1. History 11 Orientation
A Guide to all you need to know and learn to be successful in Dr. DelGaudio’s course
FDR’s Wheelchair

2. Key Elements of History 11
Instructor: Julian J. DelGaudio, Ph.D.
Office Hours: by appt.
Office Number: M200
Office Phone:

3. Key Elements of History 11
Course Information
Survey: (130 years)
Method: Thematic Approach using 8 major narrative themes
Multiculturalism
Regional Differentiation
Private Enterprise and the Warfare State
Cultural Change
Social and Cultural Outsiders
Role of Government
Empire and Ecology and Ecological Change
Each themes is a Course Learning Objective/Student Learning Outcome

4. Key Elements of History 11
Course Information
Course Learning Objectives:
Investigate importance of each theme over entire period of study, hence assume recurrence of themes over time
Analyze themes through topics to be identified and discussed for each examination cycle
Four Essay Examinations
Final Examination is not cumulative

5. Key Elements of History 11
Course Information
Assigned Reading:
Jacqueline Jones, Created Equal, 3th Edition, 2008.

6. History for the smart, the fearless, and the fun loving
What history really
add up?

7. On Line History This section of History 11 is an On Line class
On Line classes extend the classroom into cyberspace
Store documents
Maintain Discussion Topic Sentence Forums
Class URL:
Publisher’s website:

8. How the class works Total pages: About 900 (divided by 18 = 50 per wk)
First Exam
Second Exam
Third Exam
Final Exam
Student assessment activities (5%) Grade
15% Grade
Jones, Ch 16-18
Jones, Ch 19-22
Jones, Ch 23-26
Jones, 27-30
Discussion Forum postings
Discussion Forum and topic sentences postings are 35% Grade
Practice Topic Sentences
Total pages: About 900 (divided by 18 = 50 per wk)

9. How the class works Every Week Some Weeks Read a Chapter in Jones
Study Chapter themes and topics, Vocabulary
Fill out and turn in Surveys; post a student bio; Post to post exam forums
Listen to and read posted lectures
Take Lecture Notes
Write a topic Sentence/post to topic forum; Each exam cycle, post to Lecture discussion forum
Take an Exam

10. Themes and Topics

11. Themes and Topics

12. Themes and Topics

13. Themes and Topics

14. Themes and Topics

15. Themes and Topics

16. Themes and Topics

17. Writing Topic Sentences for History 11
Go to the themes and topics page at the website
Select a theme: Say Multiculturalism
Select a topic from among the many listed below the theme:
Say Topic # 3: Ethnic Ancestry of the First Industrial Elite
Review the vocabulary for the chapter, select meaningful terms
that relate to the topic: Say, Andrew Carnegie, John D.
Rockefeller and Thomas A. Edison
Write a topic sentence beginning with the topic as your subject,
and using the vocabulary terms as the object of the sentence.

18. Writing Topic Sentences for History 11
Theme: Multiculturalism
Topic # 3: Ethnic Ancestry of the First Industrial Elite
Vocabulary: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and
Thomas A. Edison
A topic sentence: “The ethnic ancestry of the first industrial
elite provides evidence, it was male, white Anglo-Saxon
Protestants (or WASPs), whether native born in the case of
Rockefeller and Edison, or foreign born in the case of
Carnegie, who dominated post Civil War American
industrial leadership.”

19. Writing Topic Sentences for History 11
For more on how to create topic sentence in History 11 visit
the new website Topic Sentence Central for more explanation and
activities you can engage in to learn how to use this method of
analysis.

20. What Should I do Next?
Visit Website to familiarize yourself with its content
Download and fill out Student Survey, results to the instructor
Start reading Jones
Begin Thinking About how we came to this point in our history!