Whose 20th Century? Whose Civil Rights? Whose Freedom? — Unit Launch + Five-Arc Atlas + TWELVE PROMISES

Display G8-Fall MG-23 I-STILL-WONDER chart from Lesson 20 capstone. Read aloud 3 selected G8-Fall wonderings (e.g. 'I still wonder how Reconstruction's unfinished business became the 20th century'). Bridge: 'This term we follow Reconstruction's unfinished business into the 20th century — and we say plainly: the Long Civil Rights Movement is MULTI-movement; the Holocaust is taught one name at a time; Hiroshima is taught in hibakusha own-voice; Vietnam is taught in Vietnamese own-voice; decolonization is taught in decolonial leaders' own voices.'

• Display G8-Fall MG-23 chart
• Read aloud 3 G8-Fall wonderings
• Recite TWELVE PROMISES from MG-5

Today launches the K-8 history capstone: 1898-present in five interlocking arcs. We carry forward SEVEN PROMISES from G8-Fall (slavery-as-primary-cause + Reconstruction-as-betrayed + multiple perspectives + Indigenous-present-tense + own-voice + refusing-euphemism + refusing-Lost-Cause) and add FIVE NEW: MG-14c HOLOCAUST-YAD-VASHEM 'each person has a name' + MG-14d HIBAKUSHA-OWN-VOICE + MG-14e VIETNAMESE-OWN-VOICE + MG-14f LONG-CIVIL-RIGHTS-MULTI-MOVEMENT (refuses MLK-only single-leader hagiography per Hall 2005) + MG-14g DECOLONIAL-OWN-VOICE (Gandhi + Nkrumah + Fanon + Mandela). Walk MG-2 Atlas (48x60 6-layer overlay) and MG-3 Strip (~80 events on FIVE color-coded arcs). Introduce MG-7 TWELVE-Q SOURCE CARD with NEW Q10 SURVIVOR-OWN-VOICE-CENTERED + Q11 MULTI-PERSPECTIVE-CHECK + Q12 PRESENT-CONNECTION. The capstone Lesson 22 mails a real letter to a real institution — Banks Level 4 SOCIAL ACTION.

• Numbers without names are not history.

  model Yad Vashem's 'each person has a name' pedagogy refuses dehumanizing statistic-only framing; 6M Jews murdered + 5M additional victims (Roma + Sinti + disabled + LGBTQ+ + Soviet POWs + political prisoners + Jehovah's Witnesses + Black Germans + Polish + Slavic) — each had a name, family, future.

  prompt Why MG-14c?
• Hagiography flattens history.

  model Long Civil Rights Movement per Hall 2005 is multi-movement (Black + Chicano + AIM + Asian American + LGBTQ+ + women + disability) and multi-decade (1909-present). We refuse 'MLK-only' single-leader hagiography. Ella Baker + Bayard Rustin + Fannie Lou Hamer + Diane Nash + Bob Moses + Septima Clark are co-leaders.

  prompt Why MG-14f?

• Name 3 of 5 thematic arcs.
• Recite MG-14d HIBAKUSHA-OWN-VOICE PROMISE in own words.
• How does Q10 extend the 9-question source card?

M-8-S-CHR-01-A Chart

36x96 inch wall banner; FIVE color-coded thematic arcs 1898-2026: blue Progressive-Imperial 1898-1920; red WWI-Roaring-Depression-WWII 1914-45; green Cold-War-Decolonization 1945-91; purple Long Civil Rights 1909-present; orange Globalization-Internet-Climate 1991-present; >=80 named events with date + 1-line caption + small portrait.

MG-3 Chart

MG-3 Deep-Time Strip — 36x96 inch banner; 1898-2026 timeline; FIVE THEMATIC ARCS color-coded: (1) Progressive Era + Imperial Reach 1898-1920 [blue]; (2) WWI + Roaring 20s + Depression + WWII 1914-45 [red]; (3) Cold War + Decolonization 1945-91 [green]; (4) Long Civil Rights Movement 1909-present [purple]; (5) Globalization + Internet + Climate 1991-present [orange]; >=80 named events with date + 1-line caption + small portrait when applicable.

