Question

Annotate the following passage from Franklin D Roosevelt's inaugural address. Be sure and include the following:1. a title that summarizes the passage2. notes in the margin or below the paragraph, perhaps including questions to which you'd like answers3. question marks or asterisks marking important information4. the underlining of important information5. any other marks or notes to help you understand the passage.
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

Answer 1

1. A title for this excerpt of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Inaugural Address is 'No Markets for their produce.' This title will help you to remember what this passage is about and remind you of the Great Depression's state.

2.Questions I'd like answered are:
After this excerpt, did he propose a solution? And did it work? (Obviously something did, but how long did that take?)
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3.**'the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side;'** This is a similie to understand or visualise the state of the economy. *; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade;​* Metaphor to show the weariness of the time.

​4. Our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income;..the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

5. ​​Some other marks that will help you understand the information are "In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income​..." This information is most important because it gives you not only a visual, but also an emotional feeling at that time.