What Was the Boston Tea Party?

 

What Was the Boston Tea Party is a nonfiction book that describes what the Boston tea party was and who participated. This is a historical book. It is also a picture book. There are sketches throughout the book. There are also artist renderings of the important people of the time. None of the illustrations or painting copies are in color. I think that it helps with placing the time period. There would not have been color photographs during this time.

 

 

 

 

Some motivational activities that could be done would be to have a class discussion about what they believe the impact of the Boston Tea Party had on history.

 

Another idea would be to have the class write a few short paragraphs about that time period and what people went through in America to get their freedoms.

 

 

Reader Response Questions:

 

1. Why did the people that threw all of the tea in the harbor dress as Indians?

 

2. What type of things could have gone wrong that night?

 

 

References

Galda, L., Cullinan, B. E., & Sipe, L. R. (2010). Literature and the child (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.

 

 



Krull, K., & Mortimer, L. (2013). What was the Boston Tea Party?. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.