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Two Narrators, One Event is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on comparing what two narrators of one event describe, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.6. 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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Two Narrators, One Event

RL.5.6

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Read Text 1 and answer the question under it.

1.Read Text 1 and answer the question under it.

Text 1: What We Kept

Stanza one: We kept the table, which was too big, and the clock, which had never gone, and a tin of buttons nobody wanted, and the habit of turning lights off. Stanza two: We gave away the good chairs. We gave away the china, all of it. We gave away the piano to a school because none of us could play. Stanza three: Ten years on, I would not know the chairs if I saw them in a window on a street. But I turn the hall light off behind me every single time, and think of her.

  1. 1. Why was the piano given to a school?
2.Now read Text 2 and answer these questions about BOTH texts.

Text 2: 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. How is this poem like "The Bell"?
  2. 2. How does its scale differ from "What We Kept"?
  3. 3. How is this poem like "What We Kept"?

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Answer key — Two Narrators, One Event

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  1. 1.1. Because none of them could play.
  2. 2.1. Both are about something small — a hall light habit, a bell — that outlasts the household or church it belonged to. 2. This is a village over centuries; that is one family over ten years. 3. Both are about what survives when the thing it belonged to is gone.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.6 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.