Second day in Oakton High School

1st Period

Mr. Mcculla and Ms. Hovanec.

Class History and English combined. 66 studensts

Grade: Juniors (11th)

Students presented a group Project called Many stories in Oakton. Topics were chosen by themselves, for instance: Assumptions (people don’t know the reality of your life and they should stop making assumptions), Stress, opinions about Cougar time, exracurricular activities after class, stereotypes of clothing, Esol clases, Assumptions of vegetarian students, Oakton high school students, high school activities today, depression, 10 things boys want in a girl,

Some projects included surveys to get the conlcusions, podcast, pictures, posters, slides. They were posted on the walls of the classroom and the hallways and some sophomores participate in th exhibition.

Teachers concluded the class recognizing students effort and creativity. As well as the interaction they had. With this activity teachers could know more about their students and feelings. Then students shared their feelings about how they felt, what they learnt. And Also Ms. Hovanec encourage students to think about what can they do better next time. (rotational guidances, the owners of the Project should be explaining it and no just let others see it and understand it by their own)

3nd period 

Class: Strategies
Teacher: Ms. Jones


This class is special for students who came to the US recently and the don't know the language, how to be a student, how the log in in a computer, how to use effectively the time, among other topics.

Ms. Jones showed me an app called Recap for teacher, in which students can record themselves answering questions for instance: Tell me the days of the week, who is your favorite teacher? tell me three reasons. The videos are connected directly with the teacher's account and you can the progress on speaking the students have during the year.

5th Period
English level 2
Teacher. Dr. Cruz

Reading started with an observation of the cover of the book and then teacher read aloud the whole teaxt and students read one paragraph each one. Then independence reading, it starts every Monday. Students go on Book shopping and they selects seven books to read during the week and put them into a plastic box with their name. After 10 minutes they  complete the reading log  (name and author) about what they read and they classified in fiction or non-fiction text.

Then teacher showed in the Document camera  a wrong sentence and students observe it in detail and see what is wrong andg  For example: The word order, spelling, etc.


After that students work on spelling workshop and they filled in the blanks together with the teacher's guidance. Later they had another text to read and answer some comprehension questions and grammar issues as well.


6th Period
English level 4

Independent reading (10 minutes), Grammar topic: Either, Neither, and Subject-Verb Agreement
TED The danger of a single story: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story
With this video Dr. Cruz introduced her lesson. They talked about stereotypes and how our assumptions about people can be wrong and we can be surprised when we realize about the reality.
Students on the table discussed about this question: Since you have been in Oakton School, do you think that some people think you have a single story ?