If you are working on Section Five, you can consider this quarter a success with regard to making sufficient progress with your writing. This assignment calls for a response to your independent reading. As the directions note, this should not be a restatement of the book's plot or ideas, but instead an exploration of the ideas in the text. You should use the book, the ideas contained in the book, as a starting point, or a springboard for your essay. In many ways, this is similar to the response to the essay you summarized, but developed in greater depth and detail.