Ggs Chapter 1 And Reading Apprenticeship

Reading Apprenticeship: Metacognitive Scaffolding and Reading Non-Traditional Texts

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GGS: Chapter 1: Up To The Starting Line -- title’s significance:________________________________________________________ Vocabulary / chapter’s jargon:_______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Key word: _________ why? Implication is ________________ = _______________ __________________ But…next essential question: Does _________________ = _________________ Subtitle: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 BC? most important subtitle detail ____________________________why?________________________________ what does Diamond try to build a case for?______________________________________________________ [“earliest X theory” – whose approach & why a problem?] Africa 7 million years ago homo erectus=>homo sapiens

SE Asia 1 million years ago Java man

skeletal remains crude stone tools prey bones *****none are culture preserving no art, no music

Europe .5 million years ago homo neanderthalis larger brain bury dead care for sick crude stone tools

50,000 years ago: _______________________because 50,000 years ago________________+_______________+________________  single v. parallel evolution -- JD  parallel & multi-regional religion: Garden of Eden issue (why?)  range extensiongeographic rangewatercraft   megafaunal extinction Australia / New Guinea except Africa protohumans + megafaunal time to adapt (good or bad & why?) head start  1time to populate a continent w/pioneering colonists 2 time required to adapt to local conditions Verbal Equations: 1 2

population growth + site profusion = virgin land colonization == > animal extinction spasms (Australia / NG == no domesticables) land mass + environmental diversity = advantage??  Africa

Extra Credit: 1

Most historians (and consequently teachers of history) are OCD re: dates. Diamond does not use dates in the same way as most Eurocentric historians use them. How does Diamond use dates, and what importance do dates hold for Diamond in his larger deconstructionist / revisionist view of history?