Heirloom Audio: For the Temple audio theater (A REVIEW)

I am a big fan of audio books in our homeschool. I am always on the look out for something new to listen to. Usually it's just a fiction book that is recommended for my kids' ages. But sometimes we get to try out audio books that are more than just an audio book. That is the case with this particular listening adventure, it is an audio theater with characters voices played by different people, sound effects, music, and a lot of emotion. It's like an audio book coming to life!

Heirloom Audio is the creator of this G.A. Henty Adventure: For the Temple. We have enjoyed our past audio dramas from Heirloom Audio, and this one was just as great.

We received two audio CD's with about 2.5 hours of listening time. They came in this nice fold out CD case. This was nice in that we could easily take this in the car, and listen all together. Our car has amazing speakers, so it feels almost like we are in a theater watching a movie, without the big screen so I can drive and participate too. The sound is pretty amazing in these stories, and it's so easy to get immersed in the story.

The storyline:

This is a story from a time in history of the Jewish-Roman wars. It has a lot of battling, a bit of a love story, and a lot of twists and turns.

Young Jews John and Mary are to be married someday. They go out on an unexpected boat ride, and are rescued by a man who upon meeting them decides to recruit John in his army. John says yes, to help protect the Temple. He goes off to fight many battles, becoming a very big name among all of the people (Jews and Romans). He makes friends with a Roman warrior through his kind actions. This friendship proves to be his key to getting back to his family after the wars are over. I won't say what happens to the temple, but he knows he fought his best for something he loves, and he puts down his weapons of war for good.

For the Temple study guide

I (we) listened to this story without knowing much about the actual history part of the story, so it was interesting to learn all these new things as we went along. One thing that really helped (besides a little research on the computer at the end) us along was a study guide that we received through email. It has questions for listening well, digging deeper, and vocabulary. We mostly used the listening well questions, and the vocabulary. The vocabulary is rich in this story with some less commonly used words for our day, so it was fun to explore those words more. With the pictures and short explanations of the history behind some of the parts of the story the study guide proves to be helpful when listening to a complex story like this one with all the different battles and keeping track of the people as well. It really helps to break the story down and absorb more of the information, so it can be a great way to use this for history time as well. The study guide was a great resource, and we used it when we had more time to sit and talk after each track.

The Review Crew always has a great time listening to these stories. You can click on the image below to see what others had to say about this Christian audio drama!