Author: RCCA (RCCA )

As we wrap up Unit 1, Clemente juniors in law classes are practicing their argumentative and evaluative skills as they each play a role in a class mock trial. Using real crimes, real courtroom roles, and real argumentative strategies, students will put characters from a fictional story, adapted from the Arabian Nights, on trial. Students...

In 2014, Esther Honig asked photographers from 40 different countries to use Photoshop to make her beautiful in the eyes of their country and culture. Photoshop is a software program that allows photographers to manipulate and edit images to their liking. This is the original, unaltered photograph she sent out to various photographers in other...

This week freshmen at Roberto Clemente Community Academy focused on solving for variables in algebra class through algebraic equations, interactive computer games, and real life problems. Students started off the week by breaking apart equations by identifying variables, constants, and like terms within each problem. Students applied the steps necessary to solve for specific variables....

As a representative of Clemente, I was asked to attend the Mikva Challenge Aldermanic Youth Council. Upon investigating, I learned that this council was a partnership with my neighborhood’s 35th Ward Alderman, Mr. Carlos Ramirez Rosa, and that it teaches young adults about the decision making processes in our neighborhoods. I was somewhat intimidated at...

As a representative of Clemente, I was asked to attend the Mikva Challenge Aldermanic Youth Council. Upon investigating, I learned that this council was a partnership with my neighborhood’s 35th Ward Alderman, Mr. Carlos Ramirez Rosa, and that it teaches young adults about the decision making processes in our neighborhoods. I was somewhat intimidated at...

Unit 1 of the school year in English 3 has been full of reflections, connections, and investigations! Over the past five weeks, juniors have been busy digging into one of the most popular novels in American literature: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Given that the main character of the novel, Holden Caulfield,...

Throughout history, numerous activists have told their stories to an audience with the intention of making things better for the future. As we wrap up Unit 1, students in English II at Roberto Clemente Community Academy are hard at work writing non-fiction stories about their own life-changing experiences with the objective of making an impression...

  Roberto Clemente Community Academy is in the midst of reviving the band program with the Class of 2020. In the first weeks of school, we examined the various woodwind and brass instruments to understand their defining characteristics and how a sound is produced. Students explored genres that have traditionally incorporated these instruments in their...