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DECFDACB0143 | It's the last day of school and students are excited for their summer break to finally start. They're daydreaming about making memorable memories with their friends and going on relaxing vacations. However, minutes before the last bell, they're handed packets of work and projects that need to be completed for the next ... | 6 | 1,008 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
B8EAF80A1409 | Many students dislike completing summer projects during their vacation time. After working hard in school, they look forward to relaxing and giving their brain a rest. It is vital that we do not mentally burnout, however, it is also important that we keep our brain somewhat active during summer break. This is why stude... | 6 | 855 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
3869028BB079 | Through the school year students are required complete many learning based projects that are designed and instructed by teachers, but as the school year ends many teachers fear that students may lose the knowledge gained over the year during summer break. To prevent this from happening many schools require summer proje... | 6 | 728 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
960E34CEA228 | It is not uncommon for students to choose to enjoy their summer free of learning and homework. Be that as it may, it is also not uncommon for students to go into the beginning of each school year confused and somewhat out of touch from all the knowledge they absorbed the prior year. To prevent this shedding of informat... | 6 | 741 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
E7FDD8906C90 | Every single student has faced the challenge of summer projects at least once throughout their academic career. After a long year of work, their vacation plagued by an assignment that will get pushed of till the last week, hour, or even day. It is a difficult task to create a summer project that is engaging while simul... | 6 | 778 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
A121A6B379B2 | Summer assignments are dreaded by students from any school almost anywhere. These long-paged, seemingly endless, and difficult assignments are planned and made by teachers and are given to students to complete and as a form of review for the students for the upcoming course. This review, for the students, is of utmost ... | 6 | 772 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
1E404144174D | Summer, a time for sleeping in, enjoying the sunshine, and living the best life possible, is also a time where students tend to forget all of their learned information from school. Although summer vacation is a much needed break, it is also a time where information from previous year can be deleted. Some schools, becau... | 6 | 800 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Two or more races/Other | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
FA2BC6C3A09B | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Many of these summer projects are required for honors classes, such as AP or classes that are in preparation for them. Some think that summer assignments should be designed by teachers. Others think that stude... | 6 | 634 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
B3388EF1E80C | Summer is a great way to take a break from school, but also to apply knowledge to the real world. In some areas, students are required to complete summer projects to ensure they continue to learn over their break. These projects are usually designed by the teachers, who want their students to be as prepared as possible... | 6 | 965 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
C2E37AE20F8E | Students need a break from school. Continuing through twelve years of standardized education without the occasional recess would be detrimental to the mental health of all involved parties (including the teachers). That being said, breaks from school should not be periods where students are completely free of the learn... | 6 | 679 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
3C536EA2E590 | Summer projects are a painful, but necessary experience that many students have to face as they continue their academic careers in middle and high school. Teachers understand that without these projects, students could lose much of their academic progress that they have made throughout the year, and so these projects b... | 6 | 919 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
A3B1DE87F2AB | In the midst of the great education reforms being implemented throghout the American schools, students are now more than ever profitting of the usage of technology into the evoloving schooling sytem. However, one problem still remains, as summer starts, students tend to forget the material that they have learned last y... | 6 | 768 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
522BE2470C36 | Growing up, my mother always made me and my sister complete education booklets during the summer to make sure we didn't loose all of the knowledge we gained from the prior school year. Like my mother, some schools require students to do summer projects to ensure that students continue to learn and remember what they ha... | 6 | 710 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
1202C1C507A0 | There is no question about the importance of education. It is an international priority; the prosperity of a nation is often measured by how educated its people are. The debate now lies within how to go about delivering education to students. It is understood that summer months are a perfect time that students should s... | 6 | 670 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Black/African American | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
2FC7CD39C375 | A nice, long, and warm summer break is what many students consider the best boon of public schools. While public schools respect the break that is given to the students, they intend to make certain that every student maintains an adequate level of mental preparedness while on their break. To achieve this goal a majorit... | 6 | 674 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Two or more races/Other | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
59A14F276C3E | Summer projects have long been a popular way to ensure that students continue learning during their break. Ranging across subjects, summer assignments encompass everything from math packets to reading lists to art projects. These assignments can be either teacher- or student-designed -- two different styles of learning... | 6 | 879 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
9610F24FDFA7 | Imagine worrying for 9+ months about completing assignments just to worry some more during the only lengthy break students get. There is too much that students have to worry about during the school year, they have to worry about quizzes, exams, homework, projects, SATs, etc.. I think that is more than enough for studen... | 6 | 1,024 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
23040674ECD6 | Some schools require summer projects make sure that students are continue learning in their summer break. The concept of summer projects should engage the students to think critically even without a classroom setting. This would benefit the students as they will remember how to study and work ethically even with the lo... | 6 | 761 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
3B68F65B6B59 | Student-Designed Summer Project
Every student looks forward to summer, it's the time when you get to have fun and not be stressed out about homework. However, some teachers give summer projects that need to be completed. Students dread doing these because they feel like it's taking time away from what is supposed to b... | 6 | 736 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
077A62D46D30 | Just before the bell rings to dismiss students for year, teachers are struggling to keep the attention of students when explaining their summer assignments for the break. The students know that the summer assignments are important, but their attention is on the bell that declares summer vacation. Summer assignments are... | 6 | 900 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
831AFFC5CC7B | Preparedness is a quality attributed to future success. This is why schools across the country have students complete summer assignments, as they wish to prepare those students for the rigors of high-level courses. Yet, despite the good intentions, many students often complain of these summer assignments being tedious ... | 6 | 881 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
4A5760917477 | The distinct responsibility of having students learn rests on the very shoulders of teachers throughout nine out of the twelve months that are in a year, so the students should direly be permitted to design how they learn over the three month break that they get. This three month break, summer, to most students, is a t... | 6 | 866 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
59759D9F5AFB | Classes, such as Art, require students to complete projects over the summer. In the example of
AP
Art, their works are part of their end-of-year graded portfolio while also working to ensure that students are still prepared and ready to complete magnificent pieces over the school year. The teacher of the class should... | 6 | 898 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Two or more races/Other | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
55F5CBF45A7F | Have you ever been given a really boring project that had a ton of requirements and restrictions on it? How were you able to do your best when most of your creative freedom was taken away? The truth is, is that those grueling projects limit you. Limitation on projects gets in the way of obtaining valuable knowledge and... | 6 | 824 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
F6C4CC27973F | It has been estimated that during summer break, roughly 75 percent of students fail to retain critical information for their next year's classes. This is quite detrimental to a student's overall education, considering time will have to be spent relearning old information instead of new material. Because of this, some s... | 6 | 698 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
C1F190E125B7 | While some students despise the thought of a summer assignment, others can see it as an opportunity to learn or experience new things. However, there is always one feeling towards assignments such as those, that feeling being "
I really don't want to waste my summer on school work.
" Moreover, since its a summer assi... | 6 | 966 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
D4E417EF62AD | As I heard my score on the first quiz I took in my AP US History class, I remember the happiness I felt and how grateful I was to have had such a beneficial and informative reading project over the summer. Without my teacher's aid to learn the information, I would have not understood the material as clearly as I did an... | 6 | 1,009 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
ED969486C983 | Summer assignments are world renowned for their boring nature, however their purpose is to maintain knowledge over long-term breaks.
