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The unit and lesson plan are a part of Preserving American Freedom , which presents and interprets fifty of the treasured documents within the vast catalog of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

In this project, documents are digitized with transcriptions and annotations, as well as with other user-friendly elements, that will help both teachers and students to better understand the materials in the lesson. A variety of traditional assessment styles can be applied to these readings. Traditional assessments can include a variety of quizzes multiple choice or fill in , an essay, or a short paper highlighting all three documents. Primary sources may also be incorporated into a larger paper, student presentation, or class discussion led by student based questions.

An alternative for those students who are unfamiliar with primary sources may be assessing notes taken during the reading to be used later as an open-notebook quiz. To assess core standards CC.

H and CC. I, one essay option would be to have students write a short persuasive essay pretending that the official national anthem is being chosen and arguing for why The Star Spangled Banner should be chosen over other patriotic songs America the Beautiful, God Bless America, etc.

Back in Baltimore, he completed the four verses PDF and copied them onto a sheet of paper, probably making more than one copy. A local printer issued the new song as a broadside. Shortly afterward, two Baltimore newspapers published it, and by mid-October it had appeared in at least seventeen other papers in cities up and down the East Coast.

Arranged by G. Friederich, the music is played as it would have been heard in Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. McKinley won his first Congressional seat at the age of 34 and spent 14 years in the House, becoming known as the leading Writer John Steinbeck was presented the U.

Medal of Freedom on September 14, Steinbeck had already received numerous other honors and awards for his writing, including the Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer Prize for Grapes of Wrath.

Steinbeck, a native Californian, On September 14, , Princess Grace of Monaco—the American-born former film star Grace Kelly, whose movie credits include The Country Girl and Rear Window—dies at the age of 52 from injuries suffered after her car plunged off a mountain road near Monte Carlo. During the height Millions of people evacuate their homes as Hurricane Floyd moves across the Atlantic Ocean on September 14, Over the next several days, deaths are recorded from the Bahamas to New England due to the powerful storm.

Floyd began as a tropical storm on September 7 and attained Crime and murder have been the subject of popular recorded music since the On September 14, , dancer Isadora Duncan is strangled in Nice, France, when the enormous silk scarf she is wearing gets tangled in the rear hubcaps of her open car.

On September 14, , the U. Douglas MacArthur, who was preparing to invade the Philippines.