Promise Recitation

Sovereignty Promise — unit-wide standing-recital poster carried over from G2-Fall through G4-Spring and intensified for G5-Fall. Five-line text: 'I promise to use PRESENT TENSE for Indigenous nations. The Wampanoag ARE. The Powhatan ARE. The Haudenosaunee ARE. The Cherokee ARE. Every nation we study this year IS sovereign and present today.' Side panel lists the 30+ nations the unit names. Style: dignified scroll layout.

Humanity-First Promise — paired with MG-8 for trauma-informed lessons on slavery (Lessons 9, 10, 13, 16, 19). Five-line text: 'When we learn about chattel slavery, we begin with the HUMANITY of the enslaved person — their name (if known), their family, their place of origin, their resistance, their dignity. We never reduce a human being to a number, a price, or a victim alone.' Style: dignified scroll layout matching MG-8.

Resilience-First Promise — paired with MG-8 and MG-9 for trauma-informed lessons. Five-line text: 'When we learn about hard history — the Middle Passage, the Slave Codes, the Trail of Tears, the Pequot War — we open with RESILIENCE. We name what enslaved people, what Indigenous nations, what oppressed communities created and built and sustained. Resilience comes FIRST, then we tell the harm, then we close with resilience again.' Style: dignified scroll layout matching MG-8 and MG-9.