Use the Notebook tool () to take notes on the author’s purpose, audience, and any other information that you find important. Use the SOAPS method to analyze the text. SOAPS stands for speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, and subject. Identifying these five elements in an informational text can help you better understand the text.

Now, read President Roosevelt's address to Congress.

S= Roosevelt

O= Roosevelt to a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress

A= congress

P= to inform and to persuade  

S= the joint session

Explanation:

The New Deal coalition was the alignment of interest groups and voting blocs in the United States that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic candidates from 1932 until the late 1960s. It made the Democratic Party the majority party nationally during that period