Please listen to the video of America. What do you think the words means? What is it talking about? Let’s read the words of the first verse together and

figure it out!

Define- Tis, Thee, Liberty, Freedom, My Fathers, Pilgrims Pride    

     

Now that we’ve figured out what the songs means, let’s see if we can learn the first verse together!

   

Did you know that even though Reverend Samuel Francis Smith wrote the lyrics to America (My Country Tis of Thee) in 1831, the melody

was written many years before that? The melody was claimed to have been written in London 1740. It was originally call God Save the King and

was written in honor of King George of England.

Learn more at the link on the 1st grade webpage.    

     

Let’s  listen  to  and  read  the  national  class  America  the  Beautiful.      

     

 

     

Let’s  go  over  some  of  the  words  and  phrases  that  we  might  not  understand.    

Spacious  skies,  amber  waves  of  grain,  purple  mountain  majesties,  fruited  plain  

   

There  are  so  many  beautiful  things  across  American.    After  watching  the  video,  what  are  some  of  the  beautiful  things  that  you  noticed?    What  are  some  of  the  beautiful  things  that  you  know  about  in  where  you  are  from?    Draw  2  pictures  and  write  2  

sentences  to  go  with  them.      

 

   

Do you know what the name our national anthem is?  

   

Listen  to  the  song  and  read  the  lyrics.    What  are  some  of  the  words  that  you  don’t  know?    What  do  you  think  the  song  is  talking  about?  

   

     

Did you know that the words to the Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key as he watched a battled through the window of the enemy ship he was being held prisoner on. When he woke-up in the morning, the American flag was still waving. He was so inspired that wrote down a poem. This poem was later put

to music became our National Anthem.

   

     

Imagine that you are in Francis Scott Key’s shoes. What do you think you would have seen through the window on the ship during the bombardment of Fort William McHenry? Please draw what

you are imagining.