Great Chicago Stories: High School Students
Enrich your instruction with Great Chicago Stories, an award-winning suite of twelve historical fiction narratives and supporting classroom resources. Download the narratives and unit plans, which were written and classroom-tested by local teachers. Use the interactive history map to click on then-and-now images of locations from each narrative. Investigate historical evidence using question prompts and zooming tools. Listen to full audio recordings of all twelve stories.
Stories for grades 9 to 12
- Abolitionist Movement in Chicago: “Halfway to Freedom”
- Public Housing and White Flight: “Where the Neighborhood Ends”
- Labor and the Haymarket Affair: “His Father’s Namesake”
- Progressivism, Hull-House, and Immigration: “Angelo’s Saturdays”
- Great Migration and the Jazz Age: “It’s a Long Way from Home”
- Political Activism and the 1968 Democratic National Convention: “Peace”
