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 12 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.
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. Why fix prices for five years?
2. Who signed this agreement and when?
2.Look at the source, then answer the questions.
A Contested National History
An extract from a national history published in 2011. This is a SECONDARY work making a causal claim other historians reject.
REBUILDING: WHAT ACTUALLY DECIDED IT
The author argues that shortages, not politics, set the pace of rebuilding.
She points to the broadcast admitting bricks and timber ran short.
Critics reply that the choice to use councils slowed the work.
The author concedes she cannot separate the two causes with certainty.
She rests her case on the quarterly figures the minister promised.
1. What is the author trying to establish?
2. When was this published, and what kind of work is it?
LessonPrint · D2.His.6.3-5 · Set 12 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Wrote It and What For
Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. So each government knows what the timber and machine tools will cost over that period. 2. Two governments signed it in 1948.
2.1. That shortages rather than politics set the pace of rebuilding. 2. In 2011, and it is a secondary work making a causal claim other historians reject.
More practice for D2.His.6.3-5
Describe how a source's maker shaped what the source says.
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