I don't know about you but when I went to middle and high school my class schedule was arranged in the traditional format of attending seven periods of class a day. These classes were all approximately 50 minutes each and they consisted of all different subjects. The majority of them were core subjects and then two or three, depending on which grade I was in, were electives. The electives I chose in middle school were art and leadership. As a student, the higher the grade you were in was the determining factor upon how much freedom you had in choosing your electives. So for example, in 6th grade everyone had to take computer and P.E. and those were our electives but in seventh grade we could choose whether or not we wanted to take computer or another elective but we still were required to take P.E. and a form of art. Then in eighth grade we could choose two electives but still had to take P.E. I think you get the idea. ...