Christianization of the Roman Empire — Diocletian's Persecution 303 CE through Constantine's Edict of Milan 313 CE through Theodosius's Edict of Thessalonica 380 CE — TRAUMA-INFORMED LESSON (MG-15 protocol active)

MG-15 8.5x11 inch double-sided trauma-informed protocol carried forward from G6-Fall and active for G6-Spring Lessons 4, 7, 10, 15, 19. FRONT: 48-hour-advance caregiver letter template explaining today's sensitive content (Diocletian's Christian persecution + post-Constantinian Christian counter-persecution of polytheists + Hypatia's death) and the trauma-informed protocols: opt-out, counselor co-presence, MG-9 Humanity-FIRST opening, MG-10 Resilience-FIRST opening AND close, Compassion Circle close, alternative reading available, no-homework-tonight policy. BACK: in-class protocol — Three Promises recited, Resilience-FIRST opening (each community's resilience and continuation named BEFORE the difficulty is named), sensitive content with MG-7 source-card analysis, Compassion Circle close (one word per student, no requirement to speak), Resilience-FIRST close. Style: clear, calm, classroom-display-ready typography.

16x24 inch classroom poster, deep-evergreen background with silver-gold serif text: 'WE PROMISE: When we study difficult content — persecution, plague, slavery, conquest, displacement — we name it honestly AND we open and close with resilience. Before naming the difficulty, we name the people's strength, art, family, religion, music, language, mathematics, science, and continuation. After naming the difficulty, we return to resilience. We never end a lesson on devastation alone.' Includes border motifs: olive branch (Late Roman), lotus (Gupta), bamboo (Han), pomegranate (Sasanian), Ge'ez cross (Aksum), ceiba tree (Maya). Frame: simple wood, classroom-display-ready.

8.5x11 inch double-sided protocol document carried forward from G6-Fall and updated for G6-Spring sensitive content. FRONT: 48-hour-advance caregiver letter template explaining that in Lesson [X — 4 / 7 / 10 / 15 / 19] the class will study sensitive content: Lesson 4 Diocletian's Christian persecution + post-Constantinian Christian counter-persecution of polytheists / Lesson 7 Justinianic Plague 541-549 CE with honest casualty content / Lesson 10 Indian caste-system origin with present-tense Dalit-perspective inclusion via Ambedkar's analysis / Lesson 15 Han Dynasty corvée labor + slavery / Lesson 19 Bantu-migration displacement narratives (with explicit framing that displacement-of-Khoisan by Bantu-language-speakers is itself contested and that Indigenous Khoisan-language-speakers ARE today across southern Africa). The letter explains the trauma-informed protocols: opt-out, counselor co-presence, Humanity-FIRST opening (MG-9), Resilience-FIRST opening AND close (MG-10), Compassion Circle close, family alternative reading. BACK: in-class protocol — Three Promises recited (MG-8 + MG-9 + MG-10), then Resilience-FIRST opening (each civilization's resilience and continuation named BEFORE the difficulty is named), then sensitive content with primary-source MG-7 source-card analysis, then Compassion Circle close (one word per student, no requirement to speak), then resilience-FIRST close (return to descendant-community present-tense).

8.5x11 inch laminated double-sided card. FRONT: 'MG-7 Ancient-and-Classical Source Card' header; 6 numbered questions: (1) SOURCING — Who created this source? When? Where? Why? (Wineburg Move 1); (2) CONTEXTUALIZATION — What was happening at the time and place this source was created? What had just happened? What was about to happen? (Wineburg Move 2); (3) CORROBORATION — Does another source from the same time and place agree or disagree? Is the creator a partisan? (Wineburg Move 3); (4) CLOSE READING — What does the source literally say in its words? What does it leave unsaid? (Wineburg Move 4); (5) LIVING DESCENDANTS — Who today is a living descendant of the people who created or were addressed by this source? How do they treat this source as a living heritage? (NMAI Essential Understanding 5 extended); (6) WHOSE TRANSLATION? WHOSE SILENCES? — Who translated this source into English and when? What perspective is MISSING from this source (e.g., the slave perspective on Diocletian's edicts, the dasi/dasa perspective on Ashoka's edicts)? (WHA / SHEG move). BACK: scaffolded sentence frames for each question; a short-form version (4 Wineburg-only questions) for students still building source-analysis stamina.

