Trace the Byzantine Empire 527-1453 CE from Justinian's Code and Hagia Sophia through the East-West Schism 1054 and the Fourth Crusade 1204 to the fall of Constantinople 1453 — refusing the 'Eastern remnant' framing in favor of Byzantium as ONE-THOUSAND-PLUS-YEAR Roman continuation
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~12 min hist.g7.f.ex_06

Source Card Analysis

MG-7 Diagram
MG-7 SEVEN-QUESTION SOURCE CARD — primary instructional scaffold for ALL source analysis in the unit. 8.5x11 inch double

MG-7 SEVEN-QUESTION SOURCE CARD — primary instructional scaffold for ALL source analysis in the unit. 8.5x11 inch double-sided laminated card. Front: Seven questions with sentence-frame scaffolds. (1) WHO created this source? (Wineburg sourcing) (2) WHEN was it created and where? (Wineburg contextualization) (3) WHY was it created and for whom? (Wineburg sourcing — purpose + audience) (4) WHAT does it say + show + leave out? (Wineburg close reading) (5) WHAT do OTHER sources say? (Wineburg corroboration) (6) WHOSE living descendants connect to this source today? (NMAI 5th — present-tense protocol) (7) WHOSE GOLDEN AGE does this source name — and whose golden age does it occlude? (NEW G7-Fall 7th — Banks Level-3 transformative move; refuses single-narrative golden-age framing). Back: scaffolded sentence frames for each question.

Prompt

Apply MG-7 Q1-7 to Doukas Historia Turco-Byzantina excerpt + Tursun Beg Tarih-i Ebu'l-Feth excerpt side-by-side on the 1453 Fall of Constantinople. Identify: AGREED FACTS, POLO-EMBELLISHED-style Doukas embellishments, Tursun-Beg-embellished, SOURCE-SILENT.

How it's presented
mode text
Answer criteria
type structured response rubric
rubric
Q1-7 each scored 0-2. Total 14 points. 12+ = mastery; 8-11 = practicing; <8 = reteach. Specific Q5 corroboration component = 4 of those points.
Hints
  1. Doukas writes from Genoese-Byzantine refugee perspective; Tursun Beg from Ottoman court-historian perspective.
  2. AGREED FACTS = both confirm Constantine died fighting at the walls; both confirm Hagia Sophia conversion May 30; both confirm Mehmed II's military leadership.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Treating one source as 'correct' and the other as 'wrong' — instead corroborate
Used in lessons