Science, Day 1: look for pictures in the book you think are interesting
Day 2: discuss the pictures and diagrams in Chapter 1, Part 1
Day 3: discuss the definitions of the highlighted vocabulary words in Chapter 1...
Enthusiasm effectively cured. Can't wait for Day 4.
DS's 8th grade math teacher spent the whole first week of school on administrivia: reading the rules, discussing the rules, penalties for breaking the rules, filling out forms that said you understood the rules, and taking forms home so that parents could read rules and sign off on same. Then they talked about "math myths" like "there's no such thing as a mathy mind." Believe it or not, things actually went downhill from there. The math instruction that year was risible.
That sounds about like the first week with Connections in most high school courses.
Here, this is our class. It is about {subject}.
This is an introduction to the various types of assignments in our class.
This is how various types of assignments will be graded.
This is a list of the materials that you should have available for you.
You should organize your schedule so that you get these large projects completed-- here is an organizer to help you with that.
Finally-- a QUIZ! About our CLASS! (Sometimes this is related to class structure, sometimes it covers formatting assignments, etc.)
Yup. First four days-- even in AP.
