Before the class started or during the first week, your instructor put an announcement in your Blackboard class, telling you which recommended book you’d need. Gun, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond OR The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human

Humanities class please use pdf book in a previous post. The Human Story chapters 16-18. 
 
Before the class started or during the first week, your instructor put an announcement in your Blackboard class, telling you which recommended book you’d need.
Gun, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
OR
The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon by Stephen Sass (recommended)

Over the course of the block/semester, you will be asked to read two selections from that book.
The selections will a chapter or 15-20 pages.
You will summarize the selection; the summary should be one-two pages.

The summary should be ONLY the ideas in the text – your opinions and ideas should not be in this section.  Your ideas and opinions will be in the response section.

Next, you write a response. 
For the response, you should ask yourself what the ideas or facts are that made the biggest impact on you.

Were you surprised? 
Did you learn something that is different from something you already knew? 

Then, you explore your own reaction – why is the idea or face you’re presenting the one that really resonated with you? 

Your response should be one page or less.

This essay will be APA 6th ed. formatted with a cover page and a references page.
This assignment will have two submission portals built in. 

The first submission portal for each assignment is to check your summary to ensure that your sentences are not too close to the original. 
You are responsible for making any corrections where you have problems with paraphrasing and/or citation.