Heusner's OSCAR Podcasts

A digital book report reviewing the novel, Cirque de Freak by Darren Shan.

Digital book report reviewing the novel, The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Our fouth and final Roald Dahl podcast, this last one is Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. This podcast is a great retelling of the novel. Jordan, Maya, and Morgan give us the lowdown on this sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This podcast features music by:

Download "Guitar Beat Track Parts 1 + 2" (mp3)
from "Plowtrax Vol. 1"
by Laszlo Beckett
Hand On The Plow

Here is our third Roald Dahl podcast. It's taken a while to get it up but it finally happened. Our podcasting software was not very cooperative this time for some reason, so there are some aspects of our podcast that are missing. What's important is the information our podcasters wrote about. This literature circle group compare/contrasted characters, gave descriptions of each, and even discussed some problem and solutions. Enjoy!!!

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Download "Back Again" (mp3)
from "Bird and the Open Cage"
by Dave Soho
Parasme Records

Welcome to our second Roald Dahl podcast over the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Our second group decided to focus their attention on the characters of the story. If you have read the novel, these characters are some of the most unique people in any story you'll ever read. It was fun for us to compare the characters between the book and the two movies. We thought it was interesting how the two movies portrayed the characters a little differently but also how close they were to the descriptions in the book.

This podcast features music by:

MIDIval PunditZ
Six Degrees Records

During our Roald Dahl literature circle groups, we read the novel, The Witches. This podcast was created to give students and readers some details about some of the important characters in the novel. Click here to download some graphic organizers to help you compare characters and their traits. This podcast could be used as a prereading activity to get yourself acquinted with the characters from the story.

www.oscarreading.blogspot.com

Here is our first podcasting attempt. Not the best in the world but with practice, we hope to crank out many more podcasts to come. Let us know what you think.
This podcast is mainly for use in classrooms to enrich the learning of other students our own age. We have some printable worksheets that go along with this podcast that students can join in, learn, and interact with our podcasts.
The worksheets can be found at http://oscarreading.blogspot.com