Synthesize and evaluate your thoughts and response. Researching and preparing for a discussion helps to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of a collaborative discussion. To start forming your response, write down your initial thoughts on your chosen topic.
Here are some questions you can consider when formulating your thesis:
1. How did historical events affect American literature? (Sample question: How did the Civil War affect American Literature?)
2. How did the Civil War transform American literature?
3. Does literature affect history?
4. What events were affected by literature?
5. How does history affect current pieces of writing? Or does it only affect literature from the same period?

Which resource might provide a student who is just starting a research project with a list of credible sources of information to consult? o a. a biography of an early computer scientist o b. an article on new developments in computing o c. a book about programming languages o d. an online encyclopedia article or wiki

What does manns conclusion in "coming of age in the dawnland" indicate about how the settlements and people of sixteenth-century new england reacted to the increasing presence of europeans?

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.