Unlike in your middle school years, your class notes will include lectures, videos, audio files, and other sources of the spoken word... and your ability to process that information will require different parts of your brain. Your brain, to overuse an analogy, is a muscle and your teachers will have specific strategies to help you build it... but build it you must, to learn the information that only comes this way.

It's like the Nike ad: Just Do It. If not, there are consequences. Sometimes you'll be allowed to finish it for Homework, other times, no. Sometimes it's graded, other times it's part of an in-class activity or necessary for a project or assignment. Ask for help, according to your teacher's protocol, but do it. Teachers don't give work if it's not necessary... if nothing else, your grades will suffer.

This is a place to discuss the 6 Ps:

Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance

Depending on the project, your teacher may have provided you with specific deadlines, or you will be responsible for them on your own. Take into account other classes and partners, plan the stages of the project, and pull out your agenda book, a sheet of paper, a smartphone, or however you write down project plans. If you don't have a method, get one. Teachers will help you, just ask.

HERE is a project tracker that you might find very useful for figuring out a long-term project and making it manageable.