GROW · Week 5 of 8

How Big a Deal?

Humanities · Migration & the Making of Modern Teesside

Progress SoW · Humanities Aut 1 · 2026–27 · GROW · Week 5

Enquiry: How can criteria, perspective and timescale produce a defensible “it depends” judgement about significance?

Success looks like

I can judge significance using named criteria
I can show significance DEPENDS on perspective or timescale
I can qualify my judgement with 'although' or 'depends'

Aspire · LAUNCH reach: build the strongest case for the OPPOSITE ranking, then answer it.

Teacher Print Tools — Week 5

Arrival Task

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. People (Last week)

Agency or context: 'the railway already reached the site'?

Context.

2. Tests (Recall)

Name two significance tests.

Numbers, depth, duration, memory.

3. Judge (Recall)

What is a criterion?

A named standard for judging.

4. Local (Recall)

When did the Redcar furnace go cold?

2015.

1. Retrieval (Last week)

Give one 'count the unnamed' phrase.

'A crew of miners' / 'thousands of households'.

2. Perspective (Think)

Same event, different groups — why different verdicts?

Impacts land unevenly; perspective shifts the weights.

3. Timescale (Think)

Why re-judge significance at 10 vs 100 years?

Effects mature or fade; duration re-ranks events.

4. Language (Recall)

The historian's qualifying word?

'Although' (and 'depends', defended).

1. Retrieval (Last week)

Distributed agency in one line.

Achievement spread across many evidenced actors.

2. Criteria clash (Think)

Numbers says X, memory says Y. What now?

Name both, weight them for the enquiry, verdict anyway.

3. Whose memory (Think)

Memory test — whose memory counts, and who curates it?

Communities differ; commemoration is chosen — interrogate the curator.

4. Meta (Think)

Can 'it depends' be a strong answer? Condition?

Yes — if the dependencies are named and weighed.

Starter

Starter: The Verdict That Splits the Room

Key Question: 'The 2015 closure was the most significant event in Teesside's history.' Half the room can defend it; half can demolish it. Both halves can be right — if they name their criteria.

🔥

The Case For

Depth here: identity, income, era ended

Depth + memory

⛏️

The Case Against

1850 made the town exist at all

Numbers + duration

👥

The Split

Steel families vs newcomers vs students

Perspective

⏳

The Re-judge

Ask again in 2115

Timescale

Pick a side in pairs — but you must NAME the criterion your side leans on before you argue.

I Do

I Do: Criteria Plus Perspective

Key Idea: A defensible judgement names its criteria AND its standpoint: significant by which tests, for whom, over what span?

👀 Look: name your tests AND where you are standing. A verdict with no standpoint is half an answer.

📖 The Full Frame

Criteria — Numbers · depth · duration · memory — declared up front.

Perspective — For whom: steel families, newcomers, the nation.

Timescale — Over what span: the decade, the century, so far.

🧠 Watch me think — the frame assembles

🛠️ Verdict 1 — “By depth, for Teesside’s steel families, over the decade since — the closure ranks first.”

🛠️ Verdict 2 — “By numbers and duration, for the town as a whole, over two centuries — 1850 keeps the crown.”

✅ Answer: two verdicts, zero contradiction. Same facts, different frames — and both frames are DECLARED. That is what makes them arguments rather than opinions.

We Do

We Do: Which Part of the Frame?

How to play: Tap a phrase from a significance argument, then tap the frame-part it declares. Score: 0/8

Step 1: Tap an item · Step 2: Tap its group

'…by the numbers test…'

'…for the steel families…'

'…over the century since…'

'…judged on memory…'

'…seen from London…'

'…in the first decade…'

'…for newcomers to the town…'

'…so far — the effects are young…'

📐 CRITERION

👥 PERSPECTIVE

⏳ TIMESCALE

I Do

I Do: The Defensible 'It Depends'

Key Idea: 'It depends' is strong exactly when the dependencies are named, weighed, and closed with a verdict anyway.

📖 Depends, Done Right

Name — 'It depends on criterion and standpoint…'

Weigh — '…for THIS enquiry, depth outweighs numbers because…'

Verdict — '…so, framed that way: the closure ranks first.'

