Today students were given copies of their primary textbook: Prentice Hall's World Explorer. The copy they received today can stay at home all year, as we also have a classroom set of books to use at school. Additionally, students have online access to their textbooks. We took classtime today to make sure each student recorded the username and password in their assignment notebook for online access to both World Explorer and our supplementary text, History of Our World. We will be using History of Our World in class during our studies of the ancient civilizations.