Need some general info on the high school system (1 Viewer)

[thewriter]

Hi everyone!

I am currently working on a coming of age novel set in America. The problem,I didn't attend high school in this country. I'm located in Miami.

I need some help with the following:

1.How far away are final exams from graduation?

2.What happens to a student if they're suspended?(if you can explain the process)

3.What are some of the books that are mandatory to read in high school?

4. How many days before graduation,if a student is allowed to take a make test would he/she have?

5. What is the timeline between graduation and prom night?

6. is creative writing classes offered?

7. What are the times(and month)graduation and proms are usually held?

8. Can they be held on a weekend?

9. Can you still graduate if you failed your finals.

Thank you.

 

[pLuvia]

1.How far away are final exams from graduation?

Since I'm in year 12, about 8 months away

2.What happens to a student if they're suspended?(if you can explain the process)

Depending on what they did, they are not allowed to come to school for a certain number of days. Or they have to come to school but sit in the principal's office

3.What are some of the books that are mandatory to read in high school?

It varies from school to school eg Pride and Prejudice, Brave New World, Shakespeare's works

5. What is the timeline between graduation and prom night?

It varies from school to school

6. is creative writing classes offered?

Yes

7. What are the times(and month)graduation and proms are usually held?

Formals are usually after the HSC (final exams) have finished

8. Can they be held on a weekend?

Yes

9. Can you still graduate if you failed your finals.

yes

 

[kami]

Hi everyone!

I am currently working on a coming of age novel set in America. The problem,I didn't attend high school in this country. I'm located in Miami.

I need some help with the following:

1.How far away are final exams from graduation?

2.What happens to a student if they're suspended?(if you can explain the process)

3.What are some of the books that are mandatory to read in high school?

4. How many days before graduation,if a student is allowed to take a make test would he/she have?

5. What is the timeline between graduation and prom night?

6. is creative writing classes offered?

7. What are the times(and month)graduation and proms are usually held?

8. Can they be held on a weekend?

9. Can you still graduate if you failed your finals.

Thank you.

1. Depends on what you term as graduation - some schools hold graduation events perhaps a week before the state wide exams. If you mean official government graduation, well we recieve our certificate in the mail approximately 2 months after the last exam has finished.

2. If a student is suspended, then the principal or school head will bar the student from attendance to class or school functions for a set period of time as a reaction to something bad that the student has done.

3. There aren't really any mandatory readings that are part of the rules(ie read this or you dont graduate), we do have textbooks which are tailored to the courses however and we also have texts in the English, Drama and Language Other Than English courses that we analyse. Some of the authors of the English texts are Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, Mark Twain, Coleridge, Jane Austen and so on.

4. For the state wide exams(which we all do), there are no make up exams but if you do miss the test and you have a valid reason they may allow you to use the results from your class tests as a replacement.

5. Varies from school to school - some don't even have proms(which are usually called formals here).

6. Creative writing is done through all levels of the English course, there is a mandatory creative writing component for all students where we must make a short story on journeys, and for those taking the Extension 1 English elective approximately 50% of the final exam involves creative writing, and the Extension 2 English has no exam but is rather a major piece of writing that you submit and may come in the form of creative writing or critical analysis.

7. Varies from school to school.

8. Yuppers.

9. There is no such thing as failing the final exam - you can recieve an extremely poor mark but you can't fail it. So as long as you do the neccesary exams you ccan graduate.

 

[luscious-llama]

Hmm this is an Australian website....but i'll try answering these questions

1.How far away are final exams from graduation?
8 months here.

2.What happens to a student if they're suspended?(if you can explain the process)
There can be inschool suspension: staying at school separated from the rest of the social organisation doing supervised work
Out of School suspension: for a few days, or a few weeks, a student must stay at home

3.What are some of the books that are mandatory to read in high school?
To Kill a Mockingbird. Heart of Darkness. Any of Shakespeares plays.

4. How many days before graduation,if a student is allowed to take a make test would he/she have?
Well here in Australia we graduate before the exams.

5. What is the timeline between graduation and prom night?
Graduation > Exams > Prom
In america its about a week or or even a few days i'm guessing

6. is creative writing classes offered?
Yes. Here in NSW Australia its called English Extension 2
In america there'd be some other fancy term.

7. What are the times(and month)graduation and proms are usually held?
No idea. End of the Schooling year, in American isnt the end of the school year just before their summer? June? May?

8. Can they be held on a weekend?
Yes. Definately not on a sunday though.

9. Can you still graduate if you failed your finals.
You cannot fail, you can only ever get a piss poor mark!


This wont help dude, this is the Australian system, you're better of observing various American movies or something...the girl next door has a bit about graduation and formals and things

Cheers

 

[insert-username]

This wont help dude, this is the Australian system, you're better of observing various American movies or something...the girl next door has a bit about graduation and formals and things

Cheers

I think he wants info on the Australian system, since he went to school in Miami and has moved here. You three have covered pretty much everything.


I_F

 

[kami]

1.How far away are final exams from graduation?
8 months here.

I don't get why you and pLuvia say 8 months... Its not 8 months between the time you sit your HSC and the time you graduate from your school.

 

[Riviet]

The time between the final exams and the graduation is I guess the day you get your UAI and results? That would be about 6 weeks.

 

[pLuvia]

I don't get why you and pLuvia say 8 months... Its not 8 months between the time you sit your HSC and the time you graduate from your school.

Opps misread the question

 

[luscious-llama]

I don't get why you and pLuvia say 8 months... Its not 8 months between the time you sit your HSC and the time you graduate from your school.

OH CRAP

misread

"deeeeeer"