Freshmen students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy have begun a study of the quadratic function, an equation that explains architecture, technology, and movement of objects all around us in the natural world. By using real world representations of the quadratic function in the form of the parabolic curve—found in archways, bridges, satellite dishes and...
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The Amazing Race!
With the school year coming to an end, it is important for us to reflect on our growth while also thinking towards our future. With post-secondary investigation and planning being a large focus here at Clemente, it is important to us that students are not only learning academics within their classrooms but also exploring their...
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Unmaking A Murderer?
Making a Murderer, a documentary about a court case many are familiar with became a popular show when it was released by Netflix in 2015. But what really happened in that case? Was the documentary truthful? Roberto Clemente Community Academy’s law students explored the court cases behind the film in order to determine for themselves...
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Storytelling Through the Voices of Veterans
Clemente Juniors are exploring the art of storytelling through Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a novel comprised of short stories capturing the experiences of young soldiers in the Vietnam War. English III students began this unit by learning about the war and Vietnamese culture. At this point in the novel, students are diving deeper...
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Mi Información
In our current unit in Spanish I for non-Heritage speakers, students are targeting IB MYP Objective C: Communicating in response to spoken and written text. At the end of this unit, students should be able to respond appropriately to, interact in, and utilize vocabulary and phrases related to everyday topics. Students started the unit by...
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Wildcats study statistics and probability
Junior students at Roberto Clemente Community Academy are learning more about the ways in which data can be represented and analyzed this unit. Through the study of statistics and probability, students are exploring the power of numbers in everyday life. Clemente Wildcats began the unit with an overview of the kinds of data (qualitative vs....
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Classick Studio Opens Doors to Clemente Students
On Monday, May 1st, I had the pleasure going with Jaden Knox to Humboldt Park’s Classick Studios. There Jaden and one other student from Gary Comer Academy had the unique privilege of sitting down with the studio’s creator, Chris Inumberable. Chris has worked with some of Chicago’s biggest artists, such as Chance the Rapper, lil...
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Clemente Wildcats Discover Law: Field Trip to John Marshall Law School
By: Barbara Jimenez Since I was small, my desire has been to become a lawyer. I am specifically fascinated with Family Law because it is a profession where your job is to counsel families that need assistance. My first exposure to the law was in the eighth grade, where I participated in a mock trial....
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Clemente Wildcats Never Give Up
Clemente has it’s fair share of student-athletes, and the Boys Volleyball team carries out the roles of both student and athlete very well. Of the 14 students on the varsity roster, 5 are currently maintaining a mix of A’s and B’s. Sophomore and team captain Archie Cunningham, and fellow teammate Gio Giles are among that...
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Logging Logarithm Rules (Because Logs Rule)
Over the past several weeks, some of the seniors at Roberto Clemente Community Academy have been studying a unit on exponential functions. The classes have been examining these functions through different lenses, including real world modelings, such as modeling population growth (and decline) and interest rates. A key component of working with exponential functions are...