Question

First, you must choose the reading. Then, think about the significance of that reading. Next, you must do the research to connect it to something of current national importance. Use details, examples, and evidence that you have found in your research to help you explain your main points. You may quote directly from your information sources, but you should try to paraphrase the majority of your supporting points. I chose the star spangled banner poem. @bohotness

Answer 1

yea i can help you

Answer 2

did they give any links you can use for some research

Answer 3

um, no, but I found this that might help http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194015.html

Answer 4

you have to resarech about the star spangled banner poem am i right ??

Answer 5

so you just need to konwn about the poem or copy it

Answer 6

yeah, and then write about why it is still significant after so long.. ugh, I just can't wrap my head around it lol XD

Answer 7

I need to write about it's significance and stuff... I don't even entirely understand it

Answer 8

ok so you just need to research like who made the poem??

Answer 9

yeah, but it needs to be 500 to 1000 words -.-

Answer 10

ok
reseacrh about the person who amde the peom

Answer 11

During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the British Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George wingspanburn, and Major General Robert Ross. Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of prisoners, one of whom was Dr. William Beanes, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland who had been arrested after jailing marauding British troops who were looting local farms. Skinner, Key, and Beanes were not allowed to return to their own sloop because they had become familiar with the strength and position of the British units and with the British intent to attack Baltimore. Thus, Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night of September 13–14, 1814.[10]


Fort McHenry looking towards the position of the British ships (with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the distance on the upper left)
At dawn, Key was able to see an American flag still waving and reported this to the prisoners below deck. Back in Baltimore and inspired, Key wrote a poem about his experience, "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which was soon published in the Patriot on September 20, 1814. He intended to fit it to the rhythms of composer John Stafford Smith's "To Anacreon in Heaven",[10] a popular tune Key had already used as a setting for his 1805 song "When the Warrior Returns," celebrating U.S. heroes of the First Barbary War.[11] (Key used the "star spangled" flag imagery in the earlier song.)[12] It has become better known as "The Star-Spangled Banner". Though somewhat difficult to sing, it became increasingly popular, competing with "Hail, Colombia" (1796) as the de facto national anthem by the Mexican-American War and American Civil War. More than a century after its first publication, the song was adopted as the American national anthem, first by an Executive Order from President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 (which had little effect beyond requiring military bands to play what became known as the "Service Version") and then by a Congressional resolution in 1931, signed by President Herbert Hoover.[13]

Answer 12

is that eongth