"Grant Park" is a one page, nonfiction passage about Chicago creating a landfill by putting the trash from the Chicago fire in 1971 into the lake, on which they built Grant Park. It is followed by an open-ended question which requires students to provide evidence from the story; it includes writing a paper about why parks are important to a city using textual information and their own ideas to support ideas. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.

Concepts

close reading, chicago

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Additional Tags

city parks, parks, "grant park", common core anchor reading standard 1 and 2, depaul university, depaul university: center for urban education: grant park, great chicago fire 1871

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)