Today we began by discussing Zach's assigned reading homework: excerpts from Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. We discussed how Diamond set up his research questions, the structure of his introduction, and then a thorough exploration into the conquests of the Conquistadors over the Incas in South America. Then we went over a chapter on invention and how some inventions are not brought out of necessity but out of curiosity and out of culminating factors within the society an inventor lives in. Next, Zach continued to write his creative writing assignment, an alternative narrative of 1984.