CaCO3Girl posted:RJM posted:CaCO3Girl posted:I had a very energetic music teacher in elementary school that acted out Francis Scott Key stuck in a room asking everyone around him if they could look out the window and see which flag stood, the only light in the pitch black night was from the bombs bursting in the air. He knew if the star spangled banner was no longer standing they had lost, so they each kept a lookout all night long waiting to catch a glimpse of which flag was still there. It was all about a guy looking for a flag.
I grew up in NJ and now I live in Georgia, and I am raising my children here. It was interesting to help my children study an entirely different take on the civil war than what I learned in school. Opinions and even facts are hued by who's glasses you are looking through.
Are you talking about the northern oppression of the south?
lol yup. I wasn't saying the star spangled banner was written during the civil war I'm saying when I went to school in New Jersey the main reason taught for the north vs south civil war was slavery. The main cause, according to Georgia text books, were the taxes that the north imposed.
Like I said, even facts can be hued by who's glasses you are looking through.
Caco one year to teach just what you said I brought in chapters from a British, Russian and Chinese textbook regarding the American Revolution. It was fascinating how much the accounts differed with our own textbook. I tried my best to teach kids that propaganda is everywhere - including here - and wading through history is not always as straight forward as it may seem. But at the end of the day all you have to do is travel a bit and you will find that with all our problems we are still very lucky to live in the USA. And the flag and anthem are symbols of a country that has afforded us this great opportunity. A good person respect that while of course always trying to make things better.