Rationale

If you have ever wondered what the most significant key events of the past five years are, your answer would lie in my textbook. The issues and events that are mentioned in it not only focus on the traditional textbook facts but also the multi-cultural relevance and social history of America from 2005 up to 2010. I make sure to include why each significant detail is important as to further back up my supporting details. The title of my textbook is called "America Turning a New Page." This embodies the message that my textbook sends because it is all about the changes that our nation has endured. Each main topic is a different theme that captures the various events of the past five years. Under each main topic, two-three subtopics are placed which include various events for supporting detail. My textbook teaches the economic, environmental, technological and political aspects of 2005 up to 2010 and shows how they have changed throughout the past five years. "America Turning a New Page" creates an outlook on the most significant key events and their historical relevance and outcome in history. The significant events that I focused on were the major events that not only shaped the nation, but also changed every Americans life. I want to prove the importance of my events by describing how much they made an impact on different individuals lives. The topics that I have chosen to include in “America Turning a New Page” are all those that have shaped the nation into what it has become today. Under each topic I created two-three subtopics that include major events which emphasize the importance of the main topic. I make sure to include the cause of each event, along with how it effected American citizens’ lives. I want my reader to get a firm understanding of each topic and comprehend the effects of those topics. By underlying the topics with various events in the subtopics, the reader is able to connect it all and fully grasp the concepts. The main topics that I decided to use are titled “Long Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina,” “The Peak of Environmental Awareness,” “Recession,” “The Rise of new Technology,” and “New President, New Nation.” These main topics have all played a great role in changing America. The main concept that I want my reader to grasp is how these events and topics shaped the nation and made it what it is today. By connecting all these issues in the textbook to their lives today, the reader will earn a solid knowledge of each event. My textbook captures the most significant moments of the past five years and teaches them in a thoughtful, comprehensive manner. Although I was able to include various main events that shaped the nation, I left out a few that had no relevance. For example, since my key concept was how the events included changed and shaped America, I left out those that did not make as much of an impact. In the section “Long Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina,” I discussed how it affected the economy, and what people did to help and not help. However, I did leave out the number of deaths and surviving victims, because I want the reader to realize how badly America was affected by all of this and not worry about numbers. I also left out numerous details in the section “The Rise of new Technology,” like cell phones or blackberries. I thought that the rise of the internet and iPod fad was more important because were both new, interesting fields of technology and proved to be successful. Another section that I took away from was “New President, New Nation.” In this section, I talked less about the debates and the fight between the candidates. I focus mainly on Barack Obama and his winning campaign because I feel as though that was the most significant detail. Although the debates were interesting, I want to give the reader a better understanding of who the president is and why he is here, especially his aspiration of change. Several things have been taken out of my textbook, but all the other important events make up a great deal of them. The reader will be able to fully comprehend the effects and changes that each event made, without knowing the minor details that weren’t so important to the main idea.