Looks like we're on a patriotic track here, so will stay with it for a bit.  I mentioned a while ago that I'd be showcasing a couple of patriotic teaching moments.  One I already highlighted as having occurred during the Boston Pops 4th of July performance at the Esplanade.  You'll have to read it to find out about that patriotic teaching moment. The 2nd "teaching moment" was just something that a friend made me aware...

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As a footnote to my previous post, Patriotic Teaching Moments, Part 1, and in honor of the 200th anniversary of Francis Scott Key's penning of The Star Spangled Banner, I thought I'd give a bit of the history of our National Anthem and provide the "lost verses" ... as information and for reflection. Francis Scott Key actually penned the poem that would become our National Anthem on September 13, 1814.  It was the War of...

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