.
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg Biography in Sound
Carl Sandburg: Selected poems
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
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.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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02 – The Council with the Munchkins
03 – How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
04 – The Road Through the Forest
05 – The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
07 – The Journey to the Great Oz
09 – The Queen of the Field Mice
10 – The Guardian of the Gates
12 – The Search for the Wicked Witch
15 – The Discovery of Oz the Terrible
16 – The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
17 – How the Balloon Was Launched
19 – Attacked by the Fighting Trees
21 – The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts
22 – The Country of the Quadlings
Langston Hughes
Link for the e-text of Question (this link will take you away from My Audio School)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, by Langston Hughes
link to E-text of The Negro Speaks of Rivers (this link will take you away from My Audio School)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Running time: 5 hours, 4 minutes
Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used while reading this book. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
This unabridged version of Peter Pan is darker than the well-known Disney version, and is more appropriate for older children than younger ones.
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The FlightThe Island Come True
Hindenburg disaster
This is a new sound composite, produced by C. E. Price, of news footage of the Hindenburg explosion and Herb Morrison’s reporting of the event.
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
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Click here to view CurrClick literature units which could be used with Pollyanna.
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Total running time: 6 hours, 55 minutes
Chapter 2 The Coming of Tom and Nancy
Chapter 3 The Coming of Pollyanna
Chapter 4 The Little Attic Room
Chapter 7 Pollyanna and Punishments
Chapter 8 Pollyanna Pays a Visit
Chapter 9 Which Tells of the Man
Chapter 10 Surprise for Mrs. Snow
Chapter 12 Before the Ladies’ Aid
Chapter 14 Just a Matter of Jelly
Chapter 16 A Red Rose and a Lace Shawl
Chapter 19 Which is Somewhat Surprising
Chapter 20 Which is More Surprising
Chapter 21 A Question is Answered
Chapter 22 Sermons and Woodboxes
Chapter 28 The Game and its Players
Chapter 29 Through an Open Window
Selected Poems by Robert Frost
Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick for studying poetry. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
Clicking the following links will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School. This excellent site, Robert Frost Out Loud, has several recordings of Frost poems recited by the poet himself, many more read by a Frost enthusiast, and text for each included poem.
Click here to listen to Robert Frost reading his own poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
Robert Frost reads his poem The Road Not Taken
You can hear more audio recordings of Robert Frost poetry at Robert Frost Out Loud. Poems with a blue arrow beside the title are recorded in the poet’s own voice. To listen, click on the poem titles.
Click here to read the e-text for the following poems.
A Boy’s Will is Frost’s first full volume of poetry. E-text for A Boy’s Will (you must have Adobe Reader to open this e-text).
Contents:
Part I
1. Into My Own
2. Ghost House
3. My November Guest
4. Love and a Question
5. A Late Walk
6. Stars
7. Storm Fear
8. Wind and Window Flower
9. To the Thawing Wind
10. A Prayer in Spring
11. Flower-gathering
12. Rose Pogonias
13. Asking for Roses
14. Waiting—Afield at Dusk
15. In a Vale
16. A Dream Pang
17. In Neglect
18. The Vantage Point
19. Mowing
20. Going for Water
Part II
21. Revelation
22. The Trial by Existence
23. In Equal Sacrifice
24. The Tuft of Flowers
25. Spoils of the Dead
26. Pan with Us
27. The Demiurge’s Laugh
Part III
28. Now Close the Windows
29. A Line-storm Song
30. October
31. My Butterfly
32. Reluctance
Robert Frost: Essential American Poets
Robert Frost: Essential American Poets is a podcast from The Poetry Foundation gives brief biographical information about Robert Frost, along with archival recordings of Frost reading his own poetry, recorded at the Library of Congress in 1959.
Admiral Peary Discovers the North Pole
You are there! Peary’s dash to the North Pole
This broadcast was recorded from a record album. There are a few skips, where the record repeats, but it only lasts a few moments.
Cavalcade of America: Admiral Peary Discovers the North Pole
Click here to see a downloadable lapbook project pack from CurrClick about Explorers of the World. This link will take you away from My Audio School.