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wanttobeatree

I know you're out there; I can hear you breathing

Dec 09, 2007 17:16

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 ( Read more... )

rl: hmv, christmas, highschool!fic deserves its own tag, not american, tv: supernatural

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rhombal December 9 2007, 18:55:46 UTC

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

wanttobeatree December 9 2007, 19:14:17 UTC

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 December 9 2007, 19:24:21 UTC

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 December 9 2007, 20:22:32 UTC

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

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wanttobeatree December 9 2007, 19:27:25 UTC

Oh my god the freshman/sophomore/junior/senior thing is SO BLOODY CONFUSING. It's only recently that I figured out junior comes after sophomore (which wtf it makes no sense).

Anyway, this has definitely helped! Although I'm still a little confused, but that's just me and my bewilderment at American schools (only one year of fine art? D: you poor souls). What I meant by what kind of things you'd learn was pretty much what lessons you'd take, so no need for brain-wracking specifics. Although- not so much for fic, and more for general curiosity- what are elective courses? The phrase keeps cropping up, and I have noooo idea.

Also, I'm kind of intrigued by the fact that you had three English classes. What did you do in them all?

Electives kayto1 December 9 2007, 20:20:58 UTC

Hi - I was in high school on a military school overseas - but it still followed the typical American experience for a small school.

Electives are basically anything beyond your basic math, science, english - so they would generally be a language (typically Spanish or French - it got fancier if your school/home town was bigger), home economics (cooking, sewing, etc), shop (wood tools), automotive, year book, photography, art, music (band, chorus), PE (physical education - in a small school you couldn't pick what type of physical education - it was gym class basically and ya did what coach told you!). Typically you had to take a science, a math, an english, a history/social studies, and then got two or three electives. I THINK I remember classes rotating on the MWF and TTH schedule, with MWF having more classes, but shorter periods. But I could be getting confused with college....

Hope this helps! Cause I am really looking forward to your high school fic.

R,
Kayto