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Where the Last Part Changes It is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on explaining how an ending reframes what came before, aligned to Common Core standard RL.5.5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 22 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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Where the Last Part Changes It

RL.5.5

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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. Why does the poem give the bell its own stanza?
  2. 2. Explain how the four stanzas fit together to make the poem's point.
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Pandora

The gods made Pandora and gave her, between them, everything: beauty, skill, a voice, curiosity. They also gave her a jar, and told her not to open it. They did not say what was in it. She kept it for a long time. The story is usually told as though she opened it immediately. She did not. When she did lift the lid, out came sickness, hunger, grief and every trouble that has since been ordinary. She got the lid back on with one thing still inside. That thing was hope. And people have argued for three thousand years about whether keeping it in was a mercy or the cruellest part of all.

  1. 1. Explain how the last paragraph fits with the ones before it.

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Answer key — Where the Last Part Changes It

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  1. 1.1. Because the bell is the one thing that continues, so it is separated from what was lost. 2. The church goes, the bell survives unused, the bell returns to use, and the last stanza states what has and has not lasted.
  2. 2.1. The first four tell the story; the last refuses to settle it, which is the point.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.5.5 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.