Northern Illinois University first opened their doors in 1899 to train “college-educated teachers.” NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and is a public, four year university. NIU is home to over 20,000 students. Each year more than 10,000 prospective applicants apply and a little over 3,000 students are admitted to the university. The school offers...
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Persistent Parabolas
The Roberto Clemente Community Academy College Algebra students finished their unit on quadratics by seeking out and modeling parabolas found in the real world. Throughout the unit, students engaged in lessons where they often discovered rules that govern quadratics’ behaviors. For example, one lesson tasked the class with finding the formula of both of the...
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Inertia with Sir Issac Newton
This week in Science, Roberto Clemente Community Academy students got a chance to interact with one of Physics’ most famous figures, Sir Isaac Newton. After exploring Newton’s Laws of Motion through interactive multimedia Padlets featuring animations, videos, and interactive simulations, students brought their learning to life through a series of mini-lab stations that relied on...
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Inertia with Sir Issac Newton
This week in Science, Roberto Clemente Community Academy students got a chance to interact with one of Physics’ most famous figures, Sir Isaac Newton. After exploring Newton’s Laws of Motion through interactive multimedia Padlets featuring animations, videos, and interactive simulations, students brought their learning to life through a series of mini-lab stations that relied on...
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Stunning Sophomores
On November 22, Roberto Clemente Community Academy sophomore students celebrated the first quarter with an awards ceremony. Sophomores were released from their 4th period classes and spent 5th period celebrating their peers’ successes from the first quarter of the school year. Awards were given out for four different categories: attendance, high honor roll, honor roll,...
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Memory and the Middle East
For the past three weeks, Roberto Clemente Community Academy freshman English students have been learning about the Middle East and diving into Marjane Satrapi’s enthralling memoir, Persepolis. Before beginning the book, students read and analysed a text on the historical background of the Shah and the Iranian Revolution. Students have used this international background knowledge...
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Give 3k Food Pantry and Turkey Give Away 2016
The Give 3k Food Pantry and Turkey Give Away held at Roberto Clemente Community Academy on November 17th was a success. As a student, my experience organizing this food drive was unbelievable. I was able to take a small idea and turn it into a charity event for the community of Roberto Clemente Community Academy....
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The Clemente Classic
8 teams Chicagoland teams participated The Second Annual Clemente Classic basketball tournament. Held here at Roberto Clemente Community Academy, all teams played four games throughout the Thanksgiving break. Games continue throughout the weekend with the Championship played on Saturday. First and Second place will receive trophies, while 5 players will be selected for the All...
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“Let’s Get Personal!”
This week at Clemente, our sophomores are gearing up to start their personal projects and many of them are very excited about it. Personal project is an individual project for sophomore students that is designed to be independent study on a topic of their interest; it is an essential component of the IB Middle Years...