Organization shouldn’t be too hard. Get a spiral notebook for each subject, and don’t tear out pages for anything or anyone. Get a legal pad and write assignments to be handed in on it. Get a five-subject pouch and use it to hold handouts that you get in class, and to store assignments that you’re going to hand in and which are handed back.

Study on your own, and in a quiet place. If you can’t find one, let your school know this, and they’ll help. Go to every class: don’t miss a single one, ever. Give your best effort in every non-academic activity, including gym.

Do every problem in every homework assignment. Turn everything in on time. That’s your first priority. When they tell you to do something, do it. If you get stuck, work around the bad place and ask for help the next day.

Be completely honest in all your dealings with teachers and others. Once you get a reputation as a reliable kid, you’ll be trusted to do more interesting things, and you’ll always get the benefit of the doubt. Never miss an opportunity to demonstrate to the authorities that you’re a good kid.

If you get stuck doing some sort of group project, make sure you do more than your share of the work. You’ll learn more, and though others might take credit for something you’ve done, you and they will know the truth.

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The first few days will be confusing and a little difficult. Once a week or so goes by you’ll fall into a pattern and it will be same old same old. For organizing one thing that always really helped me was color coding things to know which one went to which class. For notes I always skimmed the chapter/reading (honestly I very rarely read the required reading) and that way during lecture I knew what to look for.

Good luck with your first day!

Should you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of not having a very open or willing teacher in this subject, you can always seek out another teacher who seems to be competent in the area of writing. A history, philosophy, psychology or theatre teacher might also be quite adept and willing to help you out. Regardless, there’s no reason to wait until college, if you’re interested now. You might want to join a literary club of some sort. Extracurricular activities can be quite fun, and you can learn a lot from them.

As to surviving the first days and becoming acclimated to the new school, for the most part you just have to take what comes at you, and go with the flow. Preparation would help of course, make sure you have the necessary materials for your classes. Keep a schedule or planner of some sort. Develop a smart method of keeping notes – try using different colour inks to separate important information, make lists of key phrases, dates, etc. Highlighters can also help make things stand out. Try index cards as quick flash cards to remember things by.

You could look around on the internet for quick tricks to studying and remembering various subjects, and testing well. There are many methods, and everyone learns differently, so that’s a very personal thing you’ll have to figure out for yourself.

Other than that…. breathe deep, relax, and be yourself. The subjects are going to be a bit harder because they deal with new information, but they’re not going to be impossible. Schools are set up to gradually advance your skills and knowledge, not to bombard you with information you can’t handle. Try to be confident that you will do well with the abilities that you have. Ask questions if you have them, keep up with your work, don’t procrastinate (too much, anyway,) and be yourself. Everything will be fine. High school can be the most enjoyable and interesting time of your life, if you open yourself up to what it can offer, and don’t stress out too much. Worrying doesn’t help at all, it just blocks you up. Try your best, and be satisfied with that.

edit. The previous answer is incredibly sound advice. Make note of it and remember it, it’s all quite true.