In continuing to study about America, we completed a shared reading of, Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner by Monica Kulling. In this leveled reader, we discovered that Francis Scott Key was a poet and a lawyer. He was always helping others and was called on to help a friend during the War of 1812. From a ship, he watched the Battle of Fort McHenry go on for 25 hours. After the battle ended, he knew that since the flag was still standing at the fort, America was still free. This inspired his poem, which later became our National Anthem.