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Click here to see CurrClick’s Ancient Greece and Rome History Scribe pages for illustration and narration (both Elementary and Middle School pages included). These links will take you away from My Audio School.
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.
Click here to learn more about this course or to download a syllabus.
Click here to learn more about Worldwide Classroom.
Click here for Covenant Theological Seminary’s statement of faith.
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
Aesop’s Fables Volume 1
To read this book yourself, click here.
Click here to see downloadable Aesop’s Fables copywork pages from CurrClick for cursive, ball-and-stick printing, or Italic style printing. Click here to see additional CurrClick resources relating to Aesop’s Fables. These links will take you away from My Audio School.
To listen to this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles.
Introduction by G. K. Chesterton
The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs
The Charcoal-Burner and The Fuller
The Spendthrift and the Swallow
The Ass, The Fox, and The Lion
You are there! The Fall of Troy
Click here to see a selection of downloadable resources from CurrClick about Ancient Greece. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
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For this book’s internet archive file, click here.
To read this book yourself, click here.
Click here to view CurrClick resources which could be used with The Odyssey. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
To listen, click play in the box below or click on the chapter links.
Odysseus in the cave of Polyphemus by Jordaens
Odysseus derides Polyphemous by Turner
Odysseus returns Chryseis to her Father by Claude Lorrain
Now you can stream any chapter in the Bible in audio format, thanks to Bible Gateway. Choose to listen in either Real Audio or Flash Player, pick the version, book and chapter you want to hear and click “play audio”. Please note that you must have either Real Audio or Flash Player on your computer to hear the audio.
There are also foreign language audio Bible readings available in Spanish, Farsi, Arabic and Slovak.
Here is a childrens audio drama about Purim, told from a Jewish perspective. Each link opens a coloring page that goes with that portion of the audio. There are a lot of scenes but each one is short.
To see all the scenes at a glance, or to download the entire coloring book in a Zip file, click here.
For these links to work, you’ll need to have Macromedia Shockwave Player. If you don’t have the right player, you’ll see the coloring pages but you will not hear any audio. The Shemay Israel site provides a link if you don’t already have Shockwave.
For this book’s internet archive file on Librivox, click here.
To read this book yourself, click here.
To listen to this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles in this post.
The Sons of William the Conqueror
George Washington and His Hatchet
The Blind Men and the Elephant
Want to hear what Hebrew sounds like? Listen to Genesis 1 read in Hebrew.
Click here to find the entire Old Testament read in Hebrew.
Here is a link to The Lord’s Prayer read in Aramaic.
CurrClick offers several products to teach children to read Hebrew or Greek.
These links will take you away from My Audio School. Kids, please get permission before leaving My Audio School.
Internet archive page on Librivox
To read it yourself, click here.
Click here to see a variety of CurrClick resources which could be used with this book. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
To hear this book, click play in the box below or click on the chapter titles.
00 – Introduction
01 – The Story of a Beautiful Garden
02 – The First Baby in the World and His Brother
03 – The Great Ship that Saved Eight People
04 – The Tower That Never Was Finished
05 – The Story of a Long Journey
06 – How Abram’s Choice Brought Blessing
08 – The Rain of Fire That Fell on a City
09 – The Boy Who Became an Archer
10 – How an Angel’s Voice Saved a Boy’s Life
11 – The Story of a Journey after a Wife
12 – How Jacob Stole His Brother’s Blessing
14 – A Midnight Wrestling Match
15- The Rich Man’s Son Who Was Sold as a Slave
16 – From the Prison to the Palace
17 – How Joseph’s Dream Came True
19 – From the Land of Famine to the Land of Plenty
20 – The Beautiful Baby Who Was Found in a River
21 – The Voice from the Burning Bush
23 – The Night When a Nation Was Born
24 – How the Sea Became Dry Land, and the Sky Rained Bread
25 – The Mountain That Smoked and Words That Were Spoke
26 – How Aaron Made a Golden Calf and What Became of It
27 – The Tent Where God Lived Among His People
28 – How They Worshipped God in the Tabernacle
29 – What Strong Drink Brought to Aaron’s Sons
30 – The Scapegoat in the Wilderness
31 – The Cluster of Grapes From the Land of Canaan
32 – How the Long Journey of the Israelites Came to an End
33 – What a Wise Man Learned from an Ass
34 – How Moses Looked upon the Promised Land
You'll find recipes for historical feasts, posts about dyslexia, my podcast about how to choose books (The Homeschooler's Library) and loads of hands on projects on my school website.
I have posted several podcasts and articles for Christian mothers on my Countercultural Mom blog.
You can also find me writing and podcasting at Mentoring Moments for Christian Women.
