How to write a strong hebdomadal: learning from history

It can be difficult to describe what I am looking for in a hebdomadal, and it can be especially difficult to characterize the range of answers that can respond effectively to the topic. It might be worth looking over some examples of strong hebdomadals I posted, early last semester, to illustrate the sorts of answers that were working well. Obviously these students were coping with a different topic and with different texts, but the style of these short responses is nonetheless illutrative. Here, then, are two posts giving examples of strong hebdomadals: post one, post two.