"A New Day" is a one-page, fictional reading passage about children who learned about civil rights marches while visiting their grandfather in Mississippi. They helped people register to vote before President Obama was elected for the first time. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes skills such as sequencing, making inferences, finding the main idea, recognizing character traits, and summarizing. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standard 1 requiring close reading and textual evidence.