With certain students struggling to keep up with the literature in his class, English teacher Andy Carlson decided record audio files for his students.

“What prompted this was the ninth grade students started reading ‘They Caged the Animals at Night,’” Carlson said. “I had a couple students that I wanted to get an audio file for them for this book and you literally cannot find it anywhere.”

After deciding that he could not handle this project alone, Carlson reached out to students interested in reading certain literature aloud to be recorded as an audio file. He said he and his collaborators Ellen George in the Library Media Center and the English department hope that there can be an audiobook option for all written work.

“My goal and Mrs. George’s goal down in the Media Center is to have all of these English department materials recorded and accessible,” Carlson said. “The grand goal is that anything we have that needs to be read can have some sort of an audio file in the library at the school.”

Junior Jason Keller said he thinks it is beneficial to students who need extra help.

“It sounds like it would be a good idea,” Keller said. “Helping kids read is always a positive.”

Some students may even be able to use the hours spent recording these files as volunteer hours for various organizations.

Junior Franciska Hauer said she thinks the ability to use this as an opportunity for hours will generate more student interest.

“I think that that would definitely be a motivator, because the (National Honors Society) deadline is coming up and a lot of people are still missing a lot of hours so any opportunity to get hours would be a motivator,” Hauer said.

Students who would like to get involved in this project can contact Carlson, George or talk to their language arts teacher.