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This recording of The Great Gatsby?was made for educational purposes to assist ESL learners.?Downloadable files are NOT available of this material, it is streaming only. Click on the link for the chapter you want to stream and the text will also appear, allowing you to follow along in the text while you listen.
The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller which premiered in 1953. It famously used the Salem Witch Trials to offer a commentary on McCarthyite America. This production stars Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley, Jr., Joe Spano, and Michael York, among others. You can stream the audio here.
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Total running time: 15 hours
Summary from Wikimedia: The Birth Mark is a romantic short story which examines obsession with human perfection.
Summary: The title is from the Greek thanatos (“death”) and the suffix -opsis (literally, “sight”); it has often been translated as “Meditation upon Death”.
Due to the unusual quality of the verse and Bryant’s age when the poem was first published in 1817 by the North American Review, Richard Henry Dana, Sr., then associate editor at the Review, initially doubted its authenticity, saying to another editor, “No one, on this side of the Atlantic, is capable of writing such verses.”
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Run time: 4 hours, 3 minutes
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Total running time: 11 hours, 34 minutes
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Edith Wharton’s 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character’s fraught relationships with his “sickly, cantankerous” wife Zeena and his young, beautiful cousin Mattie Silver. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett for Librivox)
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Total running time: 3 hours, 13 minutes
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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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.
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Chapter 01
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
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To listen to The Declaration of Independence, as read by Bill Barker, who interprets Thomas Jefferson for Colonial Williamsburg, go to Monticello Podcasts. You’ll need to page most of the way down the page, to the podcast titled Jefferson’s Words: Two Declarations.
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To see a video of the reading of the Declaration of Independence from Colonial Williamsburg, go to the Colonial Williamsburg Video page. This video is titled We Hold These Truths. You’ll need to page down to find it. This video is archived on June 29, 2009.
For more excellent audio and video podcasts from Colonial Williamsburg, go to History.org.
Click here to view downloadable curriculum from CurrClick relating to Ben Franklin.
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To look at Benjamin Franklin’s book Poor Richard’s Almanac, click here. Use the arrows to turn the pages of the book.
01-Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston
02-Beginning Life as a Printer
05-Early Friends in Philadelphia
07-Beginning Business in Philadelphia
08-Business Success and First Public Service
09-Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
10-Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities
15-Quarrels with the Proprietary
17-Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier
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