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Queue CD-ROM Titles on LITERATURE
QCD2007M BEST LITERATURE WORKBOOK EVER! $75.00
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COMPILATION: Non-multimedia: no sound or graphics. Save over
$1,400 off the price of separately purchased software. The CD
includes interactive tutorials with questions that reinforce
comprehension of passages, and critical reading and evaluative
thinking skills. The tutorials contain material from classic
short stories, fables, and myths; and excerpts from American and
English literature. The program offers over 1,000 reproducible
worksheets on classic literature with comprehension, vocabulary,
and discussion questions. The sets contain background
information, educational objectives, answer key, and vocabulary
list. Lab Pack (5) $285.00 Network $950.00
QCD2007B BEST LITERATURE WORKBOOK EVER! $75.00
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COMPILATION: Non-multimedia: no sound or graphics. An
incomparable collection of life skills materialÑfor work and
career, home and familyÑin one low-price bundle saves over
$4,100 off individual titles. Titles include: Life Skills
English, Needing Reading, You and Your Money, You and the Law,
Home and Family, Vocabulary for the World of Work, Reading
Comprehension for Employment, Survival Reading, Life Skills
Reading I & II, Work and Career, Survival Math, Business
Mathematics, and much more. Lab Pack (5) $250.00 Network $375.00
QCD2043M BEST OF HERMAN MELVILLE $39.95
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Queue's MegaBooks™ on CD-ROM combine full texts of classic
literary works with advanced capabilities for searching text.
With MegaBooks™ reading is never a passive experience. This
CD-ROM includes the complete text for Moby Dick, Billy Budd,
Typee, and Benito Cerino; and multimedia presentations for Moby
Dick and exercises for Billy Budd. Special Macintosh features:
• on selected words to see notes and/or definitions •
or bold selections in the text • pages with "paper
clips" •"dog-ear" pages • lines in the
margin to mark passages • notes in the margin or in a
separate notebook • between regular text and large print
• for occurrences of a word or phrase and save results Lab
Pack (5) $119.85 Network $199.75
QCD2037M BEST OF MARK TWAIN $39.95
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Includes complete text of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Prince and
the Pauper, and three short stories. The Prince and the Pauper
and the short stories include comprehension and vocabulary
exercises. Lab Pack (5) $119.85 Network $199.75
QCD2038M BEST OF WASHINGTON IRVING $39.95
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Complete text of Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
Spectre Bridegroom, and other stories. Includes two multimedia
presentations and unabridged narration for Rip Van Winkle and The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, as well as exercises for The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow. Lab Pack (5) $119.85 Network $199.75
WCD0003M FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER $49.95
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Eerie sound effects, a haunting musical score, dramatic
narration, subtle animation, and rich, brooding graphics
illustrate the dark recesses of Poe's timeless tale. Included is
an analysis and biography of Poe; text links to a narrated
glossary; over 2000 frames of animation; analysis, overview of
the genre, and biography; and a 3D dungeon. Lab Pack (5) $149.85
"É Simply the best piece of literature we have seen to date
adapted to the CD-ROM medium successfully. Poe's difficult
passages and dark gothic prose actually is presented in a format
accessible to anyone wishing to put the time in and explore the
CD-ROM completely. There is an excellent glossary, page by page
analysis of the story and a biography on the author himself É
The music and graphics are very good. Overall, a very good value
for anyone interested in Poe's Gothic storytelling style or
anyone interested in literature." CD-ROM REPORTER
March/April, 1995
QCD2051M FIRE & ICE: LONDON'S TALES OF THE YUKON $49.95
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Jack London's best tales are offered on this CD-ROM, which
includes multimedia versions of White Fang, To Build a Fire, The
White Silence, The Wisdom of the Trail, The Story of Keesh, The
Law of Life, To the Man on the Trail, and Daughter of the Aurora.
Also included are an electronically annotated version of The Call
of the Wild, with exercises, and a narrated version of The Sea
Wolf. All stories are also available as unabridged electronic
texts. Tutorial software for Make Westing and The Man with the
Gash provides comprehension questions and exercises that follow
the reading. Another tutorial provides a Review of American
Literature. In addition, the CD-ROM includes a creative clip art
program that enables users to write, illustrate, and print their
own stories, posters, and more based on story characters! Lab
Pack (5) $149.8
WCD0002M HEROIC TALES: THESEUS $49.95
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Heroic Tales presents the myth of Theseus and related sagas,
narrated and accompanied by a dramatic musical score. A huge
on-line glossary, reference screens, maps, genealogical charts,
and portraits of the gods may be accessed by clicking on hundreds
of hot words. Ages 10 to adult. "What impresses meÉis the
incredible amount of information presented in such an attractive
format. É to click out of the story to make historical or
familial connections is a plus; especially for such a complicated
topic. I'm happy to see top-quality secondary humanities software
becoming availableÉ" Educational Technology Center College
of Education University of South Carolina
IBL2003MW INVESTIGATING AMERICAN LITERATURE $185.00
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A Complete Survey of American Literature: Designed for students
in Grades 9-12, this program will make reading literature
fascinating and fun for everyone. Queue has organized the vast
multitude of Internet-based learning resources for appreciating
literature and improving reading comprehension into a wonderful
teaching resource. This CD-ROM is chock-full of grade-appropriate
Internet and worksheet based student assignments in reading and
writing. Taking a whole language, constructivist approach to
learning, the CD-ROM integrates literature and cultural history
with a wide variety of options for every teacher and every
approach at each juncture. There is enough content here for
several semesters of work. • American Literature and Culture
I: Colonial and Revolutionary Period • American Literature
and Culture II: 1800-1870: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
• American Literature and Culture III: 1870-1920: Realism
and Naturalism • American Literature and Culture IV:
1920-1945: The Jazz Age, The Depression and World War II •
American Literature and Culture V: 1945- present: The Fifties.
The Sixties. The Beats. The Hippies • American Literature
and Culture VI: African-American Literature BL2003MWNT Network
QCD2050M POE'S TALES OF TERROR $49.95
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NewMedia's Highest Rating: "AMAZING!" This spectacular
CD-ROM includes multimedia versions of Poe's most chilling
stories: The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death,
The Fall of the House of Usher, and Descent into the Maelstrom.
Also included are unabridged narrations for The Cask of
Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House
of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Tell-Tale Heart. The
unabridged electronic text includes these stories, plus several
additional short stories. Finally, two richly illustrated
multimedia presentations describe Poe's life and works. A
creative clip art program allows users to write, illustrate, and
print their own stories, posters, and coloring books based on the
stories' characters. Lab Pack (5) $149.85 Network $249.75
QCD2074M PRINCE AND THE PAUPER $49.95
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Students will be helped along this classic story with unabridged
narration of the entire text and hundreds of full-color
illustrations, which come alive when clicked upon. Illustrations
and narrations also tell an abridged version for slower or
younger readers. Definitions, additional readings, exercises, and
complete text supplement the multimedia presentation. Lab Pack
(5) $149.85 Network $249.75
QCD2075M TREASURE ISLAND $49.95
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Join the adventurous Jim Hawkins and the roguish Long John Silver
in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, included here in its
entirety! Students will improve reading skills, while they are
helped along with complete, unabridged narration of the entire
text and hundreds of gorgeous full-color illustrations, each of
which comes alive with its own narration when clicked upon. For
younger or slower readers, the illustrations and related
narrations tell the entire story in an abridged, highly readable
form. Definitions, additional readings, exercises, and complete
textÑreadily available for excerpting, transferring to word
processing files, and printing outÑall supplement the multimedia
presentation. Lab Pack (5) $149.85 Network $249.75
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