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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: 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. 1. What did Kemi tell her mother afterwards?
2.Now read Text 2 and answer these questions about BOTH texts.

Text 2: Orpheus Looks Back

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. 1. How is Orpheus's failure different from Pandora's?
  2. 2. How is Kemi like Ivy Sallow?
  3. 3. How is Orpheus like Pandora?

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Answer key — Two Narrators, One Event

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  1. 1.1. That she had been in it.
  2. 2.1. He loses only what he had gone to get back; she releases something on everybody else. 2. Both make a decision that costs them something and both stand by it afterwards. 3. Both are given one prohibition — do not look back, do not open the jar — and both break it.

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