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What Each Account Represents is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on identifying the point of view each account carries, aligned to Common Core standard RI.5.6. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 23 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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What Each Account Represents

RI.5.6

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Mill: Ivy Sallow's Account

We knew by the thread. You cannot work a loom for twenty-two years and not notice when the good cotton stops coming. From about the March, it was the cheap stuff, and it broke. So we knew something. What we did not know was how long we had, and that is the part I mind. I could have been looking. My sister found work in Derby that spring and asked me twice. I said the mill would see me out. He stood on a crate on the Friday and told us. Somebody asked how long he had known. He said he would rather not say. That was the answer, really.

  1. 1. How does Ivy's account differ from Mr Whately's?
  2. 2. What does the newspaper report give that neither of these does?
  3. 3. Describe how this narrator's point of view shapes what is included.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Mill: The Local Paper, June 1980

Whately's Mill closed on Friday with the loss of 214 jobs, the largest single closure in the town since the war. The mill had run since 1868. At its height it employed more than 600. Mr Whately declined to say when he had known the closure was certain. The Chamber of Commerce has called for a public inquiry; the union has called the closure "predictable for two years". The council says a retraining fund will open in September. Four other textile mills within twenty miles have closed since 1975. Nobody the paper spoke to expected the site to be used for textiles again.

  1. 1. What do the personal accounts give that this cannot?
  2. 2. What does this report give that the two personal accounts cannot?

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Answer key — What Each Account Represents

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. His explains why he stayed silent; hers describes what the silence cost somebody who trusted it. 2. Numbers and dates — the 214 jobs, 1868, and the four other mills closed since 1975. 3. Written from the weaving floor, so it gives the thread, the sister in Derby and the crate — and nothing of the accounts or the mortgage.
  2. 2.1. Whately's reasoning behind the silence, and what it cost Ivy, who turned down work in Derby. 2. Totals, dates and the regional pattern — 214 jobs, 1868, four other mills.

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