Passage 1 Passage 2
In Passage 1, what do the underlined
phrases on page 3 suggest about economic
recovery?
In these passages, Presidents Ronald Reagan and
Barack Obama present solutions for dealing with a
recession. A recession is defined as a length of time
when the economy slows, businesses struggle, and
unemployment rates rise.
It will require the work of many people.
It will take a short time to accomplish.
Radio Address to the Nation
on the Program for Economic
Recovery-April 3, 1982
by President Ronald Reagan
It will take sacrifice to achieve it.
It will require a controlled response.
These aren't easy times for a great
many of you. Yesterday we were told that
unemployment has gone up another
two-tenths of 1 percent-equal to the
unemployment rate we had in 1975 as we
began to come out of that recession.
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Demonstrating understanding of jem's development one way to demonstrate understanding of character and theme is by writing from the perspective of a character. for this assignment, compose a short poem from the perspective of jem. your poem should detail his feelings about either a. his father, atticus or b. mrs. dubose. the poem must accurately trace the progression of jem's attitudes and beliefs, highlighting the important events and shifts in his perspective detailed above. your writing should also sound like jem, using voice and word choice that reflects the voice and word choice found in the novel. the poem can be a free poem (meaning it does not need to rhyme or follow a particular format). it should be a minimum of twenty-lines in length, have a title, and follow conventional rules of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.