🧠 Watch me think

Lazy: 'it depends, so who can say.' GROW: 'It depends on the test — and our enquiry asks about lived impact HERE, so depth is the right test, so the closure outranks 1850 for this question.' The dependency became the argument. That's the move your assessed piece will need in Week 7.

We Do

We Do: Match the Verdict → Its Declared Frame

How to play: Tap a card, then tap its correct partner. Score: 0/6

'Closure first'

'1850 first'

'Railway first'

'Bridge first'

'WW2 yards first'

'Too soon to rank 2015'

Duration · the nation · the railway age

Depth · steel families · the decade since

Numbers+duration · whole town · two centuries

Timescale objection · effects still young

Depth · every wartime family · the 1940s

Memory · the town's identity · still counting

Independent Work

Independent Work — Show What You Know

Instructions: Work at your level on the printed sheet. Move up a level when you are ready — this is your call to make.

Supported

Task: Frame strips: build two different verdicts about the closure using the criterion/perspective/timescale strips.

Steps: Assemble verdict 1 · assemble verdict 2 · say why both can stand.

Standard

Task: Write the double verdict: closure vs 1850, each with full declared frame, then your weighted pick for a NAMED enquiry.

Steps: Verdict A framed · verdict B framed · enquiry named · weighting sentence · final pick.

Stretch

Task: Interrogate the memory test itself: whose commemoration counts on Teesside, who curates it, and how that shifts one ranking.

Steps: Memory audit (statues, names, museums) · curator question answered · one ranking re-run with the audit applied.

Lundy Loop

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in This Enquiry

Why: Article 12 — your view on this history counts, and it changes what we do next week.

🚪 SPACE

The Verdicts Wall holds contradictory rankings side by side — contradiction with frames is the display.

📣 VOICE

Deliver your weighted verdict to the room in 60 seconds; the room may challenge only the FRAME, not the taste.

👥 AUDIENCE

Steel-family voices: this week's verdicts are shared with the community partners who visit at showcase.

⭐ INFLUENCE

The class's chosen enquiry question becomes the actual title of Week 7's assessed account.

Exit Ticket

Instructions: Answer independently. No notes.

1.

Name the three parts of the full frame.

Criteria, perspective, timescale.

2.

Two verdicts disagree but both stand. How?

Different declared frames.

3.

Which criterion favours the 1850 find?

Numbers (and duration).

1.

Write a one-line verdict with all three frame-parts declared.

E.g. 'By depth, for steel families, over the decade — closure first.'

2.

When is 'it depends' strong?

When dependencies are named, weighed, and closed with a verdict.

3.

Why might 2015 be 'too soon to rank'?

Duration/memory tests need time to run.

1.

Whose memory does the memory test measure — and who curates it?

Commemoration is chosen; interrogate statues, names, museums.

2.

How does perspective interact with Week 4's distributed agency?

Both redistribute — credit and impact land unevenly by group.

3.

Set the frame you'd use for Week 7's assessed account, and defend it.

Any declared frame + defence tied to the chosen enquiry.

Knowledge Organiser (GROW W5): How Big a Deal?

Humanities Aut 1 · 2026–27 · Enquiry: How can criteria, perspective and timescale produce a defensible “it depends” judgement about significance?

Key Word	Definition
Criteria	Declared tests for judging
Perspective	The standpoint a judgement is made from
Timescale	The span over which effects are judged
Weighting	Choosing which test fits the enquiry
Commemoration	Chosen public remembering
Qualified verdict	A judgement with its frame declared

Key Facts

Two contradictory rankings can both be defensible — if their frames differ and are declared.
'It depends' becomes strong when the dependencies become the argument.
Memory is curated: statues and street names are choices, not verdicts.
Week 7's assessed account will demand a declared frame — this week builds it.

Arrival Task

1) Agency or context: 'the railway already reached the site'?

2) Name two significance tests.

3) What is a criterion?

4) When did the Redcar furnace go cold?

1) Give one 'count the unnamed' phrase.

2) Same event, different groups — why different verdicts?

