Meet Miss Cordes

Hello everyone!  My name is Amanda Cordes and I am a high school English teacher at West Chicago Community High School.  This is my third year working at CHS and I love it here!  Our high school is full of intelligent, hard working, diverse students that make my job a dream come true.  Thank you students, families, parents, and community members for making CHS such a great place to work.  I hope this website helps each and everyone of you enhance your learning through each of the units we study in class.  




EDUCATION:
Graduated 2004 - Neuqua Valley High School
Graduated 2008 - Illinois Wesleyan University (Bachelor's degree: English)

**CURRENT**  2010-2012:  

Concordia University Chicago 

(Masters: ESL/Bilingual & Curriculum Instruction)

HONORS & AWARDS:
Golden Apple Scholar 2004
IWU Academic Scholar
IWU Dean's List

INTERESTS & HOBBIES
Reading and writing!
Poetry (reading and writing)
Watching The Office and Lost
Playing soccer
Traveling (especially South America & Mexico!)

INVOLVEMENT AT CHS
Co-Director of the CHS Creative Writing Program

   ** Cafe Express YoSelf!
  ** Show Me Watchu Got!
Snowball Adult Leader

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office 308 ~~  Classroom 322
Email: acordes@d94.org

At Prom 2011

Some of my favorite things: coffee, cooking, being outside and reading!

With my girlfriends in Mexico

Creative Writing field trip to The Bean in Chicago!

Riding a cable car in San Francisco with my mom

Early morning fishing with my dad

Our special beach spot in Grand Haven, Michigan

My dogs Buster and Razzle (RIP)

My precious kittens Penelope & Odysseus