Excerpt from FDR's First Inaugural Address

In the first of his four inaugural addresses, Franklin D. Roosevelt asserted that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He also punned on his first name to present hard truths to the country about the Great Depression.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Crucible, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The New England Primer, The Trial of Martha Carrier, The Lessons of Salem, The Very Proper Gander, Declaration of Conscience, Why I Wrote The Crucible, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, Speech to the Virginia Convention, The Gettysburg Address, FDR's First Inaugural Address , JFK's Inaugural Address