Category: School News

Student Filmmakers Win Big Roberto Clemente Community Academy’s CTE (Career and Technical Education) Broadcast Technology Program is pleased to share the accomplishments and achievements of its students. It has been a very productive year for our students with many proud moments. First, we’d like to congratulate junior student Louis Salgado for making the cut in...

Girls Varsity Soccer: The Battle of the Wildcats! On Wednesday April 7th, the Clemente Wildcats girls Varsity soccer team travelled down south to face off Conference rivals, Phillips Wildcats. This was the first Conference meeting for Clemente. On this rainy afternoon and with a rain soaked soccer field, nothing was going to stop the ClementeLady...

Urban Ekonomics – Legacy Scholarship Chicago-GRIT by Natalie Vazquez The Urban Ekonomics Project has sponsored a scholarship for Chicago Public School seniors who are interested in hard work and the promise of an excellent education. This scholarship was for students who were willing to go the extra mile and imagine opportunities that will allow them...

Monstrous Mutations Transform Our Freshmen Imagine suddenly being blind and physically unable to use your hands or legs. These are just some of the mutations our freshmen experienced firsthand in their Middle Years Program (MYP) Biology class this week. When students arrived to class, they saw the classroom transformed into an ecosystem where they would...

Monstrous Mutations Transform Our Freshmen Imagine suddenly being blind and physically unable to use your hands or legs. These are just some of the mutations our freshmen experienced firsthand in their Middle Years Program (MYP) Biology class this week. When students arrived to class, they saw the classroom transformed into an ecosystem where they would...

Karaoke in the Spanish Classroom By Cindy Alvarado In our unit on “La Ropa” (clothing), Clemente’s Spanish II Non-Heritage students explored the question, “How do clothes define who you are?” Students were expected to be communicating in Spanish (written and verbal) what clothing they like, wear, buy and what it says about them as a...

Title: “Discussing cussin’ in Catcher in The Rye” This week in Mr. Connor’s Junior English class, Wildcats have been identifying and analyzing profanity usage in the American classic The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the Rye shocked audiences in the 50’s and was banned for its “profane and obscene” language and themes. While...

Is Samsung a LIAR?! This week in DP Math Studies, students are putting their geometry and trigonometry skills to the test! Students watched a Samsung advertisement for an 80-inch television. The advertisement claims that the 80-inch television has “double the viewing area” of a 55-inch television. Students found this claim rather peculiar. How can a...

The Show Must Go On! Freshman students at Clemente have been tirelessly working on the production of Abe Koogler’s The Kill Floor, a play about an angsty teenage boy and his mother who reconnect after her stint in jail. When students first heard they would be putting on a play, the vast majority was skeptical,...

Learning How to Drive As the third quarter is quickly approaching its end, so is the Drivers Education Class for the JROTC 10th grade students. Throughout the quarter, students have been working towards discovering what the driving experience is all about by unpacking the connections between consequences and responsibilities that are created on the interactions...