![]() ![]() ![]() What are the messages of this song? How suitable are these messages for our national anthem? Read the whole song and write what Key is saying in your own words. The anthem's first verse is so familiar that we don't listen anymore! Yet most of us have never heard the other verses. (Tell the story of Francis Scott Key's writing the "The Star-Spangled Banner.") Why was Key surprised to see the flag still flying over Fort McHenry after the battle? How had the War of 1812 been going for America? Words by Francis Scott Key tune "To Anacreon in Heaven," 1814 ![]()
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