LAUNCH · Week 4 of 8

Century of Change

Humanities · Migration & the Making of Modern Teesside

Progress SoW · Humanities Aut 1 · 2026–27 · LAUNCH · Week 4

Enquiry: How far was the period a turning point?

Success looks like

I can describe change and continuity across a century
I can judge the pace of change with examples
I can explain a turning point and defend the choice

Aspire · GCSE reach: argue whether change or continuity mattered more — with criteria.

Teacher Print Tools — Week 4

Arrival Task

Arrival Task – What Do You Already Know?

1. Archive (Last week)

What do N, O, P stand for?

Nature, origin, purpose.

2. Change (Recall)

What is a turning point?

A moment after which things run differently.

3. Local (Recall)

Put in order: ironstone found · furnace cold · bridge opens.

1850 → 1911 → 2015.

4. Continuity (Recall)

What does continuity mean?

Things staying the same across time.

1. Retrieval (Last week)

Utility is always relative to…?

The enquiry.

2. Pace (Recall)

Rapid vs gradual change — one Teesside example each.

Boom towns rose fast; work culture shifted slowly.

3. Extent (Think)

'Everything changed' — the historian's objection?

Extent varies by domain — economy, daily life, identity.

4. Measure (Think)

How would you MEASURE change across a century?

Compare matched snapshots: census, maps, wages, photos.

1. Retrieval (Last week)

Make the inversion case in one line.

Propaganda outranks census for enquiries into the persuader.

2. Turning point (Think)

What must a 'turning point' claim demonstrate?

A before/after difference in direction, not just a big event.

3. Layers (Think)

Change in economy vs identity — why different speeds?

Structures shift faster than cultures; identity lags and endures.

4. Exam (Recall)

The GCSE change stem?

'How far did ___ change in the period…' — extent, pace, domains.

Starter

Starter: 1915 ↔ 2015, One Postcode

Key Question: Two photographs, one street corner, a century apart. The works behind it roared in 1915 and stood silent by 2015. What changed, what stubbornly didn't — and was any single year the hinge?

🏭

1915

Furnaces lit, shifts round the clock

The roaring century begins

📉

The Slide

ICI peaks, then thins; steel consolidates

Gradual, not sudden

🔥

2015

The last furnace cools

An ending — or a hinge?

🧬

The Constant

'Smoggies' — identity outlives industry

Continuity

Pairs: nominate ONE year as the century's hinge — then say what evidence a rival would demand.

I Do

I Do: Change Has Dimensions

Key Idea: A century of change is judged on four dials: direction, pace, extent and domain — and the dials rarely agree.

📖 The Four Dials

Direction — Growth, decline, transformation — which way?

Pace — Rapid rupture or slow drift?

Extent & domain — How much, and in WHICH area — economy, work, identity?

🧠 Watch me think

Set the dials for 1915–2015: economy — direction down, pace gradual-then-sudden, extent severe. Daily work — transformed (shift whistle to shift patterns of a different kind). Identity — direction steady, extent shallow: the Boro is still the Boro. One century, three domains, three different readings. 'Everything changed' just died of measurement.

We Do

We Do: Which Dial Is Being Read?

How to play: Tap a claim about the century, then tap the dial it reads. Score: 0/8

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

'Heavy industry declined across the century'

'The end came suddenly after decades of drift'

'Work transformed; identity barely moved'

'ICI thinned gradually through the 80s'

'Chemicals rose as iron fell'

'The change was economic more than cultural'

'2015 felt overnight — it wasn't'

'Population growth reversed after 1970'

🧭 DIRECTION

⏱️ PACE

📊 EXTENT/DOMAIN

I Do

I Do: Testing a Turning Point

Key Idea: 'Turning point' is a claim, not a feeling: it must show direction DIFFERENT after than before, with the hinge doing the turning.

👀 Look: “turning point” is a claim, not a feeling. Show the bend, or it is only a famous date.