3) Why re-judge significance at 10 vs 100 years?

4) The historian's qualifying word?

1) Distributed agency in one line.

2) Numbers says X, memory says Y. What now?

3) Memory test — whose memory counts, and who curates it?

4) Can 'it depends' be a strong answer? Condition?

Starter: The Verdict That Splits the Room

Key Question: 'The 2015 closure was the most significant event in Teesside's history.' Half the room can defend it; half can demolish it. Both halves can be right — if they name their criteria.

We Do 1: We Do: Which Part of the Frame?

Groups: 📐 CRITERION, 👥 PERSPECTIVE, ⏳ TIMESCALE. Sort: '…by the numbers test…', '…for the steel families…', '…over the century since…', '…judged on memory…', '…seen from London…', '…in the first decade…', '…for newcomers to the town…', '…so far — the effects are young…'

We Do 2: We Do: Match the Verdict → Its Declared Frame

Draw lines to match:

'Closure first' · '1850 first' · 'Railway first' · 'Bridge first' · 'WW2 yards first' · 'Too soon to rank 2015'

Duration · the nation · the railway age · Depth · steel families · the decade since · Numbers+duration · whole town · two centuries · Timescale objection · effects still young · Depth · every wartime family · the 1940s · Memory · the town's identity · still counting

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

test, for whom, over, depth, numbers, verdict

Frames

"By ___, for ___, over ___ — ___ ranks first."

Scaffolding – Standard

Double Verdict Structure

A: frame + verdict. B: frame + verdict. Enquiry: name it. Weight: which test fits it and why. Pick: commit.

Scaffolding – Stretch

Memory audit frames

"Teesside commemorates ___ but not ___" | "The curator here is ___" | "Applying the audit, ___ moves because ___"

📘 Reference Zone — keep this beside your work

The full frame — all three parts, declared up front

📐 CRITERION — which test? numbers · depth · duration · memory
👥 PERSPECTIVE — for whom? steel families · newcomers · the town · the nation
⏳ TIMESCALE — over what span? the decade · the century · so far

The sentence: “By ______, for ______, over ______ — ______ ranks first.”

Why one score is not enough — the same event, two standpoints

The 2015 closure, scored 1–3 on each test. Nothing changes but the standpoint.

Test	For the nation	For steel families here
🔢 Numbers	1 — one closure among many	2 — thousands of households
🌊 Depth	1 — barely felt	3 — lives rebuilt from scratch
⏳ Duration	2 — a long industry ended	3 — a decade on, still shaping the town
🏛️ Memory	1 — rarely taught nationally	3 — central to local identity
TOTAL	5 / 12	11 / 12

⚡ The GROW move: significance is not one number. A single total hides the standpoint that produced it. Score twice, then say which frame your enquiry asks for.

“It depends” done right — three steps, never two

1. NAME — “It depends on criterion and standpoint…”
2. WEIGH — “…for THIS enquiry, depth outweighs numbers because…”
3. VERDICT — “…so, framed that way: the closure ranks first.”

Stopping after step 1 is the lazy version. The dependency has to become the argument.

🛑 “IT DEPENDS” FEELS LIKE DODGING THE QUESTION.

It is — if you stop there. “It depends, so who can say.” scores nothing.

Name the dependency, then close it anyway: “our enquiry asks about lived impact HERE, so depth is the right test, so the closure outranks 1850 for this question.”

You still give a verdict. You just say what it is standing on.

❓ FAMOUS OR SIGNIFICANT? THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.

Something can be famous and change nothing. Something can change everything and be barely known.

Fame is only the memory test — one of four. The ironstone find is barely in national textbooks and it built a town of 90,000.

🔤 Words I might need: significance · criterion · perspective · standpoint · timescale · although · defensible · verdict

🧩 Independent Work – Supported (BUILD TWO FRAMES)

Two Framed Verdicts

1) Verdict 1: By ______, for ______, over ______ → ______ first.

2) Verdict 2: By ______, for ______, over ______ → ______ first.

3) Why can both stand?

