By Rachel Steffen and Marla Rosenberg
Can you imagine having your teacher locked in a bathroom? Well, that’s what happened when the Unschool went to Chicago for three days. Considering that there were 25 people along, ages 6–29, we really didn’t have many problems. We went to the top of the John Hancock Building (100 floors up). We went when the lights were just coming on. We could see 25 miles! At the museum of Sceince and Industry we went to the Submarine U-505, the only Man-of-War captured since the 1930’s. The Amercian’s captured the German Sub jus off the African coast. While we were there we visited the Shed aquarium. We also went to the Field Museum, there were two stuffed eleaphanets in the Main hall. We went to the Lincoln zoo at feeding time. On the drive back we stopped at New Salem were Lincoln lived for 2 years. When we were about 60 mile outside of St. Louis we came upon thousands of thousands of Birds. We could hardly see the sky.
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by Rachel Steffen and Marla Rosenberg
By Julie Schlaepfer
The Neatest Part of The Trip was when we went to our teacher’s mother and father home. We had spigetti and saw a movie of Japan. We also went to the field museum, where there were two elephants fighting and bones of Tronasores rex and much more. There were little modles of the way indians used to live, and a fake gorila and other fake animals. I was worried that they were killed and stuffed, until sombody told me they were all fake. We also went to the zoo. and saw the mokeys and gorilas and lions and tigers, The gorila was playing monkey see monkey do. We got to see the lion get his food. We also went in the Shed Aquarium. We saw the Diferint kinds of fish. Ther wher sharks and seals and man-or-rays. There are so many I can’t name them all. We also went up in the John Hancock center. It’s the second Highest Bilding in the USA. It has 100 floors. On the way back from Chicago we saw a gigantic flock of birds much more than 500, mabe even 1000 — then we got back to school.
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by Julie Schlaepfer
Original photograph caption
Original group photograph printed with the Unschool Chicago trip accounts, The Paper, April 1973, page 6. No individual caption or photographer credited.
Originally published in The Paper, April 1973.
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Original source: SD_Times1973_04.pdf, printed page(s) 6.
