Overview

This module invites you to investigate your personal reading histories and historical lenses, shows you how to read historical text and primary sources, and introduces you to the cultural makeup of the Earliest Americans.

Learner Outcomes

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

Identify and articulate your personal reading strengths and challenges.
Read a piece of historical text and primary source for meaning using different reading and thinking strategies.
Identify several different cultures and practices of Americans before the Europeans arrived.

Why This is Important

Writing down your history with reading text and historical documents will help you to become a better student and learner in this course.

As you study history in this course you will be required to look at many primary source documents in order to come to your own conclusions about what happened and not just what another person has written.

Before Europeans arrived, America was a rich and diverse society that drastically changed with the Age of Exploration. It is important to look at this cultural makeup.