This resource includes the annotated text and marginal notes for President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s speech about the deaths of over 500,000 Americans from COVID-19 on February 22, 2021. The included zipped folder also includes a copy of the speech without annotations and marginal notes so that you can reproduce it for students so that they can annotate it. Reading and annotating informational texts is a critical component of the Common Core State Standards, and analyzing informational texts is a k