Chicago TFA Day 2

On the first day of going to the school, my partner, Lianna, and I got up at 6am because it took about an hour to commute to the school we were going to be working at. As cheap as it was to use public transportation in Chicago, it took a long time to get to places. We used the rail to get to downtown Chicago, where we then had to switch to another rail to take us to southwest Chicago, an area known for its poverty. Then, we had to get on a bus to finally arrive at our school. On the way there, I noticed the predominately Hispanic population in the neighborhood in which our school was at. I saw mainly Hispanic stores and restaurants. Once we went inside the school, we were immediately stopped by a security guard, who asked us what we were doing there, and this was something I had never seen before at a school.
It was really surprising how nice the school was. It was an all Hispanic school and the teachers mostly white so it was interesting being in that kind of situation. The teacher we were with was actually from Overland Park so it was cool getting to relate to her. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania so we had the utmost respect for her. She's a second year 7th grade math/science teacher and was really nice. When we were observing her class, we could definitely notice a lot of distractions among the students. A few of them had several side conversations and the teacher had to constantly call them out in the middle of class.
Since at this school, there was no library, each teacher had to have their own library for students. Our teacher combined books with the other 7^th grade teacher so that they could have a decently sized library. However, it takes a lot of time to help organize the books, so the teachers did not have much time to maintain the books. We spent most of the day leveling the books and organizing them. We spent the last part of the day helping the 7^th grade teachers with small groups and assisting them with homework.