The Reality behind the Fiction
 Required CITED Sources:
1. Novel
2. Dictionary
3. Encyclopedia
4. 2 Web Informational sources
5. Image
 Assignment Submission
 Set of 5 Bullet Point Notes on your topic
 MLA Cited Bibliography on the BACK
of the 5 x 8 Card
 ALL CARDS SHOULD BE NEAT & IN
PEN
 For your topic you need to:
 Give a brief summary of whom they
were
 Why they were historically
significant
 How they are currently relevant
 And complete the individual questions
on your card.
TOPIC 1: H.H HOLMES
Questions:
Sources
What made Holmes such a
villainous character?
 Novel: Devil in the White City
2.
What was significant about his
victims & what did he do to them?
 Encyclopedia (NOT TO DEFINE YOUR
3.
Describe “The Castle”
4.
What makes a person a
psychopath?
5.
Define “Serial Killer”
1.
Bonus: Who was he connected to in modern
times by the Author’s Notes?
 Dictionary (NOT ONLINE)
TERM)
 Web Links:
 harpers.org/archive/1943/12/the-master-ofthe-murder-castle/
 www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/hhholmes/
 www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/hhholmes.html
TOPIC 2: DANIEL HUDSON
BURNHAM
Questions:
Sources
Discuss a significant failure early in
his life.
 Novel: Devil in the White City
2.
What was he MOST notable for
creating?
 Encyclopedia (NOT TO DEFINE YOUR
3.
How did he change architecture for
modern buildings?
1.
4.
What is Urban Planning?
5.
Define “Innovation”
 Dictionary (NOT ONLINE)
TERM)
 Web Links:
 www.chipublib.org/about-daniel-burnam/
 historicdetroit.org/architect/daniel-h-
burnham/
 http://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/
764726.html
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/
peopleevents/e_court.html
TOPIC 3 : WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
IN CHICAGO
Questions:
Sources
1.
When did Women’s Suffrage begin?
 Novel: Devil in the White City
2.
Give a specific example of how this
movement is represented in the
novel.
 Dictionary (NOT ONLINE)
3.
Who were the original
advocates/representatives of the
movement?
4.
How is the success of this movement
significant today?
5.
Define “Suffrage” in this context
 Encyclopedia (NOT TO DEFINE YOUR
TERM)
 Web Links:
 www.lib.niu.edu/1996/iht319602.html
 www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/serv
ices/rjd/findingaids/Suffragef.html
 www.lib.niu.edu/2004/ih11060half.html
TOPIC 4: WORLD’S COLUMBIAN
EXPOSITION INVENTIONS
Questions:
Sources
What inventions do we still use
today?
 Novel: Devil in the White City
2.
What was physically the largest?
 Encyclopedia (NOT TO DEFINE YOUR
3.
What is the most practical?
4.
Who famously spoke or performed
at the fair?
5.
Define “Exposition”
1.
Bonus: What Walt Disney World theme park could
be compared to the World’s Fair?
 Dictionary (NOT ONLINE)
TERM)
 Web Links:
 http://www.chicagoelevated.com/2010/03/
18/inventions-of-the-columbian-expositionof-1893/
 www.chicagohs.org/history/expo/ex1.html
 www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200198127/
TOPIC 5 : JACK THE RIPPER
Questions:
Sources
What was significant about the
victims of Jack the Ripper?
 Novel: Devil in the White City
2.
Why is he remembered in history
where Holmes is not?
 Encyclopedia (NOT TO DEFINE YOUR
3.
How was these killers still relevant
today?
 Web Links:
1.
4.
Define “Forensics”
5.
Discuss how forensic science helps
to solve these cases.
 Dictionary (NOT ONLINE)
TERM)
 www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
ripper_jack_the.shtml
 www.bl.uk/romantics-andvictorians/articles/jack-the-ripper
 http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/29/asia/ch
ina-jack-the-ripper/
TOPIC 6 : THE TITANIC
Questions:
Sources
Why was Titanic significant for this
period?
 Novel: Devil in the White City
2.
Why is Titanic still relevant today?
 Encyclopedia (NOT TO DEFINE YOUR
3.
What was the romantic connection
of the ocean liners of this period?
 Web Links:
1.
4.
5.
What do we learn about
technology and innovation through
the loss of this ship? (hint: Time article)
Define “Nostalgia”
 Dictionary (NOT ONLINE)
TERM)
 www.bbc.co.uk/history/titanic
 http://www.gc.noaa.gov/gcil_titanic-
history.html
 http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/13/whatthe-titanic-means-today/