Queue Workbooks

Looking around for new business, we tried to buy:

but the price was too high. However we made a deal to become their exclusive  marketing agent (note bottom of the cover). We raised their sales to the point that they rescinded the deal after 2 years. By then we had learned enough to go into the business ourselves,and so began our 2nd life, as workbook publishers.

We placed many of our books on approved lists including NYC and Georgia:

- Queue’s Language Arts Workbooks were overwhelming (16-2) approved by a review board of Georgia educators for inclusion on Georgia’s approved list:

K-8

Common Core - Edit and Revise Gr 2 - 8, Common Core - English Language Arts Gr 2 - 8, Common Core - Reading Comprehension Gr 3 - 5, Common Core - Writing Gr 3 - 8, Cloze Reading Comprehension Gr 2 - 8, Reading Comprehension Gr 2, Skills for Assessment Gr 1 - 2,

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American Classic Short Stories, High School Composition, High School Reading Comprehension, History of American Literature, Reading in American Literature I, Reading in American Literature II,

 My favorite titles:


American Classic Short Stories

by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz and Kathi Godiksen
Edited by Patricia F. Braccio, Sarah M. Williams, and Joanna Nictas

To the Teacher ....................................................................................................................................v
To the Students..................................................................................................................................vi
The Gold-Bug (1843)............................................................................................................................1
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
The Great Stone Face (1850) ..........................................................................................................27
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) ................................................................................................45
Bret Harte (1836–1902)
April 25th, As Usual (1919) ..............................................................................................................56
Edna Ferber (1885–1968)
The Lady, or the Tiger? (1882) ......................................................................................................75
Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902)
The Camel’s Back (1920)..................................................................................................................83
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
The Man Without a Country (1917) ............................................................................................105
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909)
The Enchanted Bluff (1909) ..........................................................................................................124
Willa Cather (1875–1947)
A Respectable Woman (1894) ........................................................................................................133
Kate Chopin (1850–1904)
Her Virginia Mammy ....................................................................................................................138
from The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and
Selected Essays (1899) by Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858–1932)
Silas Jackson ..................................................................................................................................152
from The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900)
by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
The Gift of the Magi (1905) ..........................................................................................................162
O. Henry (1862–1910)
Tom’s Husband (1882) ....................................................................................................................169
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)


The History of American Literature
by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz and Kathi Godiksen
Edited by Patricia F. Braccio and Sarah M. Williams

To the Students..........................................................................................................v
Chapter 1: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 ......................................1
The Literature of Exploration..............................................................................................................1
The Colonial Period in New England..................................................................................................6
Literature in the Southern and Middle Colonies ............................................................................23
Chapter 2: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776–1820 ............27
The American Enlightenment ..........................................................................................................32
The Political Pamphlet ......................................................................................................................37
Neoclassism: Epic, Mock Epic, and Satire........................................................................................39
Poet of the American Revolution: Philip Freneau (1752–1832) ......................................................41
Writers of Fiction................................................................................................................................43
Women and Minorities ......................................................................................................................49
Chapter 3: The Romantic Period, 1820–1860: Essayists and Poets......................52
Transcendentalism ............................................................................................................................54
The Brahmin Poets ............................................................................................................................63
Two Reformers ....................................................................................................................................66
Chapter 4: The Romantic Period, 1820–1860: Fiction............................................70
The Romance ......................................................................................................................................72
Women Writers and Reformers..........................................................................................................82
Chapter 5: The Rise of Realism: 1860–1914 ..........................................................89
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835–1910)....................................................................................90
Frontier Humor and Realism ............................................................................................................95
Local Colorists ....................................................................................................................................96
Midwestern Realism ..........................................................................................................................98
Cosmopolitan Novelists......................................................................................................................98
Naturalism and Muckraking ..........................................................................................................102
The “Chicago School” of Poetry........................................................................................................108
Two Women Regional Novelists ......................................................................................................112
The Rise of Black American Literature ..........................................................................................113
Table of Contents
Chapter 6: Modernism and Experimentation: 1914–1945 ....................................116
Modernism ........................................................................................................................................121
Poetry 1914–1945: Experiments in Form ......................................................................................123
Between the Wars ............................................................................................................................131
Prose Writing, 1914–1945: American Realism ..............................................................................134
Novels of Social Awareness ..............................................................................................................139
The Harlem Renaissance ................................................................................................................145
Literary Currents: The Fugitives and New Criticism ..................................................................147
20th-Century American Drama ......................................................................................................149
Chapter 7: American Poetry Since 1945: The Anti-Tradition ............................152
Traditionalism ..................................................................................................................................155
Idiosyncratic Poets ..........................................................................................................................160
Experimental Poetry ........................................................................................................................165
Women and Multiethnic Poets ........................................................................................................171
New Directions ................................................................................................................................178
Chapter 8: American Prose Since 1945: Realism and Experimentation ............180
The Realist Legacy and the Late 1940s..........................................................................................182
The Affluent But Alienated 1950s ..................................................................................................186
The Turbulent But Creative 1960s..................................................................................................196
The 1970s and 1980s: New Directions ............................................................................................201
The New Regionalism ......................................................................................................................206
Glossary ............................................................................................................................215


