This essay asks you to write about ONE of the three documents below. You are asked to explain its historical context, its significance, and how you respond to it and the insights it offers.
Context: how does the document fit into the broader period in which it was written?
Significance: why is the document historically important?
Your response: how do you interpret its content? How does the document help you understand the issues it addresses and the period more generally?
(These are prompts for your reading of the document – you do not need to follow them in the structure of the essay. They do however form marking criteria that will be applied).
You will probably need to look at some other sources to contextualist the document accurately and to get a good idea of the period and issues to which it relates. In this case, you will need to include footnotes and a bibliography. Most of your attention, however, will be on the document itself and your reading of it.