Students will be able to analyze FDR's Inaugural Speech in order to compose a paragraph identifying key points of the speech, while relating the information to today's real world.
Materials
Pencil and Paper
FDR defines America
Below, you will have the opportunity to read and listen to Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural speech from March 4th, 1933. During this speech, FDR states the following, "...let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself..." In the previous read it, you learned that the United States had fought two World Wars up to the 1960s, and that as a country, we had rebuilt ourselves from the fall of the Great Depression.
After reading and listening to FDR's speech, write one paragraph