{"id":85,"date":"2011-02-14T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=85"},"modified":"2011-07-29T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T20:30:25","slug":"preparing-for-exam-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2011\/02\/preparing-for-exam-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Exam #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first exam will be Wednesday, February 16th. It will cover the material in Chapters 17-21 of <i>Experience History<\/i>. It will be an open-book test. You can bring and use both the <i>Experience History<\/i> textbook and the <i>For the Record<\/i> reader (but no notes).<\/p>\n<p>The format will include multiple-choice questions, a timeline, short identifications and an essay question that will ask you to use one or more documents in the FTR reader. <\/p>\n<p>Do not assume that because it is open book that you will not need to study. Open-book exams are considerably harder than closed-book ones, I assure you. I am not providing a &#8220;study guide&#8221;; let the book be your guide &#8211; you are responsible for anything that is covered in the textbook. You should study the textbook thoroughly, including the review &#038; timelines at the end of each chapter. Remember that you can also take advantage of the free self-tests, flash cards, quizzes and other review materials at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwnorton.com\/college\/history\/america8\/full\/welcome.aspx\">Norton StudySpace<\/a>, and using the resources in their Chapters 18-23 will allow you to study the material that this first unit has covered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first exam will be Wednesday, February 16th. It will cover the material in Chapters 17-21 of Experience History. It will be an open-book test. You can bring and use both the Experience History textbook and the For the Record reader (but no notes). The format will include multiple-choice questions, a timeline, short identifications and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-strategies","tag-spr11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}