hist.g7.f.ex_22
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-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.
Apply MG-7 Q1-7 to al-'Umari's 'Masalik al-Absar' 1342 excerpt (300 words) on Mansa Musa's Cairo visit. Focus on Q4 (close reading) + Q5 (corroboration with ibn Khaldun + ibn Battuta).
- Q4 close reading: al-'Umari interviewed Cairenes who remembered the 1324 visit.
- Q5 corroboration: ibn Khaldun's 1377 Muqaddimah account + Catalan Atlas 1375 Mansa Musa portrait + ibn Battuta's 1352-3 visit to Mali.
- Missing Q5 multi-source corroboration