MON 29
Skeletal Muscle Microanatomy
Fascicles, fibers, myofibrils, sarcomeres. How a whole muscle is built from the inside out.
Motor Units and Muscle Mechanics
What a motor unit is and how muscles grade their force.
BIO 304 · Week 4 of 8 · Jun 29 to Jul 5 · Nightly Pre-Work
How muscles contract, how neurons fire.
Four pre-work days. Five topics. How muscles actually contract at the molecular level, and how neurons actually generate and send signals. Each topic page walks you through the reading, the fill-in-the-blank notes, the video, and then opens your nightly spaced-recall cards. Open one topic on Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri. Wednesday is catch-up and discussion.
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 four submitted, 11:59 PM
Quiz closes
Sun, Jul 5
11:59 PM, one attempt
Your four pre-work days
Open one topic per day.
Each topic links to its lecture page. The lecture page is the gate into your spaced-recall cards for that topic.
TUE 30
Sliding Filament and the Cross-Bridge Cycle
How actin and myosin actually contract. The molecular event behind every muscle move.
THU 02
Neurons and Resting Membrane Potential
Neuron parts plus the ion balance that creates the -70 mV resting state.
FRI 03
Action Potentials and Synaptic Transmission
Depolarization, repolarization, and how one neuron talks to the next.
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
Day 13 is two topics. Open it.
Microanatomy and motor units together. Both feed directly into Tuesday's sliding filament story.
Open Skeletal Muscle Microanatomy