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Star Spangled Banner: Creative Writing Activity

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Star Spangled Banner: Creative Writing Activity preview
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Star Spangled Banner, Our National Anthem cover with an engraved portrait set over a worn, faded American flag
Title page to open the national anthem writing lesson
Teacher directions: hand out two pages back to back so students rewrite the anthem in modern-day words; print or Drive
Read before class to plan the in-class or take-home rewrite
First anthem verse with an 11-word glossary (rampart, perilous, gallant) students use to translate it into modern words
Front side: read the verse and vocabulary together before writing
Anthem rewrite: students translate The Star-Spangled Banner into their own understandable, modern-day version
Back side: students draft their modern-language rewrite
All four verses of The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key, printed in full so students can read past verse one
Optional enrichment reading on the lesser-known verses
Attributes
Grades

Grade 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Types

Activities

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
Mister Harms
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About This Product

Are you needing some excellent ideas for a substitute teacher or those times when you need something fast? This Star Spangled Banner: Creative Writing will give students the opportunity to translate the national anthem from their own perspectives.

What's Included

1 PDF file with:

-Printable format

-Google Drive access to be assigned to student

-1 page for creative writing

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