Grade 5 Writing Common Assessment
Power
Standard W-5.6
Question:
Use
the fact sheet and what you know to write a report comparing a one-room
schoolhouse from the 1850s to your school today.
One-Room Schools in
A student wrote this fact sheet about one-room
schoolhouses in the
1850s. Read the fact sheet and think about your own
school. Then write a
response to the prompt that follows:
teachers poorly trained
school within walking distance for students
one teacher taught students of many different ages and
grade levels
students grade level based on their reading ability
most writing done on slates (little blackboards) with
chalk
quill pens and ink also used
schoolhouses heated with wood
used oil lamps for light
no running water
outhouses for bathrooms
students had to buy their own books and provide their
own materials
much of school day spent memorizing lessons and then
saying them out loud
teachers very stricteven used physical punishment
students had to be very respectful
students often sat together on benches, boys on one
side of the room
and girls on the
other, with younger children in front
subjects included reading, writing, arithmetic,
geography, and history
Use the questions in the box below to organize your writing. You
can answer the questions before
you write to plan your
response or after you write to check your response.
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1. What is the focus/controlling idea of your
report?__________________________
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2.
What are the supporting
details in your report?____________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
3. What is the conclusion
to your report?___________________________________
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