"Chicago High Schools" is a one page, nonfiction passage about Chicago high schools, including a variety of specialty high schools and the basic requirments met by all of their high schools. It is followed by an open-ended question which requires students to provide evidence from the story; it includes underlining the most important information in each paragraph and then writing a summary of the passage using evidence from the text. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1, 2, and 7 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, integrating ideas from different sources, and summarizing.