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Goal-Setting Reading Passages
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Celebrate New Year’s Day with a look back at the Times Square ball drop, a historical-fiction arrival story set on Ellis Island, and a simple goal for the year ahead. Mark the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and explore its connection to the history of freedom.
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New Year’s Day is a time when many people welcome a fresh start. Read about the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop, then use a goal-setting passage to choose one small learning goal and a first step.
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Open collectionExplore this topic through Small Gains, Big Goals: John’s Soccer Journey.
Read passageExplore this topic through Mastering Your Future: A Guide to SMART Goals.
Read passageDiscover Times Square and the New Year’s Eve ball drop.
Read passageExplore how setting a goal and taking small steps can help students make progress.
Read passageLearn how specific goals and practical plans can help turn an idea into action.
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Read a historical-fiction story about an immigrant family arriving on Ellis Island in 1910. Explore their journey and discuss the choices they make in a new place.
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Open collectionFollow an immigrant family’s fictional arrival at Ellis Island in 1910.
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On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. Explore the proclamation and its connection to the long struggle for freedom.
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Explore this topic through Rights & Reformers Reading Passages.
Open collectionUse Juneteenth: How News of Freedom Reached Texas as related background or for comparison.
Read passageUse Frederick Douglass: From Bondage in Maryland to National Voice of Freedom as related background or for comparison.
Read passageRead how the proclamation relates to Juneteenth in Texas.
Read passageExamine how a later order enforced the proclamation in Texas.
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Visit Times Square! describes the Times Square ball drop on New Year’s Eve. Invite readers to sequence the celebration, then share a New Year tradition of their own. Choose a manageable learning goal with The Power of Purpose or The Science and Art of Setting Goals, and write down a first step.
Ellis Island Arrival is a historical-fiction story set in 1910. Readers can trace the family’s arrival and discuss the choices they face. Explore New York on the New York map.
On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. In Juneteenth: A Day to Remember Freedom and Reading General Order No. 3, explore how the proclamation connects to the history of freedom in Texas.
