Five changes in Irish life from the last hundred years:
What do you notice or wonder?
We will work out which mattered most, and how a historian decides.
The line runs from mattered less to mattered most.
Where does this change belong on the line?
Which test did you use, and what in the short fact backs it?
Would anyone place it somewhere else, and why?
Which test is strongest for this change, and why?
In your copy, finish these lines in your own words:
The change that mattered most was ...
It mattered because ...
The test I used is ...
Look back at the line we made and at what you wrote in your copy.
Which change does our class say mattered most, and which test backs that judgement?
Can two people place the same change in different places and both be using evidence well?
What can five short facts on a board NOT tell us about these changes?
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