America: A Narrative History Family
Flexible student and instructor resources
The following digital resources are included with all new copies of the text or can be purchased standalone. Accessibility is at the core of all the products we create, with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most widely accepted voluntary international standard for accessibility, ensuring that all students can succeed in your course.
The Norton Illumine Ebook
The NEW Norton Illumine Ebook enhances students’ reading and learning experience. Engaging features illustrate and reinforce core concepts for all students in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment.
Check Your Understanding questions with rich answer-specific feedback break chapters up into smaller sections and help ensure students understand each section they’ve read.
Comparing Perspectives interactives walk students step-by-step through the different perspectives presented in two brief document excerpts in each chapter.
Visual Explorations interactives guide students through an exploration of one of the most richly detailed primary source images in each chapter.
InQuizitive
InQuizitive is Norton’s easy-to-use adaptive learning tool that personalizes the learning experience for students, helping them to learn—and retain—key learning objectives. Through a variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and gamelike elements, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve learned the concepts.
The InQuizitive course for America features over 1,500 engaging, interactive questions featuring primary source document excerpts, images, and maps.
A NEW "How to Use InQuizitive" assignment shows students the benefits of using the adaptive learning tool.
History Skills Tutorials
The History Skills Tutorials are interactive, online modules that support student development of key skills for the American history survey course. With interactive practice assessments, helpful guiding feedback, and author videos, these tutorials teach students the critical analysis skills that they will use in their academic and professional careers.
Tutorial types include:
Analyzing Secondary Source Documents
Analyzing Primary Source Documents
Analyzing Images
Analyzing Maps
Thinking Like a Historian Exercises
Assignable Thinking Like a Historian exercises for each chapter examine a major interpretive issue through the lens of primary source evidence and secondary source interpretations. A series of interactive questions with guiding feedback helps students dissect and compare the sources.
Course Design
Learn how our tools can be used before, during, and after your online or in-person class.
For Students:
Accessibility is central to Norton’s products. To meet the greatest range of requirements, we follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and strive for WCAG 2.1 AA across all products.
For Instructors:
Receive on-demand support from a dedicated Customer Success Manager who will consult on course design, integrate our tools into your LMS, and provide ongoing support. In a recent survey, 91 percent of instructors felt supported or very supported using Norton learning tools.
A Quality Matters Correlation Guide shows how our resources align with the Quality Matters standards, an independent certification process that certain schools adopt for their online programs.
Beginning of Term
For Students:
History Skills Tutorials provide guidance for students and model how to analyze primary source documents, images, maps, and other types of historical evidence, including archaeological discoveries, genetics, and more.
For Instructors:
Most instructors assign the tutorials as primers that prepare students to analyze primary sources and maps throughout the course. Instructors tell us that assigning the tutorials for 5–10 percent of a homework or participation grade ensures that all students complete the activities.
First Day of Class PowerPoint slides for the Norton Illumine Ebook, InQuizitive, Thinking Like a Historian exercises, and History Skills Tutorials will help you frame each assignment transparently, an approach that has been shown to lead to more equitable outcomes.
Before Class
For Students:
The Norton Illumine Ebook breaks the chapters into smaller, more digestible chunks of information with low-stakes concept check questions (called “Check Your Understanding”) at the end of each section to ensure students understand what they’ve read in one section before they move on to the next. Students receive answer-specific feedback as they work through each section’s questions.
Designed by a cognitive psychologist, InQuizitive adaptive learning activities promote a growth mindset and build understanding through retrieval practice and concept application.
For Instructors:
Instructors tell us that assigning the Norton Illumine Ebook or InQuizitive for 10–15 percent of the course points ensures students complete the reading and understand important concepts. Integration ensures that grades flow into your LMS gradebook.
The Instructor’s Manual offers helpful and creative resources for planning lectures and classroom activities. The teaching resources in this manual include Chapter Summaries; detailed Chapter Outlines; Focus Questions / Core Objectives; Discussion Prompts; Practicing Citizenship; Lecture Ideas / Activities; and information on assigning Thinking Like a Historian exercises, including Writing Prompts to assign students after the completion of each exercise.
Lecture PowerPoints available for each chapter in the text are fully customizable and feature images and bulleted chapter outlines for in-class presentation, as well as lecture notes in the Notes section of each slide.
Art PowerPoints feature all the art (images and maps) from the book, sized for classroom display, and are available in PowerPoint with alt text and JPEG formats.
After Class
For Students:
An enhanced Online Reader features hundreds of primary source documents and images, with support materials such as brief headnotes, discussion prompts, and more.
Hundreds of Author Videos help students understand the essential developments in the American history course.
Flashcards invite students to review the key terms from the textbook.
Chapter Outlines give students a detailed snapshot of the key topics of each chapter.
“What’s It All About?” Infographics employ the themes of continuity and change to frame visual overviews of important developments, such as the evolution of African Americans’ legal status from the Civil War through Reconstruction.
For Instructors:
Resources for Your LMS easily add high-quality Norton digital resources to your online, hybrid, or lecture courses through integrated links. Get started building your course with our easy-to-use resources; all activities can be accessed from within your existing learning management system. Build your course using a carefully designed learning pathway or customize your setup to best reflect your teaching needs. Graded activities can be configured to report to the LMS course gradebook.
The Test Bank for America features more than 2,500 questions—including multiple-choice, true/false, and short-answer—aligned to each chapter of the book. Norton Testmaker brings Norton’s high-quality testing materials online. Create assessments for your course from anywhere with an internet connection, without downloading files or installing specialized software. Search and filter test bank questions by chapter, type, level of difficulty, learning objectives, and other criteria.
Customer Support
We support you and your students with reliable, proactive assistance. A dedicated customer success manager is assigned and will reach out before, during, and after each term—anticipating your specific needs and providing
- course design consultation,
- setup in all major learning management systems, and
- ongoing guidance throughout the life of the adoption.
This is the kind of support you’ve come to expect from W. W. Norton. As an independent, employee-owned company, we can make decisions that are mutually beneficial for our company and the discipline—unbeholden to outside shareholders. Although we’re unique, we’re not small and have the service and structure to provide support for all the years you choose to work with us.
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