Analyzing Multiple Accounts of the Same Event Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RI.5.6

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When the authorities are investigating a crime or an alleged crime they will often interview many different people that had some level of experience with the event itself. Each account of the event is often slightly different. Detectives need to piece together their best guess as to what happened by meshing together all of the different recounts of the events. These worksheets will help students piece together similarities and difference in how multiple characters view and understand an event.

Analyzing Multiple Accounts Worksheets:

Inspector Howard – Which witness do you not believe?

The Great Cap Chase – Barry and Byron Beaver have a completely different recollection of what happened out there.

The Grand Opening – The first day at the Arts Academy.

Can You Tell Me How to Get There? – Directions come from all directions for Jill.

Analyzing Multiple Accounts – You will need to reread the work a few times.

Multiple Accounts – Who remembers their play as being a little scary?

The Bermuda Triangle – In the past 500 years, about 1,000 ships sailing through the Bermuda Triangle or planes passing over it have disappeared without a trace, and continue to do so to this day.

Armadillo – On a separate sheet of paper, explain at least three ways in which the accounts are different.

What is Botany? – Who do you think is the intended audience of account A?

The Slighted Guest – How does the tone of the two passages differ?

Accounts of Jealousy – Write a paragraph that compares and contrasts the content and style of the two writers' descriptions of jealousy.

Icarus – What are the essential features of the story that both accounts have in common?

Analyzing Multiple Accounts – Choose one of the historical time periods listed below. Read two different accounts of the time period. Then write a paragraph analyzing how the two accounts differ.

Global Warming – Global warming is a controversial topic with multiple viewpoints. Find two sources that give you information about global warming.

Surrender at Appomattox – People from all across the country have a different view on this.

How to Analyze Multiple Accounts of the Same Event?


As a student, you are sometimes asked to analyze a text or story written about an important historical event in depth. Analysis of any event is an art and this is where the difference between ordinary and extraordinary students gets clear. Historical events and socio-political as well as cultural and economic state of a specific place under the influence of that event are most of the time described in great lengths by many authors. The best practice to analyze a famous event through multiple events is to read more than one text about that event and analyze them keeping the following points in mind:


Analyze the People Involved


An event cannot occur by itself. Whether the literature is focused on the people responsible for that event or not, your job must be to try to find out the people who were a part of that event and try to analyze the event by putting yourself in their shoes.


Analyze the Aspects


All the great events in human history have left a huge impression on the economy, politics, ethics, religious beliefs, and culture of the area and the people effected by it or responsible for the event. You can always analyze an event by different lenses and by applying various theories about what economic, political, or cultural changes were the cause of that event. You can also try to analyze the changes and revolution brought about in these individual systems during the event or after it ended. This can give you a lot of deep insight on the event and can shape your mind as a great thinker.


Analyze the Causes and Effects


Analyze an event for its causes and effects. Try to look at how it effected the common men of the time and whether the effect was positive or negative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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