Life in the City Student Teaching
These past two weeks have been very exciting at Chicago Semester. October 31 came and went and the students were all dressed up in school! It’s weird being too old to trick-or-treat. I know that I haven’t been able to for a while, but I really wanted some of the candy passing between the students.
One of the things we are required to do for Chicago Semester Student Teaching is to create an online portfolio. One part of that portfolio needs to consist of a video lesson. So over these past two weeks we all turned in video lessons. I didn’t really have an issue being video-taped but the whole process really took a long time.
Life in the City at Chicago Semester
With Halloween over and video-lessons turned in, we looked forward to the Hunger Banquet. The Hunger Banquet involved all of Chicago Semester students, faculty and staff, along with a few guests. Without our knowledge, we were placed in groups labeled upper-class, middle-class, lower-class and homeless. After hearing some facts about hunger within the Chicago-land area, we sat at our assigned "table": a five course meal for the upper-class; chicken legs, mashed potatoes, vegetables and dessert for the middle-class; chicken nuggets, beans and rice on the floor for the lower-class; and the homeless had to get their food, which was rice, from another room and beg for more food from others. It was a very thought-provoking, fact-filled evening that ended with us taking leftover food to homeless people on the streets of Chicago.
11/11/11 was not only Veteran’s Day but was also Citizenship Day for Chicago Semester. As the semester progresses, the general students and the student teachers at Chicago Semester spend less and less time together. So, not only was this a day for us to get together but also a time to volunteer. I went to the Urban Art Retreat in the North Lawndale neighborhood. The Urban Art Retreat is a place for under-noticed artists to display their artwork. It is also a place for people from the community to come and do arts and crafts as well as a place for woman in transition to board for a short while. There we cleaned areas that haven’t been cleaned for a while and we were invovled in a small “quilting” art project that will benefit the community.
Life in the City Outside of Student Teaching
Lastly, this past weekend I went with friends to the Haymarket Pub and to Forever Yogurt in the Wicker Park neighborhood with two other CS student teachers, Samantha and Samantha!
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