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Sophomore class artwork, from East Texas State Normal College's 1920 Locust yearbook. In the United States, a sophomore (/ ˈ s ɑː f m ɔːr / or / ˈ s ɒ f ə m ɔːr /) [1] [2] is a person in the second year at an educational institution; usually at a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.
Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility.Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with the four years of academic classes typically required to earn a bachelor's degree at an American college or university.
The tenth grade is typically the second year of high school, called sophomore year. In the U.S. curriculum for social studies, tenth grade students are taught recent world history or American history. In some districts, Advanced Placement coursework, such as geography, European history, Global studies, or United States History are offered. [7]
Four to eight 40 to 90 minute class periods, broken up by around five minutes to get to the next class. Schools may hold classes daily for a shorter time (traditional scheduling) or alternate days for an extended session (block scheduling). A lunch break (some schools permit students to leave campus to eat, though most hold lunches on-site). [10]
"Freshman" and "sophomore" are sometimes used figuratively, almost exclusively in the United States, to refer to a first or second effort ("the singer's sophomore album"), or to a politician's first or second term in office ("freshman senator") or an athlete's first or second year on a professional sports team.
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A sophomore in American English is a student in the second year of study at high school or college. Sophomore or Sophomores may also refer to: "Sophomore" (song), a song by Ciara from her self-titled 2013 album; Fleetwings BT-12 Sophomore, a 1940s American trainer airplane; The Sophomore, a 1929 American comedy film directed by Leo McCarey
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