<p>I'm just curious how the American highschool curriculum differs from the Canadian one. For example here in BC, we are in a linear trimester system and take 8 course for the whole year. </p>
<p>So a typical grade 11 schedule from September to June could look like:
1. Math 11 Principles
2. French 11
3. Social Studies 11
4. Biology 11
5. Chemistry 11
6. Physics 11
7. English 11
8. Law 12</p>
<p>4 classes a day for us, each 1h20 in length, with blocks 1-4 on one day, and the rest on the other.</p>
<p>So how this system compare to the USA's system?</p>
<p>It really depends on where you go to high school. For example, I go to a private high school with days similar to yours (1h20m per class, 4 classes a day).</p>
<p>My schedule next year is much different than someone in a public school, or a different private school. At my school, we take all core classes (English, history, math, science, and a language), plus 2 electives and 1 religion class (electives/religion are 1 trimester in length). I take an extra years worth of elective though (1 more class a trimester), Korean at community college, and self study Japanese. Most people don’t though… :P</p>
<p>You take 3 sciences in 1 year? o.O
At my school, we take physics freshman year (weird), Chemistry sophomore year, and biology junior year. The order really varies in the US. Some people double up, but students rarely (I believe) triple up.</p>
<p>Freshman and sophomore just have a general science course with 1 unit of biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics throughout the year. At junior year the sciences branch apart and it’s pretty common for the top students to triple up on physics, chemistry, and biology. Earth science is there for people who are interested in geology, and for those who say they don’t want to take a “hard-core” science".</p>
<p>well I go to public school, nine periods a day for forty minutes each.
science for us usually goes bio ninth, chem tenth, and an AP or physics for eleventh and twelfth.</p>
<p>My high school is 5 days a week, 7:25-2:55, four 100 minute classes a week. They have the AP program.</p>
<p>However, I opted to take the dual enrollment route, which means for 11th and 12th grade, I was a full-time student at a local state college. Classes were Monday-Thursday, 3 hours a week (either 3 hours on one day or 1.5 on two days–MW/TR–each). I went to school far less often and had far more free time, along with maintaining the most challenging schedule possible and earning a ton of high school and college classes. Not to mention, I took 5 history classes, 6 Writing/Literature classes, 2 Philosophy classes, 2 Ecology classes, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Government, and a ton of other classes I loved, all in two years.</p>