Dating a Town Document is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on the maker, date and place of a source, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.11.K-2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 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.
Set 11 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.
Dating a Town Document
D2.His.11.K-2
NameDate
Look at the source, then answer the questions.
1.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Census Page, Mill Row
A page from the town census of 1871, kept in the record office.
MILL ROW, 1871
Number 3: Shaw, John, 34, weaver.
Number 3: Shaw, Alice, 31, weaver.
Number 3: Shaw, Emma, 11, piecer at the mill.
Number 4: Doyle, Mary, 58, washerwoman.
Number 5: empty.
1. When was this census taken and where is it kept?
2. Why did the town count people this way?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Town Council Minute
A page from the minutes of the town council meeting, 4 October.
TOWN COUNCIL, 4 OCTOBER
Present: nine councillors. Two absent.
1. The library roof needs repair. Cost: 800 pounds.
2. Seven councillors voted to mend it. Two voted against.
3. The money will come from the town fund.
4. Work will begin in November.
1. Why does the council write minutes?
2. What kind of record is this and who made it?
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Answer key — Dating a Town Document
Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. In 1871, and it is kept in the record office. 2. To record who lived in each house on Mill Row and what work they did.
2.1. So there is a record of what was decided and how councillors voted. 2. Minutes made by the town council at its meeting on 4 October.
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