Audio Essays
created by Jones College Prep in Chicago
As part of The Sound of the Page Project in AP English Language with Ray Salazar, students created audio essays to increase their understanding of rhetoric and develop their critical thinking skills as they blended writing and sound to propose assertions or present experiences.
The voice recorders were made possible through the Oppenheimer Foundation and the Friends of Jones.
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Debbie Gonzalez's Audio Essay
Posted on 6/5/2009 1:48 PM by Debbie Gonzalez
Hearing the vivid sounds of salsa and merengue provoked even the holiest parts of me.
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Mercedes Jones's Audio Essay
Posted on 6/5/2009 1:46 PM by Mercedes Jones
When I thought of my classmates, some of whom where my friends, I did not think things like, “My friends are so smart . . .” My thoughts were more like, “Why don’t they ever do their homework?”
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Fabian Del Real's Audio Essay
Posted on 6/5/2009 1:24 PM by Fabian Del Real
On the few occasions I would go with my friends to a school game, I would envy the players and all the energy they would get from the crowd.
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Ashley Bell's Audio Essay
Posted on 6/4/2009 2:46 PM by Ashley Bell
"So coming to Jones in my third year was the perfect time, when I was lost and ready for a change—not of what I was in the world but what I saw in the world."
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Kendall Galloway's Audio Essay
Posted on 6/4/2009 2:34 PM by Kendall Galloway
She sustains her family on food stamps and, with her house destroyed and no job or savings, has lost all hope of recreating the life once lived before the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
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Shadae Gatlin's Audio Essay
Posted on 6/4/2009 2:29 PM by Shadae Gatlin
I hear the sound of policeman rapping on the door with an errant, unrepentant son in tow and that of my mother’s step resounding on carpeted floor as she rises to answer the summons.
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Rosie Glaser's Audio Essay
Posted on 6/4/2009 2:18 PM by Rosie Glaser
"Welcome to Israel," I thought to myself as our tour guide informed us that a bomb had just been detonated not too far from where we were standing.
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Carolina Ibarra's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 6:31 PM by Carolina Ibarra
As my hand moves freely across the board, I release my tension, my stress, and even lose myself through the pencil, allowing it to dance across the canvas as if it were a stage.
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Oscar Jimenez's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 6:21 PM by Oscar Jimenez
And to have the chance to travel to different worlds or times would be a one that I would not give up.
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Marlene Juarez's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 6:19 PM by Marlene Juarez
Parents in today’s society are many times under informed of the activities their teenagers may be taking part in, a lack of communication starts to intervene between the adult and the adolescent and the works begin.
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Maggie Lamas's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 6:14 PM by Maggie Lamas
Not only had I accepted stress as a part of human nature, but I had acquired it as a tool of human ability.
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Julie Leon's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 6:11 PM by Julie Leon
Music, my one true passion, pushed aside for a life of economic security and stability.
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Carmen Li's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 6:08 PM by Carmen Li
Throughout this whole crisis of trying to overcome what has happened and continues to happen, most people have lost the hope they had towards their country.
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Olivia Medrano's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 6:04 PM by Olivia Medrano
After zooming in and out of my subject, we see that she is a person who balances ambition with expectations and criticism with resilience.
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Betsy Montgomery's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 5:55 PM by Betsy Montgomery
Though she was not invincible, Benazir Bhutto’s tremendous amount of integrity and perseverance made her one of the most heroic and influential people ever to have lived.
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Sarai Redmond's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 5:47 PM by Sarai Redmond
Lately, I have been wrestling with what is real beauty and what is achieved beauty.
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Denisse Rodriguez's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 5:43 PM by Denisse Rodriguez
Those who were fortunate enough to have the means to evacuate were able to do so; but those without means were left behind to suffer through the storm.
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Denise Ruiz's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 5:38 PM by Denise Ruiz
Child soldiers are just like all other children, and no child should be forced to become a soldier.
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Aaron Steinbrecher's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 5:34 PM by Aaron Steinbrecher
My experience with religion was scattered; there was no defining moment when I saw exactly where I fit in.
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Fanny Tan's Audio Essay
Posted on 5/12/2009 5:33 PM by Fanny Tan
Who knew that a Kinetic Blue Acura TL (Type S) could be the solution to losing independence?
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