Chapters 1-3 will be on exam 1.

Read textbook pages: 1 - 110. Be sure to read the information before you view the lecture videos and/or it is covered in class. You will get an idea of the pace once the class has met a few times, don't read all pages in the first sitting.
Work on the problems within the chapter you are reading. Check your answers. Answers to selected problems are at the back of the textbook, and your Study Guide has all the solutions to all problems.
Also in your textbook at the end of each chapter are more tools for your learning success, these include; Summary and Key Words, and later in the book a summary of reactions.
USE YOUR STUDY GUIDE! Not only does it have answers to all the problems in the text, it has:
Chapter outlines, and Unit Reviews with practice questions.

The Appendices include