Assignment:
The Seventeenth Century: The Age of Revolution
• For your initial discussion post, you should:
o select one of the questions below:
- How does the literature evidence the political changes occurring during this era?
- How does the literature express the cultural norms of this era?
- In what ways does this literature differ significantly from other eras of literature you have studied in this course?
- How do religious beliefs drive changes represented within the literature?
- In what ways may the literature of this era be responding, questioning, or answering the works of other writers or eras?
o write a well developed paragraph around 250 to 300 words that answers the question and includes:
- a clearly defined topic sentence
- at least one MLA formatted quotation from the assigned readings of literature for this module
- three or more sentences that explain how the quotation supports the topic sentence
o Be careful not to confuse editorial sections of the assigned readings with the literature (poems, stories, sermons, speeches, essays, etc.)