Unit 1: What’s Required and What’s Not (and a guide to other things that may help you)

Tips: What Helps Learning? or use this URL: http://www.cjbibus.com/Getting_Started_FAQsWhatHelpsLearning.pdf

Like all of the Units in the course, when used with the required textbook, Unit 1 contains all the content you need and all assignments. Tips: Stay in the Unit to succeed.

1. Required: Read—and use consistently—the Course Schedule at the end of the Syllabus & Schedule! The Course Schedule tells you when each assignments is due, including when you should begin planning your work and when you must complete an assignment to earn extra credit. Tip from a prior (and very successful) student: Print the Course Schedule, hang it so you see it from your computer, and check off each assignment as you do it.

Before you begin with the first Chapter, notice what is in this Unit and in the Course Schedule. You see:

· The link to the Study Guide for Unit 1’s two-part exam, with the date when its content is visible

· 4 learning units (), one for each textbook Chapter.

· A statement that shows where you will see the 2 parts of Unit 1’s exam on the date in the Course Schedule

· Resources used throughout the Unit—with the current one being the forum Students Helping Students with History

2. Click on Chapter 1 () and then click on Figuring It Out (Learning is More Than Memorizing), which includes in this order:

· Links from Your Instructor – links made in response to students’ questions about how facts fit together

· Required: Chapter 1 InQuizitive Other resources for the chapter if applicable - Click on it to start determining what you know and you don’t know—and where you need to read in your textbook.

· Required: A quiz created by your instructor on the names of eras of time

· Required: A quiz created by your instructor on key terms that students usually don’t know (FYI: this quiz includes questions on the primary for Chapter 1 because you must understand some of these terms to understand the primary)

· Other resources for the chapter if applicable

3. Required: Primary Sources from This Era – Provides one or two primaries required for the Unit Exam.

4. Optional Resources from the Textbook Publisher – Includes brief video explanations of difficult content from the textbook author.

5. Required: If you remained puzzled by a quiz question or if you want to earn points by helping others, click on the Students Helping Students with History. Tip: You earn points by asking questions or answering them.

6. Repeat the steps above with each Chapter. Tip: To succeed, do your work by the date in the Course Schedule. All chapters include an InQuizitive session; Chapter 2 also includes an instructor-created quiz. It is a map showing the English colonies and their sections.

7. On the date the Course Schedule lists for the Study Guide’s content to be visible, click on the Study Guide link and prepare. Take the 2 parts of the exam:
Required: Unit 1 Objective (mainly multiple choice and matching) and
Required: Unit 1 Written Exam. Tip: The content—not the exact words—in the Unit 1 Objective Exam comes from the Instructor’s quizzes and the textbook.

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Last Updated:	2016
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