Category: School News

Students in Mr. Van Loon’s AP Literature class participate in weekly “fishbowl” discussions. In a fishbowl, a group of eight to ten students lead the class in a discussion of the week’s reading. This week, students discussed the first section of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. “I like the ‘fishbowl’ format...

This quarter, students in PE II are focusing on making changes in our lives through frequent physical activity. We decided to step outside of the traditional team sports and focus more on exposing students to different activities that will encourage lifetime fitness changes and introduce them to something new. PE classes are currently working on...

Human trafficking is a global issue impacting all races, colors, and creeds. It is crucial that society sees the global impact of human trafficking, and understands the conditions that support this practice. Students in English IV are studying various forms of human trafficking such as forced labor, sex trafficking, bonded labor, debt bondage among migrant...

City Year’s Spring Break Camp is a fun and educational three-day getaway for freshmen that City Year Chicago runs during the spring school vacations. We provide a safe, engaging place for Clemente freshmen to go who may not otherwise have opportunities to learn and socialize when school is out. During the camp, corps members from...

The Clemente High School freshmen were honored to attend the production of “Romeo and Juliet” on March 24 as a culminating activity to their theater unit. Teatro Vista, one of the most prominent theater companies in the Midwest, offered a free performance of the play to specific schools so students could experience the transformative power...

Radio/TV Broadcasting is a 3-year job training program in which students learn how to create and edit a variety of formats, such as music videos and TV news reports. For the last few weeks we have been filming news reports about school events and have been usinglearning how to edit live videos. This week we’ve...

To what degree do authors write themselves into their own work? What role does “context” play? Can we ever truly recreate the past? Should possessions be the basis upon which we measure our success? These are the questions that sophomores at Clemente are discussing, debating, and writing about as they read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The...

Slavery ended with the Civil War. Or did it? Unfortunately, slavery still exists along with other human rights abuses. After studying similar abuses such as mutilation and torture during the war in Sierra Leone, students became curious about other issues and how the world, specifically the US, responded to them. So students set out on...

This quarter seniors are reading The Sunflower, by Simon Wiesenthal. The book is about Simon, a Jewish man imprisoned in a concentration camp, who is taken one day to the bedside of a dying Nazi soldier who asks Simon for forgiveness. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Simon is challenged...

During third quarter, Art I students explored themes of the Chicago-based Africobra arts movement from the 1960s. Students learned about the Civil Rights movement, how African-Americans were faced with inequality, and how Africobra members faced these issues by creating a uniquely black aesthetic within the visual arts. Student considered what it meant to create artwork...