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 15 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.
Letters to a National Newspaper
Three letters printed on the correspondence page of a national newspaper in 1951.
YOUR CORRESPONDENTS WRITE
Sir: my family has waited six years. The figures mean nothing to us.
Sir: the councils build too slowly. Let private firms compete.
Sir: the villages are forgotten while the cities are rebuilt.
The editor notes that all three writers gave their addresses.
Letters may be shortened for space.
1. Where and when were these letters printed?
2. Why does the editor note that the writers gave their addresses?
LessonPrint · D2.His.6.3-5 · Set 15 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Who Wrote It and What For
Set 15. 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. On the correspondence page of a national newspaper in 1951. 2. To show the letters came from real correspondents who could be identified.
More practice for D2.His.6.3-5
Describe how a source's maker shaped what the source says.
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