Category: School News

“Ethos, Pathos, Logos: Rhetorical Analysis in Advertising” This week in the Diploma Programme Language and Literature class at Roberto Clemente Community Academy, students studied rhetorical analysis by analyzing a series of television commercials and print ads. They learned to identify and understand the difference between three rhetorical appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos. With this knowledge,...

Applying Newtonian Physics to Create Rube Goldberg’s By: Gillian Dryjanski In the true spirit of inventive, problem-solving scientists, the Clemente junior class concluded their unit on innovation and solutions by creating their very own Rube Goldberg machines. Inspirited by the famous cartoonist and his ludicrous designs, Rube Goldberg machines are complex, multi-step contraptions that accomplish...

Exploring Ideologies in Freshman World Studies This unit, freshmen are learning about World War II in world studies class. Students are investigating the ideology behind World War II, and specifically, the ideology held by the Nazis. Ideology means a set of ideas, beliefs, values, or goals that a person has. Students are currently exploring their...

Sophomores Bring their A-Game as Personal Project Deadline Approaches By: Eliza Bryant Sophomores are feeling the press as the due date approaches for a project they have been working on for months. In early October, sophomores began working on their IB Personal Projects– a requirement for all 10th graders in the IB Middle Years Program–...

Clemente’s Digital Leadership Corps: Teachers make Technology a Priority in the Classroom On Saturday, February 20, a group of Clemente teachers learned something life-changing: how to make a GIF. You may be wondering, What the heck is that? If you are, don’t worry, you’re no different than most of these teachers were just a few...

The Staff at Clemente High School are ‘Fulfilling the Dream’ Roberto Rivera, founder and leader of The Good Life organization, helped to share his insight and guidance with the Clemente staff and teachers this Saturday during a professional development opportunity about relationship building with students. The Good Life organization works with a group of our...

Over the past two weeks, De Diego, Clemente’s largest feeder school, has begun an intramural soccer program for grades Kindergarten through 5th. Nearly 75 students came out to the two, introductory clinics featuring skill work, scrimmages, team building, and more! The Clemente soccer team came out to support the program. They had a blast working...

Over the past two weeks, De Diego, Clemente’s largest feeder school, has begun an intramural soccer program for grades Kindergarten through 5th. Nearly 75 students came out to the two, introductory clinics featuring skill work, scrimmages, team building, and more! The Clemente soccer team came out to support the program. They had a blast working...

The Communication and Impact of Political Ideology By: Reem Fakhoury and Alyssa Jimenez In World Studies class, we have been focusing on political ideologies. We have been doing this by looking at government systems and propaganda. First, we went through readings on both ideologies and worked to understand these ideologies conceptually. We then examined some...

Applying Mathematical Concepts in IB Geometry to… Oreos! How are formulas discovered? Where does pi come from? These are the questions that students explored this week in geometry. Leading up to this week, students discussed in general terms the ideas of order and chaos, and how we can make sense of the world by noticing...