M-8-S-CHR-01-B Diagram

18x24 laminated; explicit list of 12 promises with NEW MG-14c-d-e-f-g highlighted; sentence frames for student recitation; bilingual transliteration.

MG-5 Diagram

MG-5 TWELVE PROMISES poster (18x24 laminated) — explicit list: (1) Center multiple perspectives; (2) Refuse single-leader hagiography; (3) Use Indigenous nations' own names + present tense; (4) Use enslaved-people's own narratives; (5) Refuse euphemism (incarceration not internment; the n-word substituted; cultural genocide named); (6) Slavery-as-primary-cause (carried forward from G8-Fall MG-14a); (7) Reconstruction-as-betrayed-promise (carried forward from G8-Fall MG-14b); (8) HOLOCAUST-YAD-VASHEM-EACH-PERSON-HAS-A-NAME (NEW MG-14c); (9) HIBAKUSHA-OWN-VOICE (NEW MG-14d); (10) VIETNAMESE-OWN-VOICE (NEW MG-14e); (11) LONG-CIVIL-RIGHTS-MULTI-MOVEMENT (NEW MG-14f); (12) DECOLONIAL-OWN-VOICE (NEW MG-14g).

M-8-S-CHR-01-C Map

48x60 inch wall display; 6 layered overlay maps named in MG-2 global note; walk-through tour by teacher hand-pointing 5 highlights per overlay.

MG-2 Map

MG-2 TWENTIETH-CENTURY-WORLD Atlas — 48x60 inch wall display, 6 layered overlay maps: (1) European empires 1914 with colony shading + national resistance movements named on each colony; (2) WWI Western + Eastern fronts 1914-18 + Versailles 1919 boundary changes; (3) WWII European + Pacific theaters 1939-45 with Holocaust death-camp sites named (Auschwitz-Birkenau + Treblinka + Belzec + Sobibor + Chelmno + Majdanek) + Hiroshima + Nagasaki + Japanese American incarceration camps named (Manzanar + Tule Lake + Heart Mountain + Topaz + Minidoka + Poston + Gila River + Granada + Rohwer + Jerome); (4) Cold War 1947-91 + decolonization 1947-94 wave (India 1947 + Indonesia 1949 + Ghana 1957 + 1960 Year of Africa 17 nations + Algeria 1962 + Kenya 1963 + Vietnam 1954/1975 + Mozambique/Angola 1975 + Zimbabwe 1980 + Namibia 1990 + South Africa 1994); (5) US Civil Rights Movement geography Birmingham + Selma + Little Rock + Greensboro + Memphis + Tulsa Greenwood + Manzanar + Delano + Alcatraz + Wounded Knee + Stonewall NYC + East LA; (6) 21st-century globalization + climate (G20 + WTO + IPCC monitoring stations + 195 Paris Accord signatories 2015).

• Pairs: place 5 thematic-arc cards on MG-3 in correct sequence; identify Progressive-Imperial + Cold-War overlap with Civil-Rights arc.

  scaffold Color-coded arc cards + sentence frame 'Arc ___ runs from ___ to ___ and includes ___.'
• Each pair contributes one I-STILL-WONDER sticky to MG-6 carrying forward G8-Fall wonderings.

  scaffold Sentence frame 'I wonder how ___ connects to ___ across the 20th century.'

• Name the FIVE THEMATIC ARCS.
• State TWO NEW PROMISES added in G8-Spring.
• Apply Q11 MULTI-PERSPECTIVE CHECK to one Atlas event.

• Restate today's compelling question
• Add 1 sticky to MG-6
• Preview Lesson 2: Progressive Era reforms

• Talk with a caregiver about where their family was in 1900 + 1945 + 2000 + 2026; bring 1 sentence per date.