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 C3 Framework indicator 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 students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 9 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 students 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.
Harbor Return of Cargo
A return of cargo landed at the harbor, submitted by the harbormaster to the board in 1888.
CARGO LANDED, YEAR ENDING 1888
Timber ............ 14,000 tons
Grain ............. 22,000 tons
Coal (outward) .... 31,000 tons
Cotton ............ 6,500 tons
Vessels entered: 412. Vessels lost at sea: 3.
Dues collected: 4,180 pounds.
1. Why did the harbormaster submit a return of cargo?
2. Who submitted this return, and to whom?
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 harbor, made the region.
Mill employment rose fastest and drew people from the uplands.
Other historians point to the harbor returns and disagree.
The author concedes the harbor paid for the roads and the schools.
The dispute turns on which measure counts: people, or money.
1. What is the author trying to establish?
2. When was this published, and what kind of work is it?
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Answer key — Whose Document Is This?
Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. So the board could see what was landed and what dues were collected. 2. The harbormaster submitted it to the board in 1888.
2.1. That the mills rather than the harbor made the region. 2. In 1998, and it is a secondary work that other historians disagree with.
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.