You Wouldn't want to be at

the Boston Tea Party! By: Mustafa Butt

Author: Peter Cook

Illustrator: David Antram

Number of pages: 32

Level: 40

Genre: Informational

What I learnt I learnt that the Boston Tea Party was not actually a tea

party. I learnt that it was actually when a lot of people went together on to the

English ships and they dumped all of the tea in to the water. The reason for this

was because there was tax on the tea. I learnt that people from Boston are called

Bostonians. The Bostonians were mistreated as the British did not pay for the

things that they bought. Boston was the main place that the British brought their

supplies and took them around the U.S. I learnt that when they went to the tea

party they dressed as Indians. The rebellion against Britain was called 'The Sons

of Liberty'. There was a song that they sang at the tea party. It went like this:

"Rally Mohawks! Bring your axes, and tell King George we'll pay no taxes on his

foreign tea!" I learnt that America earned it's independence on July 4th 1776.

Text Features

The text features I used were… Table of contents, Index, Handy Hints, Maps,

Pictures/Caricature, and Glossary. The reason text features are important are

because they help you understand the text. For example if you read something

with a lot of hard and complicated words you might look at a picture or the

glossary (text features) and you could understand better.