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MG-9 Living-Descendant Promise poster (continued from G6-Spring). 18x24 inch wall poster. Black-and-white photo plate of descendant-tradition communities from each medieval-world civilization studied: (a) modern Iraqi family; (b) modern Andalusian Spanish family + Sephardic-descendant family; (c) modern Chinese family; (d) modern Malian family; (e) modern Mongolian family; (f) modern Nahua family; (g) modern Greek family + modern Turkish family + modern Coptic family; (h) modern Persian Iranian family + modern Parsi family. Caption: 'These civilizations have living descendants. We speak about their ancestors in the present tense whenever the descendants of that civilization continue today.'

MG-10 Humanity-FIRST Promise poster (continued from G6-Spring). 18x24 inch wall poster. Side-by-side primary-source plates: (left) Surah al-Fatiha calligraphy; (center-left) Confucian Analects opening passage in classical Chinese; (center-right) Mali oral epic Sundiata opening; (right) Aztec/Mexica Five Sun cosmology. Caption: 'Every civilization has families, food, work, play, prayer, beauty, art, sorrow, joy. We see HUMANITY first before we see DIFFERENCE.'

MG-11 Resilience-FIRST Promise poster (continued from G6-Spring). 18x24 inch wall poster. Two-panel composite: (left) historic destruction — illustration of 1258 Sack of Baghdad with explicit note 'civilizational continuity through trauma'; (right) contemporary resilience — photo of Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library in Timbuktu with manuscripts saved 2012 + photo of Hagia Sophia 2020 reopening + photo of Templo Mayor museum Mexico City with Indigenous-language signage. Caption: 'No civilization is defined by its destruction or decline. Resilience is the rule, not the exception.'

MG-12 Connection-FIRST Promise poster (NEW for G7-Fall). 18x24 inch wall poster. Network diagram showing the medieval Afro-Eurasian network with thick connection lines: Toledo Translation Movement (Cordoba-Toledo-Paris); ibn Battuta route (Tangier-Mecca-Mali-China-Maldives); Pax Mongolica trade (Karakorum-Beijing-Tabriz-Caffa-Venice); Black Death diffusion (Central Asia → Caffa → Mediterranean → Northern Europe + Cairo + Damascus + Maghreb); Mansa Musa hajj (Niani-Timbuktu-Cairo-Mecca-Cairo-Niani); Indian Ocean monsoon trade (Quanzhou-Calicut-Aden-Mombasa). Caption: 'Civilizations were CONNECTED, not isolated. Refuse the silo.'

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.