While students slave away over AP or DE assignments over summer, they feel as if they are wasting time on a topic that will not be discussed in class or will not be relevant to the class... | 6 | 606 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
84080A15343F | Continuous engagement is an indispensable component of student learning. Though, during the summer break, students are typically left to their own devices and whether or not they review information from the previous year or explore topics on their own is an entirely personal decision. Some schools, however, require a s... | 6 | 827 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Two or more races/Other | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
B709B23BE29B | Summer. The air is warmer, the sun is brighter, and the grass is greener. When most people think of summer, they think of finally getting a break from school; and although that may seem accurate, it is not the case. Most high schools require teachers to give their students summer projects to assure they continue learni... | 6 | 712 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
9BEB73ACDAA5 | During the summer, some schools assign students take-home projects to make sure they retain the information that they learn at school. However, the mold that teachers use for the students usually tends to be incredibly dry, rendering the point of summer break projects ineffective. Instead, students should be able to de... | 6 | 819 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
8940AE811882 | Summer is a time to relax and enjoy a break from the various amounts of school work and learning done throughout the school year. Students often forget the curriculum by not being in school, so schools brought the idea of summer projects. Summer projects are a great way to bring in learning outside of school and still ... | 6 | 900 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
8C7930D181C3 | During a students summer break many go on vacation, some work, others may use their summer break to relax and have fun. During this almost three month period, do students retain information that will be needed in there upcoming school year? Most likely not, because of this some schools make it a requirement that studen... | 6 | 807 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
57DA3FB70989 | What if students could design their own summer projects? As the summer gets closer and closer, some schools assign summer projects to its students. These projects are mean't to keep students' minds refreshed on materials they have learned in school. Projects designed by students and teachers are different and can show ... | 6 | 836 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
8088E068D44D | Summer Projects
Schools around the world have a long break after the school year ends, around where I live we call these summer breaks, 3 months of kids running around, going to the pool, the beach, and vacation; However, not all of these breaks are the same. Students often get summer assignments or projects. Should t... | 6 | 958 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
EEA8227BD12A | For many years, summer projects have been given to students as a way to ensure that these students continue with learning even through such a long and extended break. Summer projects are a necessity to students as they give an outlook on what will be expected throughout the school year and what skill sets are crucial i... | 6 | 981 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
C09A881E26D8 | Summer is a time for students to relax and unwind from the hectic school year. For some students, schoolwork continues to follow them while on vacation. The projects assigned over the summer for students are meant to keep students stimulated with learning while on a break. Some designs of these assignments are less eff... | 6 | 754 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
7E54AA9ADF2B | Today, the effect of summer break on students is debated as frequently as politics. Many are convinced that this long break causes students to forget material that they have just learned. Schools have tried to combat this issue in various ways; one way is to require summer projects. This would assure that students cont... | 6 | 1,006 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
9F9FBC5BF6B3 | A student presents their self-designed science project: it is a box of dry ice and a research paper on the properties of the peculiar substance. The project has a valid topic, but it is almost irrelevant to the curriculum of the class. A month later, the student realizes that the summer project should have been some so... | 6 | 860 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Two or more races/Other | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
9C95AF195D21 | Summer projects are an activity that every student dreads. These projects are a common practice by schools to prepare students for the upcoming school year. Many schools debate whether summer-projects should be teacher-designed or student-designed. Summer projects need to be student-designed because it helps students r... | 6 | 892 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
A6E455DE5D74 | The sun is blazing, what a great day to go to the pool. That isn't an option because instead high school students need to make sure they meet check points for their summer break project. Assignments that are given to over summer break should be student designed. If projects are student designed they can work it around ... | 6 | 920 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
52AAD6100DA5 | Nothing admits more absolute fear, than when you come in on the first day of school and the teachers asks for that important English project, which was due over the summer, that no one knew existed. You're not the only one. Many schools nowadays offer summer projects, which allow students to progressively learn the mat... | 6 | 975 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
C06F12B6FC3F | Summer can be an issue when it comes to students' abilities of retaining knowledge from the prior school year. Summer assignments are designed to help students sharpen their learning skills over the summer in order to help them thrive in the coming academic school year. One question to consider is whether these summer ... | 6 | 697 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
ACD0B8D43EF7 | Eyeing the clock with big grins on their faces, students sit on the edge of their seat, ready to ditch the books for summer break's embrace. That is until the teacher breaks the excited energy for everyone in a monotone voice, stating that a summer project will be assigned. Summer projects have always been a point of a... | 6 | 847 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
3513A3F9728F | Many schools and classes required students to complete summer projects. These projects are generally meant to introduce a subject or refresh the students memory in a subject area. Since these projects are teacher-designed, many of them fail to achieve the purpose which they are meant for and instead just become another... | 6 | 999 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
FD4A4E94DEDB | Time and time again, it has been proven that students are more likely to demonstrate an engaged focus when studying topics they have a genuine interest in. For example, elective classes often garner the most frequent acts of student initiative in a variety of academic fields. This is because students have been given th... | 6 | 775 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
43A98A5165A6 | Over the summer, schools require students to do a few projects to make sure they continue learning. Over a three month long break, it is easy to forget material and or not feel motivated to learn new material. Assigning projects will help encourage and enforce students to continue learning. The debate is, should teache... | 6 | 1,045 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Identified as having disability |
9C0904DB557E | School ends, summer break starts, and students wants to relax. However some schools require that students to use their break as a time to continue their journey of education, so they provide projects over the summer. These projects are usually designed by teachers, but some argue that students should be designing the p... | 6 | 837 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
825C7DDC0008 | Summer vacation is what every student looks forward to throughout the school year. Many students plan to go on trips with their family or friends for months at a time, but are limited to the three month vacation. The last thing a student wants to worry about over break is getting school-work done.
