TCI Textbook Scavenger Hunt

1. How many Units is the textbook divided into?

8

2. How many Chapters are there in all of the Units?

59

3. What is the Essential Question for Unit 1, Chapter 1? How would you answer it?

What is history, and why should we study it?

4. In which Unit would you expect to learn about racial segregation in the United States? What
makes you think so?
Unit 6: The Search for a Better Life. I think this because it says in Unit 6 lesson 43.

5. What else is there to do with this textbook besides read it? List at least three features you find
at the end of chapters.
Three features at the end of the chapters are summaries, index and glossaries.

6. Open to a chapter that interests you. What terms stand out in the text? How can you get more
information about these terms in the text? Pick a bolded term and give its definition.
When I open a chapter that interests me is World War 2 and the cold wat and something that
stood out was the title of the Lesson which was ‘Origins of World War’. A word that was bolded
that stood out was appeasement and its definition is yielding to an enemy’s demands in order to
maintain peace.

7. How would you use the textbook to find out what the word "suffrage" means?
I would go to the end of the textbook and look in the glossary.

8. How would you use the textbook to find out more about Dolores Huerta?
I would go to her unit and find more information
9. Which map could you use to find out which areas of the United States are used for forestry?

10. Which Unit are you looking forward to the most and why?
The unit I am looking most forward to is ‘The Making of Modern America’ because I want to
know more about the present.

11. How do you feel about using an online textbook? What are some advantages over a paper
textbook? Are there any potential disadvantages?
I think that the online teztbook will be much better than the paper copy because the online
textbook helps by showing you templates and it may or may not help you, but I think that it is
better that the optio