The Star Spangled Banner.ppt

1、The Star Spangled Banner,Grade 4 Social Studies Online,Grade 4: Governance and Civics,Blueprint Skill: Sing or recite “The Star Spangled Banner” and explain its history.,Origins of the Song,During the War of 1812, on September 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key visited the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay t

2、o secure the release of Dr. William Beanes, who had been captured after the burning of Washington DC. The release was completed, but Key was held by the British overnight during the shelling of Fort McHenry, one of the forts defending Baltimore .,Origins of the Song continued,In the morning, Key pee

3、red through clearing smoke to see an enormous American flag flying proudly after a 25-hour British bombardment of Fort McHenry. He was so delighted to see the flag still flying over the fort that he began a poem to commemorate the occasion, with a note that it should be sung to the popular British m

4、elody To Anacreon in Heaven.,History of the Song,In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ordered that it be played at military and naval occasions. In 1931, the Star-Spangled Banner became our national anthem.,The Star Spangled Banner Verse 1,Oh, say, can you see, by the dawns early light,What so proudly

5、we hailed at the twilights last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the perilous fight;Oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.Oh, say, does that star-span

6、gled banner yet waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave?,Verse 2,On the shore dimly seen, thro the mists of the deep,Where the foes haughty host in dread silence reposes,What is that which the breeze, oer the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it ca

7、tches the gleam of the mornings first beam,In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream;Tis the star-spangled banner: oh, long may it waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave,Verse 3,And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battles confusionA hom

8、e and a country should leave us no more?Their blood has washd out their foul footsteps pollution.No refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave.,Verse 4

9、,Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand,Between their loved homes and the wars desolation;Blest with victry and peace, may the heavn-rescued landPraise the Power that has made and preserved us as a nation.Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,And this be our motto: In God is our trust;And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave