For your first photography assignment, choose an object to study (if you shoot a roll of 36, you may choose 2 objects, but no more than 2). You are going to shoot the whole roll of film on this one object. Take some time with this -- be sure to check the object out from all angles. Try shots from above, from below, etc. Think about what you are trying to say about this object. Are you trying to "faithfully" represent it, being very realistic so that anyone who looked at your photograph would say "oh yeah, that's an x"? Or are you perhaps trying to be mysterious, taking shots so that nobody could tell what it was unless you told them? Try taking shots both ways, and come up with yet more of your own creative ways of looking at your chosen object.