Readings in American Literature Volume I: 1620–1865
Teacher Edition
by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz and Kathi Godiksen
Edited by Patricia F. Braccio and Sarah M. Williams

Teacher’s Introduction ............................................................................................v
To the Students ........................................................................................................vi
History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford ..............................................1
Poems by Anne Bradstreet ..........................................................................................6
Before the Birth of One of Her Children ......................................................................................6
Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th, 1666. ..........................................................8
To My Dear and Loving Husband................................................................................................11
From “The Day of Doom” by Michael Wigglesworth ................................................12
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson..................14
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus
Vassa, the African Written by Himself ..................................................................19
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York by Jupiter Hammon ..........26
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin ........................31
Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ..............35
The American Crisis by Thomas Paine ....................................................................41
Poems by Philip Freneau ..........................................................................................45
The Prison Ship ............................................................................................................................45
The Wild Honeysuckle ................................................................................................................50
To a Honey Bee ............................................................................................................................53
The Indian Burying-Ground........................................................................................................57
Eutaw Springs ..............................................................................................................................60
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown ......................................................................63
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving ....................................................................66
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper ............................................70
Poems by Phillis Wheatley ........................................................................................73
To the King’s Most Excellent Magesty. 1768. ............................................................................73
On Being Brought from Africa to America. ................................................................................75
On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age. ................................................................76
An Hymn to the Morning. / An Hymn to the Evening...............................................................79
Ode to Neptune.............................................................................................................................82
A Rebus, by I.B. / An Answer to the Rebus by the Author of these Poems. ............................85
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson ..................................................................88
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau ................................93
From “I Sing the Body Electric” Published in Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman ....................................................................................................97
Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ................................................................103
From “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie” ........................................................................................103
The Song of Hiawatha................................................................................................................107
Poems by James Russell Lowell ..............................................................................110
On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington..............................................................110
Hawthorne (1848) from A Fable for Critics ............................................................................113
Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes ............................................................................114
Old Ironsides ..............................................................................................................................114
The Chambered Nautilus ..........................................................................................................116
Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier..........................................................................119
Ichabod ........................................................................................................................................119
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl ......................................................................................................121
On Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller ................................128
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ........................................................132
Moby Dick by Herman Melville ..............................................................................139
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe ............................................145
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe ......................................................................................150
The Raven. ..................................................................................................................................150
Annabel Lee. ..............................................................................................................................154
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
by Lydia Maria Child ..........................................................................................156
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ......................................................166
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (aka. Linda Brent) ......171
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson..................................................................................176
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass ............181
Teacher’s Introduction ............................................................................................v
To the Students ........................................................................................................vi
History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford ..............................................1
Poems by Anne Bradstreet ..........................................................................................6
Before the Birth of One of Her Children ......................................................................................6
Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th, 1666. ..........................................................8
To My Dear and Loving Husband................................................................................................11
From “The Day of Doom” by Michael Wigglesworth ................................................12
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson..................14
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus
Vassa, the African Written by Himself ..................................................................19
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York by Jupiter Hammon ..........26
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin ........................31
Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ..............35
The American Crisis by Thomas Paine ....................................................................41
Poems by Philip Freneau ..........................................................................................45
The Prison Ship ............................................................................................................................45
The Wild Honeysuckle ................................................................................................................50
To a Honey Bee ............................................................................................................................53
The Indian Burying-Ground........................................................................................................57
Eutaw Springs ..............................................................................................................................60
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown ......................................................................63
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving ....................................................................66
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper ............................................70
Poems by Phillis Wheatley ........................................................................................73
To the King’s Most Excellent Magesty. 1768. ............................................................................73
On Being Brought from Africa to America. ................................................................................75
On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age. ................................................................76
An Hymn to the Morning. / An Hymn to the Evening...............................................................79
Ode to Neptune.............................................................................................................................82
A Rebus, by I.B. / An Answer to the Rebus by the Author of these Poems. ............................85
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson ..................................................................88
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau ................................93
From “I Sing the Body Electric” Published in Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman ....................................................................................................97
Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ................................................................103
From “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie” ........................................................................................103
The Song of Hiawatha................................................................................................................107
Poems by James Russell Lowell ..............................................................................110
On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington..............................................................110
Hawthorne (1848) from A Fable for Critics ............................................................................113
Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes ............................................................................114
Old Ironsides ..............................................................................................................................114
The Chambered Nautilus ..........................................................................................................116
Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier..........................................................................119
Ichabod ........................................................................................................................................119
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl ......................................................................................................121
On Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller ................................128
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ........................................................132
Moby Dick by Herman Melville ..............................................................................139
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe ............................................145
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe ......................................................................................150
The Raven. ..................................................................................................................................150
Annabel Lee. ..............................................................................................................................154
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
by Lydia Maria Child ..........................................................................................156
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ......................................................166
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (aka. Linda Brent) ......171
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson..................................................................................176
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass ............181

