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 23 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.
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?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
A Disputed History of the Region
An extract from a regional history published in 1998. This is a SECONDARY work, and other historians disagree with it.
THE REGION'S CENTURY
The author argues the mills, not the harbour, made the region.
Mill employment rose fastest and drew people from the uplands.
Other historians point to the harbour returns and disagree.
The author concedes the harbour paid for the roads and the schools.
The dispute turns on which measure counts: people, or money.
1. When was this published, and what kind of work is it?
2. What is the author trying to establish?
LessonPrint · D2.His.6.3-5 · Set 23 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Whose Document Is This?
Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The weavers' union committee sent it to its members in 1893. 2. To argue the owners could pay, since profits were 12,000 pounds.
2.1. In 1998, and it is a secondary work that other historians disagree with. 2. That the mills rather than the harbour made the region.
More practice for D2.His.6.3-5
Describe how a source's maker shaped what the source says.
Teaching this next? Whose Document Is This? is the 50-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.