Who Wrote It and What For 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 10 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.
Who Wrote It and What For
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.
Extract From a Parliamentary Debate
An extract from the official report of a debate in Parliament on the housing proposals, 1946.
THE DEBATE ON HOUSING
Member for a northern city: my constituents live four to a room.
Member for a rural county: our villages are given nothing in this paper.
Minister: the allocation must go where the destruction was worst.
Member for a coastal town: private builders could work faster.
The House divided: 310 for the proposals, 246 against.
1. Where is this extract from, and when?
2. Why is a debate recorded word for word?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
Summary of a Trade Agreement
A published summary of a trade agreement signed between two governments in 1948.
AGREEMENT ON TIMBER AND MACHINERY
Country A will supply 500,000 tons of timber a year.
Country B will supply machine tools to the same value.
Prices are fixed for five years.
Either government may end the agreement with one year's notice.
Neither side may resell the goods to a third country.
1. Who signed this agreement and when?
2. Why fix prices for five years?
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Answer key — Who Wrote It and What For
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The official report of a debate in Parliament in 1946. 2. So the official report shows what members said and how the House divided.
2.1. Two governments signed it in 1948. 2. So each government knows what the timber and machine tools will cost over that period.
More practice for D2.His.6.3-5
Describe how a source's maker shaped what the source says.
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