But in order to make... | 6 | 926 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Black/African American | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
F7561C027920 | In high school, summer projects (especially for advanced placement classes) are assignments that students must complete. There is no way to get out from completing those assignments. Teachers create most of these summer projects because they know exactly what the students should learn before they reach the first class ... | 6 | 932 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
5470F4CF4DED | Teacher Designed Summer Projects
Summer finally comes to an end and all students have completed their student designed summer project. Students are one month into school and realize the summer projects they created has not helped them prepare for school. Students are put into a horrible scenario, where they are mental... | 6 | 954 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
7BA171F909F5 | When summer time comes around, students get over 70 plus days of no school. Throughout those days, having school require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break is a good idea. Having fun and taking a break is good also, but I know students can find time to work a little... | 6 | 800 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Black/African American | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
A41AAD3F632D | Summer break for teachers and students is a great resting period to rejuvenate for the next, upcoming school year. Students are not overwhelmed by the constant workload, while teachers get a well-deserved break from planning. Concerned individuals, such as parents and teachers, believe that during this two-month-break,... | 6 | 995 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Economically disadvantaged | Identified as having disability |
8D73796D52E9 | Should students be allowed to design their own summer projects? Summer projects make sure students continue learning during their break. Although most students oppose the idea of being assigned a summer project, they would rather design it themselves instead of being assigned one already designed by the teacher; theref... | 6 | 983 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
1EFAC87220DC | Summer is a time of relaxation, fun, and time to spend with family and friends. Summer can also be a time for a great off season for sports and a time to get better at your crafts. Many parents and teachers believe that the summer should be a time to really work on your mistakes or bad habits you've made over the schoo... | 6 | 593 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
8103AD07727E | Over summer there is a multitude of things students want to do. None of these things are school related. Yet at the end of each school year teachers give out a summer project to these students, expecting it to be done by the start of next school year. Some times the project is to read a book other times it is to watch ... | 6 | 793 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
698BD19AABD9 | Summer projects have been around for decades and have the stigma of being boring or just too much work for one student to handle due to not understanding the information because the project is about a class they have yet to take as schools require students to learn over break. These thoughts provoke the idea of student... | 6 | 1,081 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
411B31AD51C6 | Students and teachers tend to have quite a bit of differences. Students feel as If teachers just don't understand them, and I'm sure it's likewise for teachers as well. One of our biggest misunderstandings is summer reading projects. Summer for students is a time of bright sunny days, water parks, and going out for ice... | 6 | 724 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Black/African American | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
898F6EB240EA | Summer break has finally arrived and students can not wait to relax and have fun. But some schools assign projects for students even while they have summer break. They do this so the students can continue to learn even when they are on break. Those assignments and projects need to have the accurate amount of designing ... | 6 | 757 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Black/African American | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
90212225F733 | Research indicates that students forget almost one-third of what they learned during the school year over summer. Without consistent reinforcement of learned material over the summer, students lose essential knowledge about concepts that are going to be built upon in the next school year. In response to that, schools h... | 6 | 920 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
4A926F657511 | A glass box. A glass box is what many teachers and schools put one in. While a student is in school there is never really much room for choosing ones path in their work. For all class work there is directions, for all project there is directions , and for all exams there is directions. Students never really get to desi... | 6 | 1,001 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
673D96D6688E | After a long and grueling school year, all students have on their mind is relaxing and enjoying themselves during the summer months. However, as the grade levels increase, the likelihood of summers being interrupted by a summer assignments or projects becomes very high. The purpose of this assignment is teachers prepar... | 6 | 817 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