📖 The Hinge Test

Before-line — Establish the trajectory up to the candidate year.

After-line — Establish the trajectory following it.

Attribution — Show the hinge caused the bend — not just sat at it.

🧠 Watch me think

Test 2015 as the hinge: before-line — steel already shrinking for forty years. After-line — continued decline, plus renewal projects. The direction didn't BEND in 2015; it concluded. So 2015 is an ENDPOINT, not a turning point — the bend came earlier, arguably the 1970s oil-and-steel shocks. The test just demoted the famous year. That's LAUNCH: the obvious candidate interrogated, not crowned.

We Do

We Do: Match the Candidate Year → Its Verdict Under the Hinge Test

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

🗓️ 1850

🗓️ 1915 wartime peak

🗓️ The 1930s slump

🗓️ The 1970s shocks

🗓️ 2015 closure

🗓️ The renewal 2020s

Endpoint — concludes a bend made earlier

Strong candidate — decline's direction sets in

True hinge — hamlet to iron town bends here

Acceleration, not a bend — direction unchanged

Too soon — after-line still being drawn

A dip the after-line recovered from

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: Dial sheet: set direction/pace/extent for TWO domains (work, identity) across the century using the evidence cards.

Steps: One dial row per domain · evidence card cited per dial · 'the dials disagree because…' sentence.

Standard

Task: Hinge test in writing: run before-line/after-line/attribution on ONE candidate year and deliver the verdict.

Steps: Candidate declared · both trajectory lines evidenced · attribution argued · verdict: hinge, endpoint, dip or acceleration.

Stretch

Task: The full century essay plan: dials per domain, two hinge tests (one confirmed, one demoted), extent verdict with domains split.

Steps: Plan not prose · both tests run · 'how far did Teesside change' answered per domain · the famous-year demotion defended.

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 Century Wall spans the corridor — your dial readings and hinge verdicts pin wherever the timeline needs them.

📣 VOICE

Defend your hinge verdict in the two-minute colloquium; challenges must cite a trajectory line.

👥 AUDIENCE

The Century Wall is the showcase centrepiece — families will read YOUR verdicts on their own lived decades.

⭐ INFLUENCE

Week 5 ballot: which individuals go under the agency lens? Nominate from any decade the wall now holds.

Exit Ticket

Instructions: Answer independently. No notes.

1.

Name two of the four dials.

Direction, pace, extent, domain.

2.

2015: turning point or endpoint?

Endpoint — the bend came earlier.

3.

What stayed most continuous across the century?

Identity — the Boro remained the Boro.

1.

What must a turning-point claim demonstrate?

Different direction after vs before, hinge attributed.

2.

Why did the 1970s outrank 2015 under the test?

The direction of decline sets in there; 2015 concludes it.

3.

Read one dial for the identity domain.

Direction steady / extent shallow — evidenced.

1.

Why do domains change at different speeds?

Structures shift faster than cultures; identity lags.

2.

What ruins most 'everything changed' claims?

Measurement — extent varies by domain.

3.

Answer the GCSE stem in one framed line.

'Substantially in economy, moderately in work, barely in identity.'

Knowledge Organiser (LAUNCH W4): Century of Change

Humanities Aut 1 · 2026–27 · Enquiry: How far was the period a turning point?

Key Word	Definition
Turning point	A hinge that bends the trajectory
Endpoint	Concludes a change made earlier
Direction / pace	Which way, how fast
Extent / domain	How much, in which area
Before/after-lines	Trajectories that test the hinge
Continuity	What persists through change

Key Facts

The hinge test demotes famous years and promotes quiet ones.
Teesside's bend: arguably the 1970s; 2015 was the full stop.
Identity outlived industry — continuity is a finding, not a failure.
'How far' answers split by domain or die by vagueness.

Arrival Task

1) What do N, O, P stand for?

2) What is a turning point?

3) Put in order: ironstone found · furnace cold · bridge opens.

4) What does continuity mean?

1) Utility is always relative to…?

