What the Document Assumes is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on inferring audience and purpose from a source, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.11.3-5. 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.
Set 11 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 23 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.
What the Document Assumes
D2.His.11.3-5
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Look at the source, then answer the questions.
1.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Minute of the School Board
A minute of the elected school board for the region, 1890.
SCHOOL BOARD, MINUTE OF 4 MARCH 1890
Present: nine members. Absent: two.
Resolved: that half-time working for children under eleven cease.
Voted: six for, three against.
Members against stated that families depend on the wage.
The clerk to inform the mill owners.
1. Was the decision unanimous?
2. What does the minute not tell you?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Circular From the Weavers' Union
A circular sent to members by the weavers' union during the same dispute, 1893.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION
The owners ask a shilling in the pound from wages already low.
Their profits last year were published at 12,000 pounds.
We ask every hand to stand out from Monday.
The relief fund holds 340 pounds. That is nine days.
Signed, the committee.
1. What does the circular not tell you?
2. How long could the members hold out?
LessonPrint · D2.His.11.3-5 · Set 11 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What the Document Assumes
Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. No. Six voted for and three against. 2. It does not tell you whether the mill owners obeyed.
2.1. It does not tell you how many members agreed to stand out. 2. About nine days, because the relief fund holds 340 pounds.
More practice for D2.His.11.3-5
Work out who a source was made for and why, from the source itself.
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