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yorkielover88:
I am trying my hand at original fiction. I have my main character as a 15 yearold girl. I need some details about a typical day or week in amarican high school. I was homeschooled so I don't know! Lol!
Anyone here from USA remember those days well enough to try and answer me some questions?
Carter-Orange:
Sorry, I'm English so can't offer any help.
RokofAges75:
What questions do you have? It's been a few years for me, but I can try to help. :)
yorkielover88:
Well, I mostly need to know what a highschoolers schedule looks like typically.
When does the day start?
What classes are there?
in what order do they fall?
Is each day of the week the same?
If not, what does each day look like?
Are their different lunch periods?
If yes, do you have the same one each day?
How long is lunch?
When does school let out?
Do you have homework each and every day?
How long an average does homework take you?
Are their any areas that are specially for seniors only like how you see on tv?
If so could an under class man get in trouble for being in that spot or area?
If yes, what would happen?
What happens in detention?
Is it a teacher who runs it?
Is it the same teacher each time?
RokofAges75:
I will tell you it varies a lot from school to school, but here's how I would answer these questions for my school.
When does the day start? - My high school went 8:15-3:15. Some schools start a little earlier, but anywhere around 8-3 is typical for a school day.
What classes are there? - The typical schedule would involve some kind of math, science, social studies/history, and English/literature. There are also foreign languages (most schools would have Spanish; some also have French or German or other languages), music and art classes, vocational classes like home ec, shop, keyboarding and computer classes, etc. We had to take so many credits of vocational and fine arts classes, but there were a lot of options.
in what order do they fall? - Everyone has a different class schedule, and it's different from year to year, so you can put them in whatever order you want.
Is each day of the week the same? - At my school, it was; we had 8 periods (I think 45 or 50 minutes each), so we had the same 8 classes every day. I know other schools that do it on a block schedule, more like college, where you have maybe only 4 classes every other day, so it switches between an A schedule and a B schedule, but the periods are longer. (I think that would have been better!)
Are their different lunch periods? - This will depend on the size of the school, but yeah, we had three different lunch periods. Ours were A, B, and C lunch. I think my school had about 900 kids, so about 300 per lunch - way too many to fit in the cafeteria, so they had lunch tables in the gym too.
If yes, do you have the same one each day? - Yes, same lunch every day.
How long is lunch? - Same as a class period, so like 45-50 minutes.
Do you have homework each and every day? - No, depends on the subject and teacher. For something like math, we did have homework pretty much every day to practice whatever skill we were working on, but in English, we would do more longterm projects, like reading a novel or writing a paper, so it was not so much nightly homework and more "Here is a timeline for your project, and this is when it's due."
How long an average does homework take you? - Maybe an hour a night? Not every night, though.
Are their any areas that are specially for seniors only like how you see on tv? - Not at my school.
What happens in detention? - I never got detention, but I think it was just like a study hall after school... you sit around in a room for about an hour and do your homework.
Is it a teacher who runs it? - I think so.
Is it the same teacher each time? - I think they rotated. (Not sure about the detention questions though; I was a good kid, and so were my friends; we didn't do anything to warrant detention LOL.)
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