Readings in American Literature
Volume II: 1865–1923
by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz and Kathi Godiksen
Edited by Patricia F. Braccio and Sarah M. Williams

Teacher’s Introduction ............................................................................................v
To the Students ........................................................................................................vi
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chapters I–II) by Mark Twain ............................1
The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte................................................................13
The White Heron (Chapters I–II) by Sarah Orne Jewett........................................25
The Awakening (Chapters I–IV) by Kate Chopin ....................................................35
The Yellow Wallpaper (partial) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ................................46
The Rise of Silas Lapham (Chapter I—partial) by William Dean Howells............56
The Portrait of a Lady (Chapter I) by Henry James ..............................................69
Ethan Frome (partial) by Edith Wharton ................................................................78
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane..................................................91
Martin Eden (Chapter I) by Jack London..............................................................100
O Pioneers! (Part One—Chapter I) by Willa Cather..............................................111
The Quest of the Silver Fleece (Chapter I) by W.E.B. DuBois..............................118
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Chapter I)
by James Weldon Johnson....................................................................................125
The Wife of His Youth (Chapters I–II) by Charles Waddell Chesnutt ..................134
This Side of Paradise (Chapter I—partial) by F. Scott Fitzgerald........................142
Main Street (Chapter I—Sections I–IV) by Sinclair Lewis ..................................153
Three Soldiers (Chapter I) by John Dos Passos ....................................................161


High School Reading Comprehension

by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz and Sarah M. Williams
Edited by Patricia F. Braccio
Teacher’s Introduction..................................................v
To the Students..............................................................ix
The Gift of the Magi ..........................................................1
by O. Henry
“The Bells” ........................................................................14
by Edgar Allen Poe
from Great Expectations ..................................................22
by Charles Dickens
An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the
Variolæ Vaccinæ, Or Cow-Pox ..................................28
by Edward Jenner
On Women’s Right to Vote ..............................................34
by Susan B. Anthony
The Last Class: The Story of a Little Alsatian ..............41
by Alphonse Daudet
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” ....................................51
by William Wordsworth
“How the Case Stands” from How the Other
Half Lives....................................................................56
by Jacob A. Riis
Paired Passages ..............................................................64
Passage I: from Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passage II: “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold”
by William Wordsworth
Her First Ball ..................................................................71
by Katherine Mansfield
“My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” ............79
by William Shakespeare
“Delight in Disorder”........................................................82
by Robert Herrick
from “The Most Dangerous Game” ................................85
by Richard Connell
“To Autumn” ....................................................................93
by John Keats
from Act I, Scene IV of Romeo and Juliet ......................99
by William Shakespeare
“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”................................104
by Emily Dickenson
The Lottery Ticket ........................................................107
by Anton Chekov
from Act III, Scene III of Hamlet ..................................116
by William Shakespeare
Paired Passages ............................................................120
Passage I: “London 1802”
by William Wordsworth
Passage II: “England 1819”
by Percy Shelley
from Book IX of Homer’s The Odyssey ........................127
“The Haunted Oak”........................................................137
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Cask of Amontillado ......................................................144
by Edgar Allen Poe
from David Crockett: His Life and Adventures ............154
by John S.C. Abbott
“The Darkling Thrush” ..................................................160
by Thomas Hardy
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ..165
by Mark Twain
from Pride and Prejudice ..............................................174
by Jane Austen
Paired Passages ............................................................179
Passage I: “Out, Out—”
by Robert Frost
Passage II: from Act V, Scene V of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
“I Fall Into Disgrace” from David Copperfield ............186
by Charles Dickens
from Act I of The Importance of Being Earnest............193
by Oscar Wilde
A Wagner Matinee..........................................................199
by Willa Cather
Journey of the Beagle ....................................................207
by Charles Darwin
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address ..........................215
“Splendor Falls” from The Princess ..............................223
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Story of an Hour ....................................................228
by Kate Chopin
“Old Ironsides” ..............................................................234
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Letter 4” from Frankenstein ........................................239
by Mary Shelley
Street Scenes in Washington ........................................247
by Louisa May Alcott
from Narrative of the Life of a Slave ............................252
by Frederick Douglass
“I Hear America Singing” from Leaves of Grass ..........257
by Walt Whitman
The Metamorphosis........................................................261
by Franz Kafka
Of Regiment of Health ..................................................267
by Sir Francis Bacon
from “Small-Boat Sailing” ............................................273
by Jack London
The Diamond Necklace..................................................280
by Guy de Maupassant
Plato’s “The Apology” from The Dialogues
of Socrates ................................................................293
edited by Benjamen Jowett
The Plumber ..................................................................299
by Charles Dudley Warner
The Servant ....................................................................305
by S.T. Semyonov
from War of the Worlds ..................................................314
by H.G. Wells

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