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How did a Canadian hockey player from humble beginnings with poor vision become a successful athlete and owner of a chain of restaurants? Tim Horton used the same character traits in both sports and business to achieve his goals, on and off the ice: strength, persistence, responsibility, sportsmanship and perseverance. Overcoming a challenging childhood of poverty in a small Canadian mining town was not easy. Tim skated on any frozen water space he could find to practice and perfect his skills. His hard work helped him achieve athletic success in his early years including once scoring all the goals in a victory single-handedly! Tim even persevered in spite of impaired vision—nothing could blur his dreams! Learn how character and teamwork lead to championship in this inspiring issue of dreams come true.
In this issue future stars will:
- Read expository text about hockey player Tim Horton
- Use context clues to locate appropriate vocabulary words
- Calculate sums to discover how Tim helped his family
- Understand how character and teamwork helped overcome a visual impairment
- Use the newspaper to locate character traits that describe you
- Write an informational paragraph about Canada
- Edit for spelling errors in Tim’s biography
- Complete a newspaper character study
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