Students in Ms. Makol’s Art 1 and Studio Art classes focused on digital art 3rd quarter, using iPads to capture digital photographs, using Weebly to create websites that showcase their work, and learning photo manipulation in Photoshop. To effectively create digital art, students learned both formal and technical skills; for example, they used formal compositional...
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Clemente Wildcats Jump To Victory in Boys Volleyball
Here at Clemente we work to cultivate academic values in all of our student athletes. Teachers and coaches work together in sessions called study tables every week to ensure students are focused on their class work first and foremost, and then get busy on the court or field. Study tables were especially important for the...
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Post-Secondary Options Mean More Than Just College
At Clemente, we believe that each student needs a post-secondary plan that fits their individual goals, in order for them to have the best chance at success. As this year’s seniors are making their final post-secondary choices, some students have decided to investigate programs outside of the traditional college setting. Here are their stories: Isaiah...
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HONORING TRADITIONS AND RENDERING HONORS
ROBERTO CLEMENTE JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS (JROTC) FLAG DETAIL Do you ever wonder why JROTC cadets raise the flag every morning and lower it at the end of the day? The members of the JROTC Cadet Flag Detail are keeping a long-standing military tradition. Since the days of army forts on the American frontier,...
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Busy Weekend for Clemente Archers
It was an early morning for our Clemente Archers last weekend at the Illinois State Archery Championship. This season has been rigorous, as the cadets have been competing every weekend since mid-January. This year’s team is very new and has seen highs and lows in their performance as they have been working to establish the...
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The Wonderful World of Wildcat Sports: Boys Varsity Baseball and Girls JV Soccer
As the spring approaches, we have two sports teams gearing up for new seasons, boys baseball and girls soccer. Let’s first take a look at our boys, who are excited to start a new journey on the field. We have some returning players from last year that are focused and poised to take on all...
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The Art of Making Art: Senior Art Exhibitions
The Diploma Programme Seniors are getting ready for their Visual Art Exhibition. The Senior Wildcats have been working hard this past year, focusing on a theme of their choice. They have explored different mediums and have done several artist studies where they explore the art-making process for creating their artwork. Students have explored artists from...
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Sophomore Campus Crawl
This past week our entire sophomore class embarked on an adventurous college trip that was not your average college tour. Students visited the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Benedictine University, and University of Chicago, where they participated in a campus-wide scavenger hunt for classes, campus landmarks, and all manner of university offices and academic...
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Clemente Freshmen Create Movies!
International Baccalaureate students in Individuals and Society classes are normally assessed on their ability to communicate using claims, evidence, and reasoning. For Unit 5, however, students were asked to be open minded to communicate using propaganda. Students spent the unit studying different types of propaganda; for example, they studied commercials, World War II historical posters,...