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Setting and Event in Depth is a free printable Grade 4 English worksheet on describing a setting or event from the text's own detail, aligned to Common Core standard RL.4.3. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Setting and Event in Depth

RL.4.3

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Arachne

Arachne could weave. Shepherds left their flocks to watch her hands. She was asked once whether the goddess Athene had taught her. "Nobody taught me," she said. "Let Athene weave against me and we shall see who learned from whom." An old woman at the edge of the crowd advised her to take it back. Arachne laughed at her. The old woman straightened up and was Athene. They wove for a day. Athene's cloth showed the gods in glory. Arachne's showed the gods behaving badly, and it was — everyone could see it — the better work. Athene tore it to pieces. Then she touched Arachne's forehead and made her into a spider, so that she could go on weaving for ever and nobody would ever look.

  1. 1. What happened between the old woman's advice and the weaving contest?
  2. 2. Where does this myth take place, and who is watching?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Quarry, Filled

Stanza one: They took the hill away in carts for ninety years, and then they stopped. The hole they left filled up with rain until the rain had reached the top. Stanza two: Now people swim where men once cut. The water hides the ledge, the crane, the drill-marks in the standing rock, the tracks, the shed, the loading lane. Stanza three: The children diving off the edge have never heard the word for it. They call it "the lake". They are not wrong. A thing becomes what people make of it.

  1. 1. Where is this poem set, and how has the setting changed?
  2. 2. Put these in order: children swim there, the quarry stops, the hole fills with rain.

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Answer key — Setting and Event in Depth

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Arachne laughed at her, and the old woman straightened up and revealed herself as Athene. 2. In public, in front of a crowd that includes shepherds who left their flocks.
  2. 2.1. A worked-out quarry that is now a lake people swim in. 2. The quarry stops, the hole fills with rain, children swim there.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.4.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.