It is a little more rushed between classes, because High Schools are generally bigger than Middle Schools, but it's all possible. My whole town is small, so the High School only has two floors, and the second floor is only one hallway. :3 So it's actually pretty lax for me (because small towns rule).
Maybe, but my Middle School had the same schedule as my high school. Except in Middle School I had a class between 3rd and 4th hour on every day but C days called "Advisement" where we supposed to work on homework or do whatever, but usually I just doodled. It was basically a Homeroom.
Eh... Kinda'. I have no homeroom, so that's different. I have eight classes, taking half on A days and half on B days. The week goes ABABC, with C days having all eight classes. Some people have a ninth class in "Zero Hour" which is in the first forty minutes before school starts, but those are all reallyreally hard science classes.
So I don't know how similar that is to what you have going, because my eight classes are just... Eight classes. No particular distinction or blocks set aside. I might maybe be still confused just a leetle beet.
NOW WHAT IS THIS "CONNECTING CLASS" YOU SPOKE OF?!
There's a movie that stemmed from a show that has five-minute episodes?