Audio Books For High School

Plot Overview – Audio Books For High School
Jethro Creighton, the protagonist, is young and idealistic when the Civil War begins. At first he thinks the war will be neat, full of marching soldiers and demonstrative patriotism. He learns the realities of war soon enough as he watches his three brothers, his cousin, and his teacher go off to fight. One of his brothers, Bill, chooses to fight for the South in a decision that plagues him for a long time. Jethro and his family follow the progress of the war through the newspapers, but it is hard to tell exactly what is happening. Each day the paper is full of praise or criticism for one of the Union generals, and Jethro has trouble sorting out what is actually going on.
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Absalom, Absalom!

Summary
In 1833, a wild, imposing man named Thomas Sutpen comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, with a group of slaves and a French architect in tow. He buys a hundred square miles of land from an Indian tribe, raises a manor house, plants cotton, and marries the daughter of a local merchant, and within a few years is entrenched among the local aristocracy. Sutpen has a son and a daughter, Henry and Judith, who grow up in a life of uncultivated ease in the northern Mississippi countryside.
Henry goes to college at the University of Mississippi in 1859, and meets a sophisticated fellow student named Charles Bon, whom he befriends and brings home for Christmas. Charles meets Judith, and over time, an engagement between them is assumed. But Sutpen realizes that Bon is actually his own son–Henry and Judith’s half-brother–from a previous marriage which he abandoned when he discovered that his wife had negro blood.
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Key of Knowledge in Audio Book Format

What happens when the very gods depend on mortals for help? That’s what three very different young women find out when they are invited to Warrior’s Peak.

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Audio Book Version of Betty Smith’s Novel

Betty Smith, Author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

In fact, Smith had an interest in writing about Brooklyn apart from the book. She wrote commentary in the New York Times Magazine which included an essay “Why Brooklyn is that Way.” She became Brooklyn’s unofficial advocate, explaining that Brooklyn was like a small town that New Yorkers were trying to reject.

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Audio Book Version of Olive Ann Burns Novel

Of her career and upbringing, Burns once said, “It has been said that growing up in the South and becoming a writer is like spending your life riding in a wagon, seated in a chair that is always facing backwards. I don’t face life looking backwards, but I have written about past times and past people.”

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About Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

The most influential writer in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a -successful middle-class glove-maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582 he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Around 1590 he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. Public and critical success quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and part-owner of the Globe Theate.
Author of King Lear…
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Spain Has More Reason To Celebrate

Two weeks ago, the Spanish soccer team excelled at Euro 2008 beating Germany in the final, and on the same day a young Spaniard by the name of Pablo Larazabal excelled at golf, winning the French Open in style.
However, I think last Sunday’s performance by 22 year old Mallorca native Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon surpassed his compatriots with an achievement that graces the tennis hall of fame. In front of an enthralled crowd, Nadal and Federer fought a duel for almost 5 hours in what was for me the best tennis I have ever seen before Nadal emerged victorious. Interviewed afterwards, Nadal said that he was very happy.
To help his English vocabulary, we have a learn English for Spanish speakers series of audio books. Hope he pays us a visit!

Interesting Question About Audiobooks

Here’s an interesting question I came across which was asked by a mother whose daughter has some reading problems. The source is The Desert Sun, California.
Question: Reading is a very hard task for my 6th grade daughter and her teacher suggested that I get books on tape for her to listen to this summer. My husband believes books on tape are not the same as reading and they are considered “cheating.” I’m confused, are books on tape really a form of cheating?
Answer: Although audiobooks can never take the place of reading aloud, many educators agree that audio books are considered wonderful tools for children for several reasons. Audio books are successful in providing struggling readers an opportunity to be exposed to literature they otherwise would not have been able to read. Reading is also about comprehending a story and audiobooks can help children develop strong listening and critical thinking skills.

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Spain Had A Great Weekend

As a sports fan of both golf and soccer I was delighted to see Spain doing so well last weekend. I was very impressed with Pablo Larazabal and the courage he showed over the last 4 tough holes of the French Open. Monty’s comments the evening before were in my opinion designed to make him feel the pressure, but thankfully Pablo didn’t falter and won the tournament in style.
And to round off a great day for Spaniards, their national soccer team beat Germany in the final of Euro 2008 thanks to a fine goal from Fernando Torres.
Monty, and Germany will have to try again some other day.
This would be a good time to learn Spanish congratulatory terms.

Audio Books, How to Record Them

Here’s an interesting post I spotted for anyone living near Lakewood, near Denver, Colorado.
This extract is from denver.yourhub.com

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