Thursday, June 12, 2008
AP World History- Mr. Farrelly
Welcome to the blog for Mr. Farrelly's AP World History class. We will be using this website throughout the summer of 2008 and the 2008-09 school year to explore and discuss world history. Please check back regularly for posts and resources from me and your fellow classmates, and join in on the discussion yourself!
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why r u confused. the point id u noe that u write questions there. i dun think its dat hard 2 understand.
hey....
Cool so what do we do now? Just read? Then...lol
So I am glad to see a few students have dived into the blog. I will write a post that will clear up any confusion. Please inform your peers that they should sign up soon. Again any questions or comments that you do not want to be seen, please email me.
i have a question:
whos "athena"? i mean the student..
Hey peeps, I finally got in
lol. Athena is Catherine lol, me. lol Because he said we could do the fake name thing?
Mister, when are you going to put up the discussion questions? I'm dieing to do them.
ohh this is so cooool.
you know ironically the book is not that bad ^_^
yea..thats true. it really not that boring theres actually interesting parts =)
can we discuss smthn alreadyy??
what's good you guys. It's going to be so hard not to talk in shorthand/im jargon. I haven't started reading the book yet book im going to. It's just sitting there on my bed staring back at me yelling punk. Im just afraid to pick up the book because once i do i cant read another book.total committment you know?
who's yeamuthahid?
lady Jass is Jasmine right? i'm so slow.
i think yeamuthahid is that kid with glasses. i dont know. what can i say. the book is sitting on my bed too. i want to eat it!
do we have to read all parts of the prologue????????????
you guys are funny. =D
lol I finally got on, I was busy these past couple of days, so yea, I'm going to start reading that book now
Oh my goodness! Why are some of you guys dying for the questions? You must be out of your mind to want to start answering questions already!
Hello!
why hasn't he posted anything yet? his wife is pregnant right? im having trouble reading the book and juust passed the prologue now im on page 42
im winning. ive posted more time than even mr.farrelly!
im am hopeless...~_~
omg finally i did it yay me i've been trying for the longest i even asked catherine for help hehe
when are the questions going to show? .... anyways, this book actually doesn't seem really boring... the prologue is , my opinion, probably the most boring part of the book. For those of you who haven't started reading... you should start or else it will pile up and at the end..... you won't have enought time to finish it
i hope you guys are reading, that book isnt as bad as it seems. I cant believe im actually enjoying the book. :D
Im only up to page 62 though...
COMMENT NOW!!! D:<
how much longer?
hey guys
i'm up to cap 2 and i haven't touched the book in weeks! just looking at the book hurts my brains
<3
i'm confused....where's the questions?
the questions are in the back of the book if you have the one that you got Mr.Farrelly to order for you.
i havent been reading lately... so my blog hasent been updated...
COMMENT!!! >l:(
no I mean the questions to discuss
and no i don't have the question in the back of the book...i have a hard cover so people plz post them!
Love ya if u do
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hahah damn.
i think mr. farrelly is busy with his baby coming soon and stuff.
i haven't touched the book in literally like a month.
HOORAYYYY.
ohhhh... well i dont know...
im chock-full-of stupidity!!1!!one!
:D
[ill post them up as soon as i find my book...]
COMMENT!!! >:o
Here u go love:
1.What aur the other commonly espoused answers to "Yali's question," and how does Jared Diamond adress and refute each of them?
2.Why does Diamond hypothesize that the New Guineans might be, on the average,"smarter" than the Westerners?
3.Why is it important to differentiate between proximate and ultimate causes?
4.Do you find some of Diamond's methodologies more compelling than others?Which, and why?
5.What is the importance of the order of the chapters? Why, for example, is "Collision at Cajamarca"-which describes events that occur thousands of years after those described in the subsequent chapters-placed where it is?
6.How are the Polynesian Islands "an experiment of history? What conclusions does Diamond draw from their history?
7.How does Diamond challenge our assumptions about the transition from hunter-gathering to farming?
8.How is farming an "auto-catalytic" process? How does this account for the great disparities in societies, as well as for the possibilities of parallel evolution?
9.Why did almonds prove domesticable while acorns were not? What significance does this have?
10.How does Diamond explain the fact that domesticable American apples and grapes were not domesticated until the arrival of Europeans?
11.What were the advantages enjoyed by the Fertile Crescent that allowed it to be the earliest site of development for most of the building blocks of civilization? How does Diamond explain the fact that it was nevertheless Europe and not Southwest Asia that ended up sreading its culture to the rest of the world?
12.How does Diamond refute the argument that the faliure to domesticate certain animals arose from cultural differences? What does the modern failure to domesticate, for example, the enland suggest about the reasons why some peoples independently developed domestic animals and others are not?
13.What is the importance of the "Anna Karenina principle"?
14.How does comparing mutations help one trace the spread of agriculture?
15.How does civilization lead to epidemics?
16.How does Diamond's theory that invention is, in fact, the mother of necessity bear upon the traditional "heroic" model of invention?
17.According to Diamond, how does religion evolve along with increasingly complex societies?
18.How is linguistic evidence used to draw conclusions about the spread of peoples in China, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Africa?
19.What is the significance of the differing outcomes of Austronesian expansion in Indonesia and New Guinea?
20.How does Diamond explain China's striking unity and Europe's persistent disunity? What cosequences do these conditions have for world histioy?
21.How does Diamond refute the charge that Australia is proof that differences in the fates of human societies are a matter of people and not environment? In what other areas of the world could Diamond's arguement be used?
22.What aspects of Diamond's evidence do lay readers have to take on faith? Which aspects are explained?
23.Diamond offers two tribes, the Chimbu and the Daribi, as examples of differing receptivities to innovation. Do you think he would accept larger, continent-wide differences in receptivity? Why or why not? How problematic might cultural factors prove for Diamond's arguments?
24.How, throughout the book, does Diamond address the issues he discusses in the last few pages of his final chapter, when he proposes a science of human history?
These are all the questions............... you DO know what to do, right...... if not, .........
you have to choose two questions and for each of them, write a 2-3page response. So that would be like about 4-6 pages in total.
you are teh awesomeness!!
that must've taken 4eva to type up! :D
COMMENT!!!!! D:<
..."love"?...
iknow.... never mind about "love"... she knows what im talking about
hi everyone, what page are u guys up to o.o
heyyy guys!
I wonder when these discussion questions are going to come.
I'm up to page 74 and I'm having a little trouble writing the thesis at the end of each chapter. -_-
so does anyone know what's the reason mr. farrelly inst posting anything
He had his newborn girl just today !!!!
if its anything we went through, hes going to have a pretty hectic schedule.
COMMENT!!! -/w\-
If plants are able to adapt to the enviornment, then why is that some plants are not able to grow in other areas?
Make sure you are looking at the main blog site: http://apfarrelly.blogspot.com/ to engage in the discussion questions. I love seeing the interaction here, hopefully it will overflow on to the questions.
I'm sorry if my questions don't really relate much to the topic, maybe only agriculture. If it is possible to grow crops of areas in americas than why can't most of the different types of crops grow anywhere else as muc as the americas? My questions like to do with agriculture because I like to think of how the world spread first inside of how it got killed first.
sorry guys. i was on vacation and i never had the chance to get on. in addition to that i dont have internet anymore so im currently at the library. i did read the book though. but dont cry guys im here. by the way mister, your daughter is cute. lmao. take care guys.
p.s i got a lot of discussion questions to get through lol.
hey guys. I have a question on my blog.
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