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Today is the first day of the Spring quarter. From this day, my school will start using Block Schedule (90 minutes a period).
And now, I came home from school. Everything was horrible. The first period I had Chinese 2 which I was totally out of concentration after the first 45 mins. For the next period, the teacher even finished teaching for about 40 minutes sooner. And it was 11:35. However luckily for me that in between of the first half and the second half of the third period was lunch time so I was able to avoid falling asleep in class. And the forth period came. It was hard to keep mind my clear and I was so sleepy. The sunlight was also too weak as it was going to rain. That made a perfect condition for anybody to fall asleep.
I can't imagine doing anything every school day this quarter. Guess I may get use to it after a few times but this was just terrible. T_T
 
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Haha, we've had block scheduling since middle school.. Good luck getting adjusted to it. =/
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u can procrastinate all your hw now!
Hell u can do it the class period before. you have enough time 
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I hope the teacher will allow me to do other classes' works or I may fall asleep in class the first time in my life 
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Block Scheduling really sucks, an hour and a half for classes is so stupid you can only keep your mind on a subject for so long. Sleeping will be your new best friend.
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Can someone explain this in greater detail for us non-americans?
What's the regular type of scheduling in US schools?
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Traditional schedule usually has 45 minute-periods.
There are many types of block schedule but block schedule usually has 90 minute-periods.
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On March 04 2009 21:41 LaLuSh wrote:
Can someone explain this in greater detail for us non-americans?
What's the regular type of scheduling in US schools?
Say you have 6 classes (A,B,C,D,E,F) that are 45 minutes each.
Normal scheduling gives:
Monday-Friday:
A-45
B-45
C-45
D-45
E-45
F-45
Block Scheduling becomes:
1
A-90
B-90
C-90
2
D-90
E-90
F-90
With 1 and 2 alternating throughout the year. So first week may be 1,2,1,2,1 (mon-fri), then second week would be 2,1,2,1,2 (mon-fri), etc. At least this was how my school did it.
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usually i fall asleep only when the teacher is REALLY bad
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On March 04 2009 19:57 Guilford wrote:I hope the teacher will allow me to do other classes' works or I may fall asleep in class the first time in my life
Come on mate, it's like you've never been through school if you haven't felt asleep during class  .
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tbh, I have never ever felt asleep in class
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It will not be as bad as you think. Unless you make it bad then yes you can expect boring days. When I was going through block scheduling in high school I kinda had a routine of what I could work on after the teacher finished teaching early and left us with almost an hour of not doing nothing. I can second that block scheduling can be very boring if you make it boring. I had plenty of boring days during those hour an half classes. Eventually you will get adjusted to it and actually enjoy how you can accomplish work in such a shitty way of going to classes. At least this is how I looked at it.
Oh and expect alot of days where the teacher teaches twenty minutes and you have an hour or so to finish your work(which you will finish in 10 minutes unless ur a dumbass) and have nothing to do for an hour. Occupy that time with socializing or catching up with work.
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On March 04 2009 19:57 Guilford wrote:I hope the teacher will allow me to do other classes' works or I may fall asleep in class the first time in my life
My teachers didn't care much as long as I was doing something quiet(when I would socialize I would always end up having the half/whole class involved in some weird stupid discussion). Oh and OMG you have no idea how much sleep I would get. There would be days I would go to school looking forward to sleep.
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On March 04 2009 19:44 HeavOnEarth wrote:u can procrastinate all your hw now! Hell u can do it the class period before. you have enough time
+1 I also went through this and thank god for the block scheduling for giving me time to finish projects. There was times where I could procrastinate on a writing project(that had a due date of like 3 weeks or something) and wouldn't start it until the hour before the class started. Block scheduling isn't all to bad if you use it to your advantage  :p
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so basically, I just need to find somethings to do in the spare time.
Anyways, thank guys for replying.
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we have 75 minute periods
meeting halfway i guess
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On March 04 2009 23:15 Guilford wrote:tbh, I have never ever felt asleep in class
You are my hero.
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On March 05 2009 01:51 Cloud wrote:Show nested quote +On March 04 2009 23:15 Guilford wrote:tbh, I have never ever felt asleep in class You are my hero.
Those are all true until this Block Scheduling thing being initiated though
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when theres nothing to do in class, do homework.
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Wait till college when you have 2 hour 45 minutes classes once a week. Those are seriously killer...
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block periods sound like the double periods we have here in australia
we have 40 minute single periods, 80 minute double periods, each day we have 8 periods, and depending on time tabling, we might have 1, 2 or 3 double periods each day ( i have 6 subjects i study with 6 periods for each one, two doubles and two singles).
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Well it's highschool so who cares. All you do in highschool is talk to your friends in class anyways.
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Skip class. High school is a real breeze if you dont go. Not like you are missing out on anything anyways.
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block schedule makes everything so lax rofl
you have more time to do homework because its due in a couple days, not the next
you dont have to see all your shitty teachers every day
only two classes until lunch? gg
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damn dude, you could take chinese? id love to take that, haha. i fucking hate block schedule though BUTTTTT when you have college, you get used to it. ;D
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My school started block scheduling this past Fall and although I was originally against it, it actually makes the work load a lot easier. You only have to do homework for half your classes every night! I know there are various ways of doing block scheduling but at our school Monday was a regular day with all classas (1-7) so Sunday night was a pain because not only had we procrastinated, we had all 7 classes of homework to do instead of just 3 or 4.
It seems weird but now the 7 period days seem longer because we have so many classes. The 4 longer period days seem to pass by faster since there are fewer transitions.
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Had block scheduling in primary school, and it really sucked. You were half asleep midway through the day and 90 minutes with about a subject you loathe is a long time. I don't miss those last-day danish lessons, yawn.
In highschool I have upwards of 6 56 minute lessons a day, with great variations from day to day, week to week. Ever since lectio - an online scheduling software - was implemented, teachers love to shift blocks around to confuse us even more. I still greatly prefer this to 3-4x90 minutes lessons, though, you don't get nearly as tired with these short lessons.
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As someone who has taught both, I can say that most of you who are providing polarizing viewpoints haven't tried both.
When I was a student we did nine 40 minute periods and I heard about some places trying block scheduling. I thought that was a terrible idea (and very confidently I might add). It was only when I saw it in action later on that I realized there isn't a big advantage of one over the other.
Block scheduling requires the teacher to do a good job planning though. The block has to be broken up or it's hellish for all involved. On the other hand, a teacher of ~40 minute classes needs to be on top of the students every second from the moment the bell rings or else you lose 20% of the years allotted time before you realize it.
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At my high school for my freshman and sophomore years, we had a block schedule with only 4 classes per semester. We went to the same four classes every day. Then we get 4 new classes after a semester. Is this really that unusual?
Last year they switched to standard 7 50 minute classes for the whole year. I liked block schedule better and it wasn't even close.
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@kidd: 6 more months and I will be in college so I may experience those monster period soon
@Raithed: My Chinese is pretty bad. I can barely remember the words.
@huameng: I think that is normal. It is just one type of Block Scheduling.
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