MON 29
Muscle Tissue and Anatomy
The three muscle types, how a whole muscle is built from fascicles to sarcomeres, origins and insertions, levers, and how muscles are named.
BIO 304 · Week 4 of 8 · Jun 29 to Jul 5 · Nightly Pre-Work
How muscles contract, how neurons fire.
Three lectures this week: how skeletal muscle is built, how it contracts, and how the nervous system is organized. Each lecture page walks you through the reading, the fill-in-the-blank notes, the video, and then opens your nightly spaced-recall cards. Lectures land Mon, Tue, and Thu. Wednesday and Friday are catch-up, discussion, and the quiz.
How each pre-work session runs
Four steps, in order.
Same four steps every pre-work day. The order matters. The retrieval check is what makes the cards work.
01
Open the topic, print the workbook
Pick the day's topic from the list below. Print that day's lab workbook before you sit down. Breaking flow to find a printer is where good study sessions die.
02
Watch the short video
Finishing the video is what starts the retrieval gate. Read the fill-in-the-blank notes alongside it.
03
Write the 60-word check
Pull together what the video just taught you. Submitting unlocks the spaced-recall cards for the topic.
04
Run the nightly cards
DOK 1 to DOK 3 cards. They carry over into future Daily Reviews so the work compounds.
This week at a glance
Six dates to put on your calendar.
Week opens
Mon, Jun 29
First pre-work day
Discussion post
Fri, Jul 3
Initial post, 11:59 PM
Quiz opens
Fri, Jul 3
20 questions, 20 minutes
Discussion replies
Sun, Jul 5
Two replies, 11:59 PM
Lab workbooks
Sun, Jul 5
All three submitted, 11:59 PM
Quiz closes
Sun, Jul 5
11:59 PM, one attempt
Your lecture days
Open one lecture per day.
Each lecture links to its page. The lecture page is the gate into your spaced-recall cards for that topic.
TUE 30
Muscle Physiology
The neuromuscular junction, calcium and the sliding filament cross-bridge cycle, relaxation, motor units, fiber types, fatigue, and cardiac and smooth muscle.
THU 02
Nervous Tissue, Organization and Anatomy
CNS and PNS, sensory and motor divisions, the parts of a neuron, glial cells, brain regions, the spinal cord, meninges, and cerebrospinal fluid.
A note from me
Week 4, same rhythm.
Each pre-work day takes about 30 to 45 minutes if you sit with it. The retrieval check is the part that makes it stick. Do not skip writing those 60 words, even when the cards look like the easier path.
If you fall behind on a day, do that day's topic first before moving to the next. The spaced-recall cards only schedule properly when you have done the work on the topic page first.
Dr. Sharilyn Rennie
Ready to start
Monday is Muscle Tissue and Anatomy. Open it.
Start with how a whole muscle is built. It sets up Tuesday's contraction story and everything after.
Open Muscle Tissue and Anatomy