Brad+Reid

These podcasts are designed for a sophomore English class:


 * TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST:**

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/holocaust-voices/id27312025
 * Holocaust Voices**

This podcast is informative when trying to teach the sensitive issues in which the Holocaust revolves. Hearing the voices of those that survived serves as a first-hand testament to the struggles they endured. This podcast will bring reality into a classroom since students will hear personal stories from the actual survivors. This will encourage students to be more sympathetic, and it will allow them to establish personal connections to the event.

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/ushmm.org.1512106347.01512106349
 * Life After the Holocaust**

This podcast identifies an aspect of the Holocaust that is not addressed too often; it focuses on the survivor's lives after they were liberated from the concentration camp. This podcast will give students insight into an aspect of the Holocaust that is rarely discussed in interviews. Survivors tend to focus primarily on their experiences in the concentration camps, or in hiding. Through these interviews, we see how the prisoners have coped with their lives once they were liberated.

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/ushmm.org.1511861451.01511861453
 * Liberation of Nazi Camps: American Stories**

This podcast focuses on the American soldiers that served during World War II. We seldom hear experiences from the alternative side of this event in history. This will give students insight from both sides of the struggle.

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/ushmm.org.1432712564.01432712566
 * Antisemitism & Hatred**

This podcast enhances the definition of antisemitism from many perspectives. This is relevant, because antisemitism is a word used specifically to describe discrimination against Jewish people. As a central theme towards teaching the Holocaust, it's important for students to be fully aware of the subject matter and terminology that follows.

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/ushmm.org.1497722615.01497722617
 * Ballads and Broadsides**

This podcast takes on a much more unique aspect of the Holocaust. Aleksander Kulisiewicz composed a number of songs during the his imprisonment in the concentration camps. A man blessed with a profound memory, he was able to remember these songs after his liberation and dictate them to his nurse to transcribe. These haunting tunes will address the aural aspect of Garner's Multiple Intelligences, and it will allow students to connect concrete sound to the Holocaust background they receive. Addressing the book __Night__, by Elie Wiesel, this music will support several references he makes to the band that plays as they enter and exit each concentration camp.

via: GRAMMAR GIRL
 * GRAMMAR AND WRITING

Journaling** http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/187-gg-journaling/id173429229?i=60628600

This is a great podcast to inform students of the beauty of free-write. Grammar girl works to explain how great writing in a journal can be through a narrative "conversation" with the listener. I would play this for my students near the beginning of the school year to igve them ideas. I would also have my students jot down as many types of writing established in the podcast. Students will have a better opportunity to free-write in a journal, and they will have an easier time accepting their value.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/170-gg-i-swear/id173429229?i=54948302
 * I Swear (Foul Language in Novels)**

If you are teaching in an urban high school, this is a great podcast to play for students to show them how literature can be destroyed when it is censored. I believe that censorship ruins this nation, because it denies us from being who we are and desire to be. For that reason, my students must be exposed to the "real-world" side of writing. By playing this podcast for the students ahead of time, they will see how censorship stifles us and our creativity.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/121-gg-you-affect-me/id173429229?i=31530569
 * Affect vs. Effect**

Students are consistently confusing these two words. This Grammar Girl broadcast helps students to visualize their meaning through imagery and examples. I believe this is one of the better Grammar Girl "grammar explanation", as long as the words are defining formally before-hand. Making several project and lessons out of the examples produced in this podcast will help to better explicate this concept.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/191-gg-and-another-thing/id173429229?i=61141586
 * Writing a Complaint Letter**

I have had my students write complaint letters in the past. This is really good for a humorous, yet effective, way to learn how to writing a formal complaint letter. The students will enjoy Grammar Girl's simplified steps, to effectively write a powerful letter of complaint, without leaving out any necessary details.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/217-gg-poetic-license/id173429229?i=82380769
 * Songwriters as Poets**

Many of my students love to write poetry and music lyrics. Many of them appreciate the value of a powerful song. As a relatable way to allow students to transition into poetry, examining song lyric will allow them to ease in nicely. Grammar Girl helps to make songs appealing to students as poems.


 * TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH HISTORY

Hiroshima** http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/uctv.tv.3636126347

This, and many other Hiroshima-related podcasts, are stellar for creating reality around this event. I have taught about Hiroshima for the past 4 years. I believe that, when coupled with striking visuals and writing, really work to make this event riveting and unforgettable.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id278379846
 * World War II Veterans Respond to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder**

Among other discussions to be had with students about the horrors of war, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is important to address. This is a first-hand account of PTSD as utilized by an example from a veteran of WWII.


 * TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH TEENAGE PROBLEMS**

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ideal.az.1995168807
 * Photo Podcast of the Harmful Effects of Drug Use**

A Powerpoint-type presentation with striking music, visuals and facts that highlight the harmful effects of drug use.

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.open.ac.uk.2272173539
 * How Cannabis Effects Your Body**

In the realm of a research paper on teen issues, this video is good for any student who is studying the effects of marijuana. This may also be helpful as an informative video at the outset of the paper; it may be used to fuel student interest and ideas.

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/teachers.tv.2363173443
 * Gang Violence**

The students highlighted in this video are elicited about their opinions of gang violence. This is a fun, informative video to show perspective when reading books such as __My Bloody Life__, by Reymundo Sanchez, or any others books where gang life is exposed.