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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

Fall of the Berlin wall, 1989, published under GNU Free Documentation License by copyright holder Lear 21

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ABC News Broadcast of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Here is another video clip, this time of Regan at the Brandenburg Gate, pleading with Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall!”

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Click here to see a Cold War Era project pack for 7th grade and above from CurrClick. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

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Ronald Reagan speaking about Assassination Attempt

Ronald Reagan speaks with Larry King about the assassination attempt on his life, March 30, 1981.

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Panama Canal video

Here is an interesting time-lapse video showing the journey of a cruise ship through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. In less than 2 minutes you’ll get a good understanding of the length of the canal and how a ship moves through the locks.

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Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used while studying the Panama Canal. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

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John F. Kennedy’s Moon speech

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In Flanders Field by John McCrae

Lest we  forget, photo by hobvias sudoneighm, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 license

Read this poem and others by John McCrae

In Flanders Field by John McCrae

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The Sinking of the Titanic and Other Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall

Titanic sinking by Willy Stoewer

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To view a selection of downloadable resources from CurrClick which could be used in a study of the Titanic, click here.

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To listen, click play in the box or click on the chapter links.

Titanic at the docks

Chapter 1

Chapters 2 and 3

Chapters 4 and 5

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Chapter 6

Chapter 7


Chapters 8 and 9


Chapter 10

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Chapter 11

Chapter 12 part 1

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Chapter 12 part 2

Chapters 13 and 14

Chapters 15, 16 and 17

Titanic iceberg

Titanic iceberg

Chapters 18 and 19

Chapter 20

Chapters 21 and 22

Chapters 23 and 24

Titanic lifeboat with survivors

Titanic lifeboat with survivors


Chapters 26 and 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Titanic bow seen from MIR I submersible, on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

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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:

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Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

Lady at the Tea Table by Mary Cassat

Lady at the Tea Table by Mary Cassatt

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Click here to see CurrClick downloadable curriculum resources which could be used with Pollyanna. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

Click here to view CurrClick literature units which could be used with Pollyanna.

To hear this book, click play in the box below, or click on the chapter titles.

Total running time: 6 hours, 55 minutes

Renoir Girl with Flowers

Chapter 1  Miss Polly

Chapter 2  The Coming of Tom and Nancy

Chapter 3  The Coming of Pollyanna

PA Balkonzimmer by Adolph von Menzel, The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by the Yorck project.  The compilation copyright is held by the Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation license.

Balcony Room by Adolph von Menzel

Chapter 4  The Little Attic Room

Chapter 5  The Game

Chapter 6  A Question of Duty

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 11  Introducing Jimmy

Ladies' Aid

Ladies' Aid

Chapter 12  Before the Ladies’ Aid

Chapter 13  In Pendleton Woods

Chapter 14  Just a Matter of Jelly

Chapter 15  Dr. Chilton

Red Rose

Chapter 16  A Red Rose and a Lace Shawl

Chapter 17  “Just like a book”

Chapter 18  Prisms

Chapter 19  Which is Somewhat Surprising

Chapter 20  Which is More Surprising

Chapter 21  A Question is Answered

Chapter 22  Sermons and Woodboxes

1913 automobile

1913 automobile

Chapter 23  An Accident

Chapter 24  John Pendleton

Chapter 25  A Waiting Game

Chapter 26  A Door Ajar

Chapter 27  Two Visits

Chapter 28  The Game and its Players

PA Jan Vermeer, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window by Jan Vermeer

Chapter 29  Through an Open Window

Chapter 30  Jimmy Takes the Helm

Chapter 31  A New Uncle

Chapter 32  Which is a Letter from Pollyanna

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Admiral Peary Discovers the North Pole

Peary Sledge Party and Flags at the Pole

Peary Sledge Party and Flags at the 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.

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