CAPSTONE — Renaissance-to-1750 Inquiry Exhibit — Foxfire 3-copy storybook + civic-action letter to descendant-community institutions, with multi-perspective storytelling across MEXICA + INCA + MAYA + PUEBLO + AFRICAN + MUGHAL + MING/QING + TOKUGAWA + OTTOMAN + ITALIAN/REFORMATION-EUROPEAN perspectives applying the FIVE PROMISES — Living-Descendant + Humanity-FIRST + Resilience-FIRST + Connection-FIRST + NEW Encounter-from-MULTIPLE-Perspectives
Exercise Difficulty 5 ~90 min hist.g7.s.ex_55

Capstone Synthesis

MG-7 Diagram
EIGHT-Question Source Card — laminated 8.5x11 double-sided REPLACING G7-Fall 7-Question Source Card with NEW 8th questio

EIGHT-Question Source Card — laminated 8.5x11 double-sided REPLACING G7-Fall 7-Question Source Card with NEW 8th question for G7-Spring multi-perspective encounter analysis. All 7 G7-Fall questions retained + Q8 ENCOUNTER MULTI-PERSPECTIVE: From whose perspective is this encounter told? Whose perspective is missing? How would the same event read from the missing perspective? Includes sentence frames in English + Spanish + Nahuatl/Quechua/Persian/Arabic transliteration glossaries; available in 14pt dyslexic font + audio version.

MG-13 Diagram
DECOLONIAL TOOLKIT poster — 18x24 inch wall poster summarizing Mignolo + Quijano + Santos + Tuck + Yang + Smith decoloni

DECOLONIAL TOOLKIT poster — 18x24 inch wall poster summarizing Mignolo + Quijano + Santos + Tuck + Yang + Smith decolonial moves. FOUR DECOLONIAL MOVES: (1) Refuse single-modernity narrative; (2) Name coloniality alongside modernity (modernity/coloniality couplet); (3) Center suppressed epistemologies; (4) Attend to ongoing afterlives. Each move illustrated with a Lesson-application example. Critical anchor: Tuck + Yang 2012 'decolonization is not a metaphor' — material land/sovereignty/repatriation refused as mere classroom rhetoric.

MG-14 Diagram
RESTALL SEVEN MYTHS poster — 24x36 inch laminated naming all 7 myths of the Spanish Conquest per Restall 2003 with named

RESTALL SEVEN MYTHS poster — 24x36 inch laminated naming all 7 myths of the Spanish Conquest per Restall 2003 with named scholarly refutations: (1) Myth of exceptional men — refuted by collective politics; (2) Myth of the king's army — refuted by private contracts; (3) Myth of the white conquistadors — refuted by Black + Indigenous + mestizo participants; (4) Myth of completion — refuted by ongoing resistance Pueblo 1680/Itzá 1697/Tupac Amaru II 1780; (5) Myth of (mis)communication — refuted by Townsend on Malintzin; (6) Myth of native desolation — refuted by population continuity and resilience; (7) Myth of superiority — refuted by smallpox + alliance + Indigenous tactics. Each myth shows refusal sentence frames.

Prompt

CAPSTONE: Write a 6-8-page storybook chapter 'Renaissance-to-1750 in Many Voices' integrating at least 3 civilizations + at least 1 Indigenous-voiced source + at least 1 African-voiced source + applying MG-7 Source Card sourcing + MG-13 Decolonial Toolkit + MG-14 Restall SEVEN MYTHS refusal + NMAI present-tense protocol. Then mail civic-action letter to chosen descendant-community institution. Complete 5-star self-reflection (I-LEARNED + I-CAN + I-STILL-WONDER + WHAT-I-WILL-DO + WHO-I-AM-AS-HISTORIAN).

M-7-S-CAP-22-A Diagram Physical / non-image

18x24 inch wall poster MG-24 showing 4-criterion rubric — Multi-Perspective + Present-Tense + Claim-Evidence-Warrant + Civic-Action Letter Quality; plus 5th star Self-Reflection.

How it's presented
mode text
Answer criteria
type rubric capstone
rubric
points
15
criterion
MULTI-PERSPECTIVE — 3+ civilizations integrated
points
10
criterion
INDIGENOUS VOICE — 1+ named Indigenous primary source
points
10
criterion
AFRICAN VOICE — 1+ named African primary source
points
10
criterion
PRESENT-TENSE LIVING-DESCENDANT VOICING per NMAI
points
10
criterion
CLAIM-EVIDENCE-WARRANT ARGUMENT structure
points
5
criterion
MG-7 Source Card applied to 1+ source
points
5
criterion
MG-13 Decolonial Toolkit applied
points
5
criterion
MG-14 Restall SEVEN MYTHS refusal applied
points
5
criterion
MG-13a Multi-Perspective-Encounter applied
points
10
criterion
CIVIC-ACTION LETTER drafted + mailed to named descendant-community institution
points
10
criterion
5-STAR SELF-REFLECTION I-LEARNED + I-CAN + I-STILL-WONDER + WHAT-I-WILL-DO + WHO-I-AM-AS-HISTORIAN
points
5
criterion
Foxfire 3-copy bound distribution
Hints
  1. Use Capstone planning worksheet from L21 hw.
  2. Draw on all 17 prior skills + 5 PROMISES.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Failing to integrate 3+ civilizations
  • Missing Indigenous OR African voice
  • Treating any living people as past-tense
  • Missing civic-action letter or 5-star self-reflection