Compelling Question Generation

Unit-opener anchor: a richly layered illustration of the Atlantic World c.1763 (just after the French and Indian War) showing four continents in warm watercolor — West Africa with the Kingdoms of Kongo, Dahomey, Asante, Oyo, and the Senegambian coast labeled; Europe with Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, and Britain labeled and color-coded; North America with the Spanish (Florida, New Mexico, California Missions entry), French (Canada, Louisiana), Dutch (former New Netherland), and English (13 Colonies plus Hudson's Bay) territorial claims shown via translucent color overlays; the Caribbean and Brazil sugar islands shown; the 13 Colonies highlighted; the routes of the Triangular Trade shown as three curving arrows (manufactures from Europe to Africa; enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas via the Middle Passage; sugar/tobacco/rice from Americas to Europe); 12 medallions around the perimeter representing the 12 voices of the Founding Documents Exhibit (Wampanoag / Powhatan / Haudenosaunee Clan Mother / Middle-Passage enslaved African / Chesapeake-plantation enslaved African American / Free Black Bostonian Crispus Attucks / Phillis Wheatley / Olaudah Equiano / Abigail Adams / Mercy Otis Warren / Loyalist Ann Hulton / Working-class shoemaker Patriot George Robert Twelves Hewes); the Founding Contradiction T-chart MG-13 ribbon curves across the bottom; in the center of the continent stands a multi-generation circle of children representing 12 cultural traditions visible on the unit's read-aloud canon. Style: detail-rich line work with warm watercolor wash, Atlantic-World scale, no Disney exaggeration, no romantic-savage tropes, no triumphal European arrival imagery; the Middle Passage is shown as a curving arrow with the Brookes-ship outline at the base of the arrow but treated with dignity and a small accompanying line 'Remember.'