Essay Question: Explain how Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiograph…

Essay Question: Explain how Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography reveals him to be a man of the Enlightenment.   To answer this prompt, you will need to indicate an understanding of the Enlightenment and of the Autobiography.   Use specific evidence from the text to support your claims.    A strong answer will begin with a thesis statement supported with  4-5 specific ways.  All evidence will be taken from the Autobiography, “A Way to Wealth,” and class handouts. No credit will be given for knowledge outside of class material. Use paragraph form in answering this discussion question.

Identify the author and title to which the following selecti…

Identify the author and title to which the following selection belongs.  ALSO, in 2-3 sentences explain the meaning and significance of the selection to the whole work: Then, coming out, beheld a space The flame consume my dwelling place. And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so ’twas just.  It was His own, it was not mine, Far be it that I should repine.