16x24 inch classroom poster, warm-amber background with deep-bronze serif text: 'WE PROMISE: Every person we study — emperor or enslaved, scribe or farmer, scholar or stonemason, named or anonymous — was first a human being. We say their names when we have them. We honor the anonymous when we don't. We refuse to reduce any person to a footnote, a statistic, or a chattel.' Includes silhouetted procession of named-and-anonymous figures across the bottom: emperor figure, enslaved figure carrying a stone block, scribe figure with bronze stylus, mother figure with child, farmer figure with sickle, monk figure with scroll. Frame: simple wood, classroom-display-ready.

MG-11 24x10 inch landscape timeline diagram: horizontal time axis 200 CE to 450 CE with 12 key events marked: (1) c. 30-100 CE Apostolic age; (2) 64 CE Nero's persecution; (3) c. 100-300 CE Christianity spreads as one Mediterranean religion among many; (4) 250 CE Decian persecution; (5) 303 CE Diocletian's Great Persecution; (6) 312 CE Battle of Milvian Bridge; (7) 313 CE Edict of Milan; (8) 325 CE Council of Nicaea; (9) 337 CE Constantine baptized on deathbed; (10) 361-363 CE Julian 'the Apostate' restores polytheism briefly; (11) 380 CE Theodosius's Edict of Thessalonica; (12) 391 CE Theodosius bans polytheist sacrifices; (13) 415 CE death of Hypatia. Visual cue: Christianity band starts thin (~10% c. 300 CE) and widens to dominant (~85% c. 450 CE). Parallel band: polytheist state cults declining. Style: clean educational, full color, dignified treatment of sensitive content.

24x10 inch landscape timeline diagram of the Christianization of the Roman Empire: horizontal time axis 200 CE to 450 CE with key events marked: (1) c. 30-100 CE Apostolic age — Jesus, Paul's letters, Gospels composed; (2) 64 CE Nero's persecution; (3) c. 100-300 CE Christianity spreads as one Mediterranean religion among many; (4) 250 CE Decian persecution; (5) 303 CE Diocletian's Great Persecution; (6) 312 CE Battle of Milvian Bridge — Constantine's victory + reported vision; (7) 313 CE Edict of Milan — toleration of Christianity; (8) 325 CE Council of Nicaea — Nicene Creed formulated; (9) 337 CE Constantine baptized on deathbed; (10) 361-363 CE Julian 'the Apostate' restores polytheism briefly; (11) 380 CE Theodosius's Edict of Thessalonica — Nicene Christianity established as state religion; (12) 391 CE Theodosius bans polytheist sacrifices; (13) 415 CE death of Hypatia of Alexandria in Christian-pagan-Jewish urban conflict. Visual cue: Christianity band starts thin (~10% of empire c. 300 CE) and widens to dominant (~85% c. 450 CE per Stark/Hopkins demographic estimates). Parallel band: polytheist state cults shown declining. Vertical gridlines every 25 years. Style: clean educational, full-color, 24x10 print resolution.

Modern photograph of the Great Synagogue of Rome (Tempio Maggiore di Roma) — the Roman Jewish community has been continuous since pre-Christian Republican Rome, ~2,200 years of unbroken presence. Image shows the synagogue's distinctive Aluminum-cube dome (built 1901-1904) on the Tiber River. Caption: 'The Roman Jewish community has been continuous since at least 161 BCE. Through Diocletian, Constantine, Theodosius, the fall of Rome, the medieval ghetto, the Holocaust, and to today. Resilience-FIRST.' Style: respectful documentary photograph.