Question

Help on question about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Inaugural Speech? I provided the speech here.

Answer 1

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Inaugural Speech — Text Version

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, and will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 2

Question: Imagine that you are filling out a graphic organizer that outlines Roosevelt's main ideas. List a main idea from the beginning, one from the middle, and one from the end of the speech. Use at least one sentence for each main idea.

Answer 3

Main Idea: the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about.

Let's go step by step.
What do you think is the main idea of the first paragraph?

Answer 4

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Hmm. This is too short to do this on but we will need to anyway.