There are two parts to this week’s assignment. As always, your answers can be short (a few words or sentences). You may also write longer answers, if you wish to do so.
Part I
Franklin highlights 4 main themes – industry, care, frugality, and knowledge – in the reading.
Which theme do you think would be most important for obtaining wealth in colonial America?
Which theme do you think would be least important for obtaining wealth in colonial America?
Part II
Choose:
one specific quote that you think is still relevant to modern-day life
one specific quote that you think is no longer relevant to (of limited value in) modern-day life