Software of the Month Club New Member XXII CD-ROM Program Guide - DOS Education - Action English 1.1 Language skills Brush up on your verbs, nouns, prepositions and more with this challenging program. It gives you extensive practice in basic English skills by making you identify the parts of a sentence. Pass each section five times with a score of 90 percent or higher to move to the next level. Perfect for middle school and ESL (English as a Second Language) students. * Asks 1,800 questions * Includes 50 sentences * Reviews 36 English skills, like compounds, infinitives and punctuation * Tracks individual scores and analyzes the progress of each student (Application by David W. King; Password is SPOON) Anna's Language Tutor 3.0 Learn to speak several languages This user-definable language teaching tool is flexible and adaptable. Use it to create language lessons for teaching any language. Choose from a variety of methods, including readings, drills, translations, games, verb helpers and a phrase builder. For each dialect, it teaches nouns, verbs, adjectives, common words and their pronunciation. Additional information includes who speaks the language, their country's geography and history. * Customizable drills and translations options, like time, number of questions and what topics are covered * Supports add-on modules * Drills set up in Concentration-style and multiple-choice questions * 3 language modules included - German, Italian and Spanish (Application by Abavagada Software) The Constitution Notebook 3.4 We the people... The Constitution is possibly the most important democratic document ever written. Do you know why? This program helps you understand the significance of this document. * Complete copy of the Constitution with all 27 Amendments, the Ratification Resolution and the Resolution prefacing the Bill of Rights * Review its extensive rights commentary pages to gain insight into the Bill of Rights * Create notes with notebook interactive indexing and comment features * Interactive Search quickly locates areas of interest * Context-sensitive help and three on-screen tutorials (Electronic Book by TCNbP Software) Create A Quiz 3.08 This is only a test Teachers and students can now generate their own on-screen interactive quizzes! You can even use Create a Quiz for surveys and stand-alone kiosks. This one includes a wealth of options, and is menu driven with an easy-to-use interface. * Create multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank quizzes * Print in several formats to meet the needs of teachers and students * Supports up to nine students for each quiz * Contains progress charts for each quiz, recording the best 10 results * Supports high-resolution PCX images (Application by Philip P. Kapusta, Softword Technologies) Deep Sky 1.4 Look closely View stars and other celestial bodies as seen through a telescopic lens. This makes it easy for amateur astronomers to locate galaxies, nebulae and clusters. Both finder and main scope fields can be configured to match your telescope and eyepiece combination for an even more accurate representation. * Star sizes correspond to their visual magnitude * Contains a database of 279,000 stars and 16,000 deep sky objects * Stars can be plotted up to the magnitude of 10 * Advanced search engine for finding stars, constellations, planetary bodies and more * Shows hemispheric sky maps (Application by Richard J. Burke; Requires 15MB of hard disk space) Entfrn 1.1 Interactive translator Brush up on your French with this English/French translator. Type in a word, phrase or sentence and the program translates it for you. * Choose from 4 specialized vocabularies - business, automotive, military and beauty * Toggles between English and French translations (Application by Entente Corporation) GradeBook Power 5.00 Teacher's grade book Keep current information about your students with this amazing grade book. Track grades, missing assignments, reprimands and more. It prepares, stores and prints more than 30 reports for students, parents and administrators. * Includes attendance and seating chart options * Supports both four to nine week quarters or three to six week terms per semester * Handles up to 15 classes with 40 students per class and 60 assignments per student * Adjustable grade scales (Application by WISCO Computing) Know It All 1.0 Geography crossword See if you really know it all with this geography trivia challenge! See how many geography questions you can answer. Complete with colorful graphics and an intuitive interface. * One or two player challenge * Save and load your games * 3 levels of difficulty (Application by Software Avenue, Inc.) MicroScope for the PC 3.0 A closer look A superb introduction to the microscope! Great for children and adults interested in life sciences. It comes with a set of shareware slides featuring video and still image clips. There's a pictorial guide to optical microscopes and a comprehensive manual. * Magnify slide images from 1x up to 1600x * Image enhancement tool such as colored filters, optical emulations, variable daylight or halogen simulated illumination and negative-positive viewing * Graphics interface (Application by Molcol Software; Requires 7MB of hard disk space and a DOS mouse driver) PC-Proof 3.4 Say what? Improve your writing skills with this professional grammar checker. Checks for several errors, including dropped words, subject-verb agreement, misused articles and more. It provides explanations and suggestions for encountered errors. * Compatible with WordPerfect, Word, Works, WinWord, ProWrite, PC-Write, WordStart, Windows Write and ASCII * Reports the approximate education level of the grammar based on the Gunning Fog Index * Loaded as a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) so you can use it within any program (Application by Intellect Systems) ShareSpell 3.1 How do you spell ? Check the spelling of any ASCII document with this stand- alone spell checker. It is completely interactive. It displays the text as it checks for errors and flags any questionable words. Correct the word manually or use the suggested spelling. Extremely useful when creating essays, research reports and term papers. * 80,000-word dictionary * Add custom words * Three suggestion methods - close match, phoneme and OCR (Application by Acropolis Software) Verbal Vanquish 2.3 Learn exam strategies Vanquish your college placement anguish with this great program! This tutor really improves your entrance exam scores. Several lessons emphasize study technique strategies, not boring lesson drills. The strategic word lists show how you can improve your SAT, PSAT, ACT amd GRE scores. * 12 lessons in all * Word list viewer (Application by James Bair)