2) Rapid vs gradual change — one Teesside example each.

3) 'Everything changed' — the historian's objection?

4) How would you MEASURE change across a century?

1) Make the inversion case in one line.

2) What must a 'turning point' claim demonstrate?

3) Change in economy vs identity — why different speeds?

4) The GCSE change stem?

Starter: 1915 ↔ 2015, One Postcode

We Do 1: Which Dial Is Being Read?

Groups: 🧭 DIRECTION, ⏱️ PACE, 📊 EXTENT/DOMAIN. Sort: 'Heavy industry declined across the century', 'The end came suddenly after decades of drift', 'Work transformed; identity barely moved', 'ICI thinned gradually through the 80s', 'Chemicals rose as iron fell', 'The change was economic more than cultural', '2015 felt overnight — it wasn't', 'Population growth reversed after 1970'

We Do 2: Match the Candidate Year → Its Verdict Under the Hinge Test

Draw lines to match:

🗓️ 1850 · 🗓️ 1915 wartime peak · 🗓️ The 1930s slump · 🗓️ The 1970s shocks · 🗓️ 2015 closure · 🗓️ The renewal 2020s

Endpoint — concludes a bend made earlier · Strong candidate — decline's direction sets in · True hinge — hamlet to iron town bends here · Acceleration, not a bend — direction unchanged · Too soon — after-line still being drawn · A dip the after-line recovered from

Scaffolding – Supported

Word Bank

direction, pace, extent, hinge, before, after, still

Frames

"The direction was…" | "The pace felt ___ but was ___" | "___ changed most; ___ changed least"

Scaffolding – Standard

Hinge Test Structure

Candidate: the year. Before-line: evidenced. After-line: evidenced. Attribution: did it bend there? Verdict: hinge / endpoint / dip / acceleration.

Scaffolding – Stretch

Century plan frames

"Per domain: economy ___ / work ___ / identity ___" | "Test 1 confirms ___; test 2 demotes ___" | "How far? ___ in ___, ___ in ___ — the split IS the answer"

📘 Reference Zone — keep this beside your work

“Everything changed” dies of measurement. Set the dials per domain, then test the hinge.

The four dials

Dial	What you are reading
Direction	Growth, decline or transformation — which way?
Pace	Rapid rupture, or slow drift?
Extent	How much — shallow or severe?
Domain	In WHICH area — economy, work, identity? The dials rarely agree.

The hinge test — three steps, then a verdict

Before-line → the trajectory up to the candidate year. After-line → the trajectory following it. Attribution → did the hinge cause the bend, or just sit at it?

Four possible verdicts: hinge · endpoint · dip · acceleration. A year can be famous and still be an endpoint — that is the test doing its job.

Independent Work – Supported

Dial Sheet

WORK — direction: ____ pace: ____ extent: ____ (card cited: ____)

IDENTITY — direction: ____ pace: ____ extent: ____ (card cited: ____)

"The dials disagree because…"

Independent Work – Standard

The Hinge Test

1) Candidate year:

2) Before-line (evidenced):

3) After-line (evidenced):

4) Attribution — did it bend HERE?

5) Verdict:

Independent Work – Stretch

Century Essay Plan

1) Dials per domain (three rows):

2) Hinge test A (confirmed) / B (demoted):

3) 'How far did Teesside change?' — the split verdict:

Exit Ticket – Supported

1) Name two of the four dials.

2) 2015: turning point or endpoint?

3) What stayed most continuous across the century?

Lundy Loop — this lesson

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

Space	The Century Wall spans the corridor — your dial readings and hinge verdicts pin wherever the timeline needs them.
Voice	Defend your hinge verdict in the two-minute colloquium; challenges must cite a trajectory line.
Audience	The Century Wall is the showcase centrepiece — families will read YOUR verdicts on their own lived decades.
Influence	Week 5 ballot: which individuals go under the agency lens? Nominate from any decade the wall now holds.

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: