Why did they not buy American teapots?
3. Divide the class into three groups High, Middling, and Low. Ask students to look at the teapot for their respective group and have them describe what they see and offer an initial annotation of their assigned teapot. • Low: Earthenware Tea Set is imported and cheaper in cost, linked from the Metropolitan Museum. • Middling: Choates Porcelain Tea Pot, from EDSITEments Smithsonian National Museum of American History is imported and more expensive in cost. (To see the teapot place mouse pointer on arrows until you see the teapot and click on the image.) • High: John Singleton Copleys portrait of Paul Revere Portrait with Silver Tea Pot, 1768 (American made, expensive; no. 2-A in the Picturing America portfolio), from Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Listen to the audio clip by Malcolm Rodgers the director of BMFA on the significance of the Sons of Liberty bowl and the portrait. The section of the Teachers Resource Book devoted to this portrait will also be useful for teachers, as will the N
