Author: RCCA (RCCA )

Financially Preparing for the Future: The Wentcher Scholarship by Rosaly Gonzalez The mission of the Wentcher Foundation is to provide college scholarships to Chicago high school seniors based on the student’s’ academic merit, financial need and character. The Wentcher Foundation will award 50 plus renewable scholarships valuing up to $10,000 per year to Chicago seniors...

Learning about the Conservation of Energy through Roller Coasters! This unit, the Physics students have explored concepts of kinetic, potential and gravitational energy through the lens of roller coasters. Physics classes have investigated how altering roller coaster hills, mass of the roller coasters and the intricate designs behind roller coasters changes its energy; moreover, they...

Learning Author’s Purpose & Main Idea Through the Beatles It’s so much fun to learn about literary elements through music! When analyzing John Lennon’s song “Imagine” one day in class, Mr. Keddy, a charismatic history teacher from Ireland, popped into the room after hearing the song. He joined our class discussion and helped students gain...

Boys Basketball Wraps Up One of Its Best Seasons The Boys Basketball Team finished their season off in the IHSA Playoffs with a loss against Wauconda High School at St. Patricks High School in the Regional Semi-Finals. The Boys battled to a 65-61 loss. Junior Jamaul Perdue led the team in scoring with 21 points,...

Researching Colleges: North Park University North Park University was founded by the Evangelical Covenant Church in 1891. It is a small private university that is located on the north side of Chicago (Foster Ave. and Kedzie Ave.) It services 3,200 students from all over the country and world. Even though it’s a small private university,...

Kill Floor-The Power of Play For the past two weeks all of the freshman students at Roberto Clemente High School have been engaged in the Mosaic Program through the American Theater Company (ATC). This is a program in which ATC partners with Clemente and selects theater teaching artists and apprentices to go into the classroom...

A Temporary Congresswoman Jaileen Almonte Put yourself in someone else’s shoes and then you will understand what they going through. That is what I have learned in my Advanced Placement U.S Government and Politics class these past few weeks. During that time, we were assigned roles representing a senator or representative, a state or district,...

Counting by Weighing By: Celene Hernandez How do you order meat at the deli? By the slice? How do you buy fruit? Of course you purchase these items by weighing them! This unit, Sophomore IB Chemistry students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy learned about the concept of counting by weighing. Counting by weighing involves counting...

“Dystopia, language, and perception in The Handmaid’s Tale” This week students have been identifying and analyzing neologisms and appropriated words in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Juniors in Mr. Connor’s English-3 class have been hard at work analyzing dystopian societies to consider how we ought to organize our communities. Dystopian literature features authoritarian governments...

Clemente’s BAM program featured on Chicago Tonight Original Post: http://www.pbs.org/video/2365674858/