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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by Edith Nesbit

Titania by Henry Meynell Rheam

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Shakespeare Émile_Bayard_-_As_you_like_it

Chapter 1 A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chapter 2 The Tempest

Chapter 3 As you Like it

Chapter 4 The Winter’s Tale

Chapter 5 King Lear

Cordelia by William Frederick Yeames

Chapter 6 Twelfth Night

Chapter 7 Much Ado about Nothing

Chapter 8 Romeo and Juliet

Juliet by Philip_H._Calderon

Chapter 9 Pericles

Chapter 10 Hamlet

Chapter 11 Cymbeline

Chapter 12 Macbeth

"Macbeth seeing the ghost of Banquo" by Théodore Chassériau

Chapter 13 Comedy of Errors

Chapter 14 Merchant of Venice

chapter 15 Timon of Athens

Shakespeare Death_of_Desdemona Othello

Chapter 16 Othello

Chapter 17 The Taming of the Shrew

William Hunt's Claudio and Isabella from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Chapter 18 Measure for Measure

Chapter 19 Two Gentlemen of Verona

Chapter 20 All’s Well that Ends Well

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Puck from Midsummer Night's Dream by Arthur Rackham, public domain image

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illustration of Puck from Midsummer Night's Dream by Arthur Rackham, public domain image

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Ancient and Medieval Church History

Hus, detail, image released to public domain by its author, Taborak

Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, has made several classes available for free online through their Worldwide Classroom.

Although Ancient and Medieval Church History is a college-level course, I believe it would be appropriate for a high school student studying this topic.

In order to listen to these free classes, you’ll need to register with Worldwide Classroom. After registering, you’ll be able to listen to all of these sessions on Mp3, as well as download written transcripts and study guides for each lecture.

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Click here to access the Free Registration page, a necessary step to listening to all that Worldwide Classroom has to offer.

Augustine and the Donatists

Here is a course description and a list of the topics covered in this course.
Course Description (taken from the Worldwide Classroom site):
A study of Christianity from the Early Church to the dawn of the Reformation, with source material readings. This course places an emphasis on the application of church history to life and ministry and helps the student to understand the development of Christian thought and the formulation of doctrine as part of God’s overall pattern of history. This course is taught by David Calhoun.

Lesson 1: The Study of Church History

Lesson 2: The Growth of the Christian Church

Lesson 3: The Persecutions

Lesson 4: The Apologists

Lesson 5: Orthodoxy and Heresy

Lesson 6: Canon, Creed, and Bishops

Lesson 7: The Early Church Fathers

Lesson 8: The People of the Early Church

Lesson 9: The Church in the Fourth Century

Lesson 10: The Beginnings of Monasticism

Lesson 11: Donatism

Lesson 12: The Council of Nicea

Lesson 13: Cappadocians and Constantinople

Lesson 14: Ambrose, Jerome, and Chrysostom

Lesson 15: Augustine’s Confessions

Lesson 16: Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy

Lesson 17: Augustine’s Theology of History

Lesson 18: The Council of Chalcedon

Lesson 19: The Early Middle Ages

Lesson 20: Medieval Missions

Lesson 21: The Christianization of Great Britain

Lesson 22: Learning and Theology

Lesson 23: Eastern Orthodoxy

Lesson 24: The Late Middle Ages

Lesson 25: Medieval Monasticism

Lesson 26: Crusades or Missions?

Lesson 27: The Waldensians

Lesson 28: Scholastic Theology

Lesson 29: Thomas Aquinas

Lesson 30: The Sacramental System

Lesson 31: Church and State

Lesson 32: Wycliffe and Hus

Lesson 33: Reform in Italy

Lesson 34: Mysticism and the Modern Devotion

Lesson 35: The Waning of the Middle Ages

Appendix A: Catholic World Missions

Appendix B: The Spread of the Western Church

Appendix C: The Spread of the Eastern Church

Appendix D: The 100 Most Important Dates in Church History

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The Explorations of Pere Marquette

Pere Marquette and the Indians by Wilhelm Lamprecht, public domain image

This 14 minute audio drama, presented by The Reading Well, is based on the Landmark book of the same name, written by Jim Kjelgaard.

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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

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The Legend of Squanto: Focus on the Family Radio Theater broadcast

Squanto teaching

Click here to see downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick about Squanto. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

To listen to the radio broadcast of  Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part one, click here.

To listen to the radio broadcast of Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part two, click here.

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Sermons about Reformers

Luther's room, Wartburg

This podcast from Columbia, South Carolina First Presbyterian Church’s Thornwell Lecture Series  includes sermons about The Life of John Calvin (from Dr. Mark Ross), William Tyndale (Rev. Iain Murray) and Martin Luther (Rev. Dr. John R. de Witt).

Clicking this link will take you to the church’s online media page, where you’ll see an audio player. Scan through the archives to find these messages.

John Calvin

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Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin

Diogenes by John William Waterhouse

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King Alfred (The Great)

King Alfred and the Cakes

King Alfred and the Beggar

King Canute on the Seashore

The Sons of William the Conqueror

The White Ship

King John and the Abbott

Robin Hood and Little John by Louis Rhead, 1912

A Story of Robin Hood

Bruce and the Spider

The Black Douglas

Three Men of Gotham

Other Wise Men of Gotham

The Miller of the Dee

Sir Philip Sidney

Ungrateful Soldier

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh

Pocahontas

Pocahontas Marriage of Pocahontas

George Washington and His Hatchet

Grace Darling

The Story of William Tell

Arnold Winkelried

The Bell of Atri

Napoleon Bonaparte Crossing the Alps by Delaroche

How Napoleon Crossed the Alps

The Story of Cincinnatus

The Story of Regulus

Cornelia’s Jewels

Androclus and the Lion

Horatius at the Bridge

Divico und Caesar

Julius Caesar

The Sword of Damocles

Damon and Pythias

A Laconic Answer

The Ungrateful Guest

The Taming of Bucephalus

Alexander and Bucephalus

Diogenes the Wise Man

The Brave Three Hundred

Socrates and His House

The King and His Hawk

Doctor Goldsmith

The Kingdoms

The Barmecide Feast

The Endless Tale

The Blind Men and the Elephant

Maximilian and the Goose Boy

The Inchcape Rock

Richard Wittington and his Cat

Whittington and His Cat

Casabianca

Antonio Canova

Picciola

Mignon

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Leonardo Da Vinci’s inventions

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Discoverers and Explorers by Edward R. Shaw

Christopher Columbus First landing on the shores of the new

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Santa Maria, maquette of Christopher Columbus' ship at the Mercatormuseum in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, photo by Donderwolk, licensed under GNU Free Documentation license

00 – Preface

01 – Beliefs as to the World Four Hundred Years Ago

02 – Marco Polo

03 – Columbus

04 – Vasco Da Gama

Sébastien Cabot

Sébastien Cabot

05 – John and Sebastian Cabot’s Voyages

06 – Amerigo Vespucci

07 – Ponce De Leon

08 – Balboa

09 – Magellan

Arrival of Cortes in Veracruz and the reception by Moctezuma's Ambassadors

Arrival of Cortes in Veracruz and the reception by Moctezuma's Ambassadors

10 – Hernando Cortes

11 – Francisco Pizarro

12 – Ferdinand De Soto

Origin of the Amazon River at Nevado Mismi, marked only by a wooden cross.

Origin of the Amazon River at Nevado Mismi, marked only by a wooden cross.

13 – The Great River Amazon and El Dorado

14 – Verrazzano (often spelled Verrazano)

15 – The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake

16 – Henry Hudson

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