Compare Two Settings or Events is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on comparing settings and events within a text, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.3. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Orpheus played so well that rivers changed course to listen.
When his wife Eurydice died, he went down to argue with the dead. He played to the ferryman, who took him free. He played to the three-headed dog, which lay down. He played to the king of the underworld, who wept, and who had never wept.
The king gave one condition. Eurydice would follow him up, and he must not look back until both of them stood in the light.
He climbed for a day. He could not hear her footsteps — the dead make none — and he had only the king's word.
Ten paces from the daylight, he turned round.
She was there. That was the last he saw of her.
1. Put the events in order.
2. How does the underworld setting shape the test?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Refusal
The rule was that everyone in Year Six performed at the leavers' assembly.
Kemi told Mr Adeyemi she would not. Not could not — would not.
He asked why. She said that if she explained, he would try to solve it, and it was not a problem to be solved. It was a decision.
He could have made her. Instead he asked whether she would run the sound desk, which nobody had volunteered for and which meant she would be there for every rehearsal.
She said yes.
At the assembly she was at the back, in the dark, and every cue was perfect. Her mother asked afterwards why she had not been in it. Kemi said she had been.
1. Put the events in order.
2. How does the assembly setting matter?
LessonPrint · RL.5.3 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Compare Two Settings or Events
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Eurydice dies, Orpheus plays his way past the ferryman, the dog and the king, climbs for a day, and turns ten paces from the light. 2. The dead are silent, so he cannot check she is there — the setting is what makes the condition unbearable.
2.1. The rule is stated, Kemi refuses, the teacher offers the sound desk, she attends the rehearsals, and she runs the assembly. 2. It is a public event, so refusing is visible — which is why the offer of the sound desk works.
Questions about Compare Two Settings or Events
What does the Compare Two Settings or Events worksheet cover?
It practises comparing settings and events within a text — 2 questions for Grade 5, all on Common Core RL.5.3: Compare two characters or settings using specific details. The instruction to pupils is “Read the text, then answer the questions”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which Common Core standard does Compare Two Settings or Events practise?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 — RL.5.3, in the Reading: Literature domain for Grade 5. The published standard reads: “Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Compare Two Settings or Events is written for Grade 5, typically ages 10-11. It is one of the sheets on RL.5.3, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Compare Two Settings or Events come with an answer key?
Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Compare Two Settings or Events can I print?
25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Compare Two Settings or Events free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Compare Two Settings or Events, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for RL.5.3
Compare two characters or settings using specific details.