Here are some explicit reading and review assignments from Stanley, Earth System History (1999).
Some of the lecture notes on the web also list relevant text book pages and figures.

Climate and Environment - Chapter 4

read esp. p. 98-101 (The Atmosphere)

and p. 109-112 (The Marine Realm)

see also reference to textbook in lecture notes

Sedimentary Environments - Chapter 5

read esp. p. 126 (glacial) through 134 (meandering rivers)

and 138 - 148 (marine environments)

see also reference to textbook in lecture notes

Chapter Summary

Review Questions, p. 149, 1 & 4, 12, 13

Stratigraphy and Correlation - Chapter 6

see lecture notes for text pages
Review Questions, p. 178, 1, 5, 8

Geologic Time - Chapter 6

read p. 154-156

and p. 163-169
Review Questions, p. 178, 2, 3, 7

Evolution and the Fossil Record - Chapter 7

read esp. p. 185-195

Chapter Summary, p. 204, 1-7

Review Questions, p. 205, 1, 2, 6, 7

The Carbon Cycle and Climate - Chapter 10

read 257-278 (minus section on carbon isotopes)

chapter summary 1-6, 8, 10

review questions 1-2, 4-9, 12

Origin of the Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere, and the first Continents - Chapter 11

read 285-305

The Origin and Growth of Laurentia, Rodinia, Gondwana - Chapter 12

read 329-338 (minus section on Middle Proterozoic Rifting)

Archean Life - Chapter 11

read 306-311

Proterozoic Life and Evolution of the Atmosphere - Chapter 12

read 321-328

The Cambrian Revolution and Early Paleozoic Animal Life - Chapter 13

read esp. 341-353

The Appalachian Orogen - Chapters 13, 14, 15

Cambrian paleogeography: 355-356

Taconic Orogeny: 361-364

Taconic clastic wedge: Acadian Orogeny: 389-394

Appalachian Orogeny :421-422

Ouachita Orogeny: 422

Evolution of Vertebrates and Invasion of the Land - Chapters 14, 15

evolution of fish: 374-380

invasion of the land: 381-386

Late Pz terrestrial life: 405-414

Permian extinctions: 418-420

The Breakup of Pangea - Chapters 16, 17

Breakup of Pangea: 453-454

Rift Basins (Newark Basin): 456-458

New Continents and Oceans: 476-479

The Western Cordillera - Chapters 14, 16, 17, 18, 19

Antler Orogeny: 394-395

Jurassic Magmatism: 458-460

Foreland Basin: 461-462

Sevier Orogeny: 487-489

Laramide Orogeny: 511-515

Basin and Range: 536-543

San Andreas Fault: 543

The Alpine-Himalayan Mountain Belt - Chapters 9, 19

248-251; 548-549

Life in the Mesozoic - Chapters 16, 17

Mesozoic life: esp. 441-451

Cretaceous life: 472-476

K-T extinctions: 482-486

Cretaceous Greenhouse to Cenozoic Icehouse Climate - Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20

High Cretaceous Sea Level: 479-480

Cretaceous Greenhouse Climate: 481-482

Deterioration of Cenozoic Climate: 526-536

Thermal isolation of Antarctica: 510

Closure of Isthmus of Panama: 534-535

Late Cenozoic glacial cycles: 529-536

Holocene Climate: 562-566; 569-582

Life in the Cenozoic - Chapters 18, 19, 20

Cenozoic life: esp. 499-504

Hominid evolution: 549-556

Extinction of Large Mammals: 567-569