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[wanttobeatree]

Americans on my flist (or knowledgeable non-Americans; who knows?), YOUR HELP IS NEEDED. 'Cause it's been so long since I watched Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and that was really my only High School learnings

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[rhombal]

In 10th grade (AKA Sophomore year of high school), I had--

Band (other people had chorus, or art, or computer class), Composition (you usually have some sort of written language arts class; we wrote essays and gave speeches), World History (we spent a semester each on India, Russia, China, and Africa), Psychology, Chemistry (though you could substitute Biology), Physical Education (PE; we ran laps, played flag football, and played badminton), and -- well, I took Advanced Algebra, but most people had Geometry at that time.

And I live in Wisconsin, which is a northern state, definitely. And a state that a lot of SPN episodes take place in, which makes me happy.

There isn't a nationwide curriculum, no, but each state has a proficiency test in various grades (I know for sure that there was one in 5th grade and one in high school), just to test that everyone was at the same level on certain subjects.

I'm a little fuzzy since that was a while ago, but I hope that helps. :D If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

ETA: college =/= high school, oops.

[wanttobeatree]

That was definitely helpful! :D Congrats, you are rewarded with love!

OTHER QUESTIONS: what was the time structure of your day? I mean, like, how many lessons did you have, how long did they last, when did you have lunch?

Also, what do you call dinner ladies? As in the people behind the food in the canteen, who dole it out to you and make sure you don't throw things around too much, and whatnot? Assuming you have dinner ladies/a dinner lady equivalent, anyway.

[rhombal]

I think we had eight class periods each day, and each of them lasted about 45-50 minutes with a 7-8 minute passing period, so it was basically: (7:30ish start time), Hour 1, Hour 2, Hour 3, Hour 4, Hour 5, Lunch (same length as a class period; there were three different lunch periods and they were placed into your schedule just like a class), Hour 7, Hour 8. And school got out at about 2:45ish for me.

--oh, and during my last year, I had a study hall. If people don't have an extra class like band or chorus, etc, they have a study hall, which is basically an excuse to goof off.

And they're called lunch ladies, actually!

[kayto1]

It's the lunch ladies in the cafeteria - and the surly janitors who had to clean our crap up....