Mrs. CdM's 4th grade class wrote some poetry for their American Revolution Unit (combining some creative writing with some informative writing) inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride".
No Taxation!
Teacher Model
December, 1773
Witness the destruction
of gallons of tea
340 chestes, to be exact
Not a single tea leaf
was left intact.
A cry of protest
About unfair tax
Made it so the colonists
Could not relax.
But King George the Third
Did get word
And within him
Anger stirred
The colonists cost the king money
But Parliament didn't find it funny
It was time to punish the Boston traitors
With a series of laws that turned them into haters.
But the colonists could not stand by
And let those new laws fly.
They would fight for their freedom.
Let the British come!
The Boston Tea Party
By Azriel M.
The world's largest tea party
Was a dream
In December, 1773
Boston kept their tea hostage
Oh yes, it was a dream
A whole ship full of tea
Was a dream
340 chests of tea, so great
Oh, well.
There's no way the captain is going to let them unload all of that tea
At least the Sons of Liberty ain't going to let that stop them.
So they dumped it out
340 chests of tea
That's crazy
Maybe stop them...
Too late for that!
Too long, too far
Crazy things happen when you cannot stop the trouble
from the tragedy
300 years ago! That's crazy!
No more tea, all in the sea.
Chest of Tea
By Esperanza R.
The Sons of Liberty
Have some company
Three ships with tea stocked
At Boston Harbor docked
Dressed up as Native Americans
For more protection
And sent 340 chests of tea
Into the Atlantic Sea.
The Boston Tea Party
By Austin E.
Smell and you will smell
The smell, sweet smell, of tea
On December 1773
Three men barely alive
They dressed as Native Americans
And dumped 340 chests of tea
But they heard 40 birds
and from one of them fell a feather
and they gathered
as one of them devoured
and kept dumping the tea
as they need
as they fill the sea
as they dump with glee
as they fed the sea
then they schemed
because they saw the British
looking for their tea.