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Tenth Grade Schedule


This is going to be my school schedule. It's currently under construction, which is why it looks screwed up. In case it helps, here are the definitions for Torah, Talmud and Mishna.
Stated times are generally accurate to within a few minutes. Unstated times are not. Where there's a five-minute gap, we're supposed to be preparing for the next class (or for prayers).
Sunday
Time What I Should Be Doing Teacher Place
8:00-1 Morning Prayers N/A Beis Midrash2
1-9:15 Free Time3 N/A Within the school
9:15-4 4 4 4
4-11:003 Review5 N/A Beis Midrash
11:00-11:15 Free Time3 N/A Within the school
11:15-1:00 4 4 4
1:00-1:15 4
or Afternoon Prayers		 4
or N/A		 4
or Beis Midrash

Monday-Thursday
Time What I Should Be Doing Teacher Place
7:30-1 Morning Prayers N/A Beis Midrash
1-8:50 Free Time3 N/A Within the school
8:50-8 Lecture, then Jewish law Rabbi Shapiro Rabbi Shapiro/10th Grade Room
8-10:558 Review5,
then Talmud study		 N/A,
then Rabbi M. Stern		 Beis Midrash,
then Miscellaneous Upstairs Room
10:558-11:109 Free Time3 N/A
11:109-??:??10 Review5 N/A Beis Midràsh
??:??10-12:25 Laws of the Sabbath Rabbi Shapiro Rabbi Shapiro/10th Grade Room
12:25-1:00 Free Time3 N/A
1:00-1:40 Mishna Rabbi M. Stern11 Computer Room
1:45-2:00 Afternoon Prayers N/A Beis Midràsh
2:00-2:40 Monday: Gym
Tuesday and Thursday: Prophets12
Wednesday: Computers		 Monday: Mr. Slotkin
Tue.+Thu.: Rabbi Farber
Wednesday: Mr. Stroock		 Monday: Gym
Tue.+Thu.: R. Shapiro/10th Grade Room
Wednesday: Computer Room


As an observant reader might have realized, I go to a Jewish school. Another thing you may have noticed is that this school refuses to bow to those evil Christian holidays and makes us go to school on Sundays.
1 - Morning prayers generally take around fifty minutes on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at the Beis Midrash; on Mondays and Thursdays they take around an hour and five minutes. On holidays, fast days, or other days when additions are made to the prayers, it could take as long as maybe an hour and twenty-five minutes.
2 - A beis midrash is a place to study Torah. This one is also used as a synagogue.
3 - We're more or less allowed to do what we want during this time, except leaving school. Apparently New York State sent out a list of safety precautions schools should take, and one is not to let students out of the school grounds. My school decided they liked this one, so we aren't allowed out.
In the morning we generally have breakfast. In the early afternoon we generally have lunch. In the late afternoon (i.e. post-5:35 on Thursdays) we generally have dinner.
4 - I forgot what's supposed to go here. My schedule for the morning has been changing around a lot lately.
5 - We're supposed to be studying Torah on our own one way or another at this point.
7 - The afternoon prayers must be said after thirteen twenty-fourths of the daylight hours have passed. (Don't ask.) What with Daylight Savings Time and the changing seasons, sometimes 1:00 doesn't qualify. At these times of year we don't say the afternoon prayers in school on Sunday. (1:45 qualifies the entire year, at least in this latitude.)
8 - Some of the morning teachers seem not to appreciate or desire the existence of schedules. They generally begin and end whenever they feel like it. Rabbi Shapiro is among these, although he's pretty good about letting out on time for lunch.
9 - Actually, we tend to go in fifteen or twenty minutes after we're let out, which varies considerably. Rabbi Stern, being the principal (isn't it fun being taught by the principal?), is a very busy man and generally has class whenever he can find the time. This may or may not allow us to have our break at some time within an hour of the official one.
10 - As you may have gathered by now, my school schedule isn't exactly iron-bound. We stop reviewing when Rabbi Shapiro calls us in for his class, generally somewhere between 12:45 and 1:05.
11 - Rabbi M. Stern (no relation to Rabbi J. Stern) is the principal. I love being taught by the principal.
12 - I'm still not sure how they managed to sneak this in to secular subjects.













































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