Whose Document Is This? is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how a maker's perspective shaped a source, aligned to Common Core standard D2.His.6.3-5. 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.
Whose Document Is This?
D2.His.6.3-5
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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. Which body kept this minute, and when?
2. Why does a school board keep a minute of its votes?
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. Who sent this circular and to whom?
2. Why did the committee publish the owners' profits?
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Answer key — Whose Document Is This?
Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The elected school board for the region, on 4 March 1890. 2. To record what was resolved and how members voted.
2.1. The weavers' union committee sent it to its members in 1893. 2. To argue the owners could pay, since profits were 12,000 pounds.
More practice for D2.His.6.3-5
Describe how a source's maker shaped what the source says.
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