Term Paper – 20%:
I like Merriam-Webster's definition of the term paper: "a major written assignment in a school or college course representative of a student's achievement during a term" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/term%20paper). But I should caution you here: I'm not looking for a conventional research paper. I'm looking for something you can't finish writing before late in the term, and something you won't be able to write effectively if you don't get started writing right away.
Now, all you need do is ask yourself: what are you going to achieve this term?
First of all, you're going to read a number of poems and some prose written in England during the seventeenth century. Keep a reading diary. Write at least some extended comment on at least one of the assigned readings for every class.
Describe what you learn on the days you lead class. This might be your opportunity to tell me what you wish you had done, what you forgot to do, what you planned to do but then didn't do for some reason, etc. But if you wait even a couple of days after you lead class you'll find this a very difficult component of your term paper to write.
There will probably be days when the professor or one of your classroom peers say something you disagree with. Write in down, polish it up, and include it in your term paper. Please do not identify the other student if you go that route, but as with the texts we read limit yourself to the words expressed and largely ignore the author. If it's the professor with whom you disagree or from whom you've taken offense, etc., please feel free to name him. He's a right dork, anyway.
Comment on the shape and the trajectory of the course, the amount of work you're doing, your desire to read more or less of seventeenth-century English prose or verse, etc. Ideas that are particularly interesting for you, etc. These inclinations and intuitions are fleeting, and if you don't write them down as you experience them, you won't be able to recover them.
Maybe, in short, the term paper requirement could be called an English 2283.X2 journal.
There's no page limit, but I'm going to require you--probably--to submit it twice. I expect to read a continuous narrative when I read your term paper, and I'm requiring you to force at least three different genres--reading journal, class presentation, and "daily" journal--into a single narrative structure. That's going to be hard to do, and it'll be especially hard to do well. So I'm going to help, as I can.