<p>How many classes do you have a year and how long are they? I find my school's schedule kind of weird. We have 4 classes a day, each being a little more than 80 minutes. Yea it's long, especially with the long lectures! Most courses are a semester long; except AP courses, US History (junior year), and freshman and sophmore math. Gym and health is combined in one semester call integrated health. We use to have six classes a day, but that changed with budget cuts and fewer electives available.</p>
<p>It's weird, compared to other schools, but I actually like it. The day goes by faster.</p>
<p>Classes are one hour long. We have three classes, unit lunch, three classes. We have four morning courses that rotate on a four-day cycle, and four afternoon courses that rotate on the same cycle. Everyone has lunch at the same time, and almost all courses are year-long.</p>
<p>For 6-credit course, you have lab when that course is adjacent to lunch and you are in class for an extra 20 minutes (ie if you have chem period 3, you have lab on 1 days, so you stay 20 minutes after class and go to lunch late)</p>
<p>My school goes on a block scheduling. We have A days and B days and there's four blocks (classes) each day and each one last 90 minutes. All of the core (english, math, science, and social studies) classes are a year long, except some math classes on the intro track and trigonometry. Health and PE last all year and we alternate between them every 2 weeks (or 5 class sessions). And most of the electives last a year, but some are a semester long but most have an accompanying elective that follows the next semester (so if you sign up for one, you're also signing up for the other)</p>
<p>i guess it's a pretty easy system once you get used to it.</p>
<p>You can have up to 14 classes a year (7 period a day, semester), but normally you have 4-5 core classes that last all year. The classes run about 52 minutes w/ 4 minutes inbetween. So, our day is like:</p>
<p>8:15 - first period
9:11 - second period
10:03 - third period
10:55 - period
11:34 - lunch (small school, we have one lunch where we can choose to eat on or off campus)
12:43 - fifth period
1:35 - sixth period
2:27 - seventh period
3:15 - school OVER!!!</p>
<p>Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday:
Period 1
Period 2
Monday and Thursday: Morning Meeting, Tuesday: Advisee Group meetings, Friday: Club Meetings
Short break to hang out, do homework, buy junk food from the cafe, etc.
Period 3
Period 4
Period 5A and 5B: Everyone has either A or B free for lunch each day, sometimes both. But if you only have once lunch, you have a class during the other period.
Period 6
Period 7
Sports practices/Sports Classes/Play rehearsals</p>
<p>Wednesday:
Period 1
Period 2
Assembly Period
Short break again (if the assembly doesn't run long)
Period 3
Period 4
Lunch until whenever your team practice or play rehearsal starts.</p>
<p>Each period is 50 minutes long. The 5th period you have class in is 50 minutes long and then your lunch period is 30 minutes. If you have double lunch, both periods are 50 minutes long. </p>
<p>Freshmen and Sophomore history courses, Junior and Senior English classes, most arts and computer courses, Psychology courses, some upper-level science courses, and few required courses are all one semester long. Everything else is for both semesters.</p>
<p>we can have up to 8 courses a year....and we work on the year-round system, not semestered....</p>
<p>sooo a day;s schedule goes like this:
8:30 - 9:15 = attendance, assembly/chill out with friends time :D
9:15 - 10:30 = Course A
10:30 - 10:45 = Recess
10:45 - 12:00 = Course B
12:00 - 1:00 = lunch
1:00 - 2:15 = Course C
2:15 - 3:30 = Course D</p>
<p>Then the next day is the same thing, except with the other four courses....but wednesday's alternate...kinda hard to explain actually...lol
well anyways...its not as bad a scheduling system it might seem.....personally i like it :)</p>
<p>Do all you guys have AP classes that are the same length as regular classes?? I have AP Biology for the whole year, meeting 80 minutes a day, and we can barely get through everything in detail. Towards may, we'll be cramming the last 5 chapters in the 47 chapter book.</p>
<p>yeah our AP classes are the same length as our regular classes...except for some of the more "intense" APs like bio chem and calc, we have to take double the number of periods for one course....so it's like we'll have a Chem study period (regular length) and then a seperate Chem Lab/AP tutorial period (also regular length)...
...yeah. :)</p>
<p>We can have as many courses a year as we can work through - it's a private school where everyone works at their own pace. For instance, we have thirteen days left until the end of second quarter; I have maybe two points (one point = thirty minutes of work for most students) left until I finish the semester of Government/Civics, but just finished the first quarter of Spanish a week ago.</p>
<p>8:30-9:15 - 1st Period
9:20-10:05 - 2nd Period
10:05-10:20 - Break
10:20-11:05 - 3rd Period
11:05-11:45 - Lunch (middle schoolers used to have a seperate lunch, but now it's joint)
11:45-12:25 - 4th Period (Family Group)
12:30-1:15 - 5th Period
1:20 -2:05 - 6th Period
2:10-2:50 - 7th Period</p>
<p>each student is assigned one of the three lunch periods (anyone in AP Science is defaulted to 5th, which they enter midway). 7th and 8th period switch off every day. We have a six day cycle for tests and labs (for non AP sciences).</p>
<p>Block. A and B day. We have 4! lunches because some people can't throw away their trash. for 3rd block, we either go to lunch then go to class, go to class the go to lunch, OR go to class for a bit, go to lunch, and then go back to that class. IT'S SO RETARDED! ugh.</p>
<p>7:35 - 8:55 First Block
9:00-10:20 Second Block
10:25-10:55 I-Block (homeroom)
11:00-12:53 Third Block (Lunch is during this time)
12:58-2:18 Fourth Block</p>
<p>Two semesters, most courses are one semester with the exception of certain English classes and Advanced Placement courses.</p>