My schools usually had 7 50 minute periods, with either 4th or 5th period being a lunch break, depending on your schedule, and 5 minutes between classes. I think the 2nd school had 2 lunch periods, and I know the third did. Both were smaller rural schools. Sex-ed was part of health, not biology, and health was a 1 semester course, as was choir and drivers ed. Journalism was both a class and extra-ciricular. The class was learning how to write for a paper with some articles. I remeber staying after school to proof-read (I was a copy editor) and help put the paper together.

"You need me. You wouldn't be much of a hero without a villain. And you do love being the hero, don't you. The cheering children, the swooning women, you love it so much, it's made you my most reliable accomplice." -- Lex Luthor to Superman, Question Authority, Justice League Unlimited