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Humanities Software Evaluation

Best Literature Workbook Ever! (The)

Copyright Date
1992
Publisher
Queue
Description
Interactive tutorials with questions to test and reinforce comprehension of reading passages as well as critical reading and evaluative thinking skills. Includes short stories, American Literature and English Literature. Reproduction rights for classroom use are included. This collection of educational software programs is organized into Fables, Poems, & Myths; Reading & Interpreting Lit.; Review of American Lit.; Review of English Lit.; and The Worksheets.
Disciplines
Literature, Humanities
Type of Program 
x Single            |     x Mac
  One of a Series   |       IBM
Suitable for:
Individual Instruction
Minimum Requirements
Requires 1 MB RAM.
Vendor
Queue
Cost
$195.00

Instructional Characteristics

Instructional Techniques 
  Game
x Tutorial
  Simulation
x Informational
  Problem Solving
Documentation Available (Y=yes, N=No, NA= Not Applicable) 
N  Student worksheets/Supplentary Material required
Y  Student worksheets/Supplentary Material provided
N  Reference Manuals Required
Quality 1 (low) to 5 (high) 
3  Content Characteristics
2  Instructional Characteristics
2  Technical Characteristics

Recommendations

I would neither use nor recommend this program

Comments

The CD must be active in order for the program to run. The program consists of short paragraphs of text followed by multiple choice questions (a question follows each paragraph). The first two topics seem most appropriate for junior high; the last ones for high school. The only section that might be worth considering would be the worksheets if someone is teaching one of the following 22 titles: A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Billy Budd, Call of the Wild, Cyroano de Bergerac, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Grapes of Wrath, Great Expectations, Hounds of the Baskervilles, Human Comedy, Ivanhoe, Julius Caesar, Last of the Mohicans, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Macbeth, Madame Bovary, Prince & the Pauper, Red Badge of Courage, Robin Hood, War of the Worlds, White Fang, Wuthering Heights.