⚖️ Independent Work – Standard (DOUBLE VERDICT)

The Double Verdict

1) Closure verdict, fully framed:

2) 1850 verdict, fully framed:

3) The enquiry I'm answering:

4) Weighting + final pick:

🧮 Independent Work – Stretch (FRAME, SCORE & DEFEND)

Auditing the Memory Test

1) What Teesside commemorates (3 items) and doesn't (2):

2) Who curates, and what that selects for:

3) One ranking re-run with the audit applied:

Exit Ticket – Supported

1) Name the three parts of the full frame.

2) Two verdicts disagree but both stand. How?

3) Which criterion favours the 1850 find?

Lundy Loop — this lesson

Space → Voice → Audience → Influence. The adult’s first job is Space: regulate before you educate.

Space	The Verdicts Wall holds contradictory rankings side by side — contradiction with frames is the display.
Voice	Deliver your weighted verdict to the room in 60 seconds; the room may challenge only the FRAME, not the taste.
Audience	Steel-family voices: this week's verdicts are shared with the community partners who visit at showcase.
Influence	The class's chosen enquiry question becomes the actual title of Week 7's assessed account.

Closing the loop: this one ends on paper — your own hand, or your words scribed by an adult. Saying it aloud starts the loop; writing it is what closes it. Pass is always allowed.

What I said, and what it changed:

How Big a Deal? — Feedback Sheet

Keep with your book / folder.

Pupil name:	Date:
WWW (What Went Well):
EBI (Even Better If):
Level worked at: Supported / Standard / Stretch	Evidence filed: Yes / Not yet
Authorship — what I chose or decided myself:
Support given — prepared / scribed / modelled / hand-over-hand:
Pupil response — my next step:

Exit Ticket – Standard

1) Write a one-line verdict with all three frame-parts declared.

2) When is 'it depends' strong?

3) Why might 2015 be 'too soon to rank'?

Exit Ticket – Stretch

1) Whose memory does the memory test measure — and who curates it?

2) How does perspective interact with Week 4's distributed agency?

3) Set the frame you'd use for Week 7's assessed account, and defend it.

How Big a Deal?

Success looks like

Teacher Print Tools — Week 5

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. People (Last week)

2. Tests (Recall)

3. Judge (Recall)

4. Local (Recall)

1. Retrieval (Last week)

2. Perspective (Think)

3. Timescale (Think)

4. Language (Recall)

1. Retrieval (Last week)

2. Criteria clash (Think)

3. Whose memory (Think)

4. Meta (Think)

Starter: The Verdict That Splits the Room

The Case For

The Case Against

The Split

The Re-judge

I Do: Criteria Plus Perspective

📖 The Full Frame

🧠 Watch me think — the frame assembles

We Do: Which Part of the Frame?

I Do: The Defensible 'It Depends'

📖 Depends, Done Right

🧠 Watch me think

We Do: Match the Verdict → Its Declared Frame

Independent Work — Show What You Know

Supported

Standard

Stretch

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in This Enquiry

🚪 SPACE

📣 VOICE

👥 AUDIENCE

⭐ INFLUENCE

Exit Ticket

1.

2.

3.

1.

2.

3.

1.

2.

3.

Knowledge Organiser (GROW W5): How Big a Deal?

Key Facts

Arrival Task

Starter: The Verdict That Splits the Room

We Do 1: We Do: Which Part of the Frame?

We Do 2: We Do: Match the Verdict → Its Declared Frame

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

Frames

Scaffolding – Standard

Double Verdict Structure

Scaffolding – Stretch

Memory audit frames

📘 Reference Zone — keep this beside your work

The full frame — all three parts, declared up front

Why one score is not enough — the same event, two standpoints

“It depends” done right — three steps, never two

🧩 Independent Work – Supported (BUILD TWO FRAMES)

⚖️ Independent Work – Standard (DOUBLE VERDICT)

🧮 Independent Work – Stretch (FRAME, SCORE & DEFEND)

Exit Ticket – Supported

Lundy Loop — this lesson

How Big a Deal? — Feedback Sheet

Exit Ticket – Standard

Exit Ticket – Stretch

🧑‍🏫 TA Focus

🎯 Cold Call