Task
Imagine you are a citizen living in Boston during the time leading up to and during the Boston Tea Party. Using the tools listed in the process section, use your detecitve skills to discover not only what occured during the Boston Tea Party, but what led up to it.
Your task is to write a diary entry from the perspective of a citizen in Boston during that time. As you start digging through the past to discover what happened, I want you to be thinking about who you would side with: the Loyalists, or the Patriots. This question needs to be answered in your writing. The diary can be written in the form of a letter to a relative, a letter to the government, a newspaper article, or a diary entry to yourself.
Your task is to write a diary entry from the perspective of a citizen in Boston during that time. As you start digging through the past to discover what happened, I want you to be thinking about who you would side with: the Loyalists, or the Patriots. This question needs to be answered in your writing. The diary can be written in the form of a letter to a relative, a letter to the government, a newspaper article, or a diary entry to yourself.