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Name The Midnight Ride

Author’s Purpose
• The author’s purpose is the reason or reasons the author has for writing.
• An author may write to persuade, to inform, to entertain, or to express feelings and ideas.

Directions Read the passage. Then answer the questions below.

I n 1773, American colonists held the

Boston Tea Party, raiding three British
ships in Boston Harbor. They dumped
more than three hundred crates of British
tea into the water. They were protesting
England’s taxes on the American
colonies. Eight months earlier, the British
government had created a tax on all tea
shipped from England to America. The
colonists were furious. On the night of
December 16, 1773, approximately one
hundred colonists led by Samuel Adams
stormed the British ships waiting to
unload their tea. By dumping all the tea
into the harbor, the colonists let the king
know that they would not stand for his
high taxation.

1. What is the author’s purpose in this passage?

2. What happened as a result of the English tax on tea in the American colonies?

3. List some facts you learned about the Boston Tea Party in this passage.
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4. What words or phrases does the author use to show how upset the colonists were with the
English taxes?

5. In your opinion, is the author’s purpose achieved? Why or why not?

Home Activity Your child analyzed the author’s purpose in a passage about the Boston Tea Party. Ask your
child to describe an event that happened at school. After he or she has finished, ask your child to explain
the purpose in describing the event. Was it to inform, persuade, entertain, express himself or herself, or a
combination?

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Name The Midnight Ride

Subject-Verb Agreement
Directions Add a verb to complete each sentence. Be sure to use the correct verb form.

1. The Liberty Bell ____________________ a well-known American symbol.

2. It in the Liberty Bell Center in Philadelphia.

3. Many tourists this site.

4. the bell ever ring?

5. No. A crack up the side of the bell.

6. The main metals in the bell copper and tin.

7. The bell 2,080 pounds.

8. Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania.

9. More than a million and a half people there.

10. Tourists the many historic sites in Philadelphia.

Directions Circle the verb that agrees with each subject. Then write sentences using at least three of
the subject-verb pairs.

11. class is studying are studying

12. historic site inspire inspires

13. teacher tell tells

14. some students sing sings

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15. they is are

16. I feel feels

Home Activity Your child learned how to write subjects and verbs that agree. Ask your child to make
up sentences in the present tense describing favorite animals, first using a singular subject, then a plural
subject (dog/dogs, lion/lions, and so on).

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