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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.

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Compare Two Settings or Events

RL.5.3

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Bell

Stanza one: The church has gone. They took the stone for walls and gateposts, load by load. Where the aisle was there is a field. Where the door was there is a road. Stanza two: The bell they could not sell or break. It hung in a barn for eighty years, green with the damp, out of the way, mute as a stone among the gears. Stanza three: Last spring they hung it in the school. It rings at nine and rings at three. The children do not know its age and ring it anyway, and it is free. Stanza four: So the building went, and the faith went, and the road runs where the door was cut, and still the sound the masons heard goes out at nine, and comes back, and stops.

  1. 1. Put these in order: the bell hangs in the school, the church is taken down, the bell hangs in a barn.
  2. 2. How does the setting change across the poem?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Mill: Mr Whately's Account

I did not close the mill. The mill closed. For eleven years I put my own money in. In 1979 I sold my house and moved into the office above the weaving floor, and nobody knew that but my accountant. People say I should have told them earlier. I have thought about that more than they have. If I had said in January that we might not last the year, half the workforce would have left by February, and then we certainly would not have. I held on until the day I could not pay them. Then I told them. I have been told this was cowardice. I would call it arithmetic.

  1. 1. Put the events in order.
  2. 2. What does the office above the weaving floor tell you?

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Answer key — Compare Two Settings or Events

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  1. 1.1. The church is taken down, the bell hangs in a barn, the bell hangs in the school. 2. From church, to barn, to school — the same bell in three places.
  2. 2.1. Eleven years of private funding, selling the house in 1979, holding on, then telling them the day he could not pay. 2. That he lived on the premises — he had nowhere else after selling the house.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.