AB5069821C4E | Summer projects are a burden that take away students time during the summer to relax and hang out with their friends and families. A lot of schools struggle with what to assign as summer reading or projects because they want the students to learn but don't like when students turn in sloppy work that they completed the ... | 6 | 991 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
E16FF3DF1166 | Once the school year ends, students have a large break to look forward to: summer. These hard-worked students have time to unwind, relieve stress, and spend time with their loved ones. However, it is also imperative that students do some sort of school-related work in order to prevent the "summer slide," a loss of know... | 6 | 959 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
66CBBA95F7C0 | When Alexander the Great led the great conquest of the Old World he never ceased his search for knowledge and the pleasure of learning. Taught by Aristotle, a great philosopher, Alexander expanded his intellectual frontiers of philosophy and culture with every new victory. He recognized that even during the periods of ... | 6 | 861 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
A801F239BB74 | Schools assign summer projects or assignments to ensure that the student continues to learn and develop the necessary skills to not just grow, but thrive in the classes they're taking the next school year. I believe that it is the teacher's responsibility to create and structure the assignments to cover all of the basi... | 6 | 791 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
99EBD3D71311 | Summer projects are often seen by the student populous as a scourge upon their lives, more work to procrastinate on. To teachers, however, they are a tool which students can use in order to stay on track with their education and keep up-to-date information with. As painful as they seem, these projects are created with ... | 6 | 726 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
BCF931098966 | Students are in school for almost ten months of year. They are constantly doing work that has been assigned by teachers, even if they do not enjoy doing it. Students have no desire to do these assignments because the assignments were designed by teachers and are not of interest to the students. They do not have any mot... | 6 | 986 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
0DBB894BB176 | Many Americans are often lazy, so if they are told to do something difficult and get nothing in return then they would put very little effort into the assignment . This problem occurs most often with teenagers because like most young people they would rather be having fun then working. Adults look more at the long term... | 6 | 620 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
9AF297830D8A | The majority of students use their summer vacation as a time to take a break from constant learning and unwind by spending time with friends and family. Learning for the majority of the year can be mentally exhausting and induce stress upon students. Most of what students learn is directed by the teacher and students d... | 6 | 817 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
5C094CEAB69B | Many schools assign summer projects as a way to ensure that students continue learning throughout summer break. It would be more beneficial if these summer projects were student-designed as opposed to teacher-designed because students would be allowed more creative freedoms with their projects, individualized learning,... | 6 | 903 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
D7EB67A94A1E | Let's face it, summer assignments are the biggest waste of time possible. Even more of a waste than the SOL. Who wants their summer having to be cut into, all because of a bunch of assignments at a teacher's request? That just isn't right, nor how it should be. While summer assignments are a pain, wouldn't they be less... | 6 | 964 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Black/African American | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
6BFE834C4FD5 | The dreaded summer work, an activity each child fears as they come off a long and stressful school year. However, as children become more independent, they begin to gain the ability to choose and complete their own projects from the creativity of their own mind. The question still remains, are school projects better le... | 6 | 814 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
F0186C77BE6D | After almost 10 months of school routines and class schedules, there looms a giant window of time between each school year where the leisure of vacations, adventures, and relaxation takes place. However, within that same time period, there is often an educational cost. A pressing concern about summer is of the fact tha... | 6 | 930 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Black/African American | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
FCA264AE51EF | Summer projects are often used as a way to ensure continued enrichment of American students during break because they have a longer time off. There is the debate however, should the projects be designed by students or by teachers? Students should design the projects because it allows for creativity, is a chance for per... | 6 | 868 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
937519C972A0 | Some schools throughout the world believe in learning year-round. They think that learning is vital, not only in the 9-10 months there is school, but in the summer as well. To overcome the blockade of learning that is the 2-3 months that students are not in school, schools require students to complete summer projects t... | 6 | 669 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
C06958610C8D | Is learning best guided by students or teachers? Though it is common for teachers to create and assign almost all work for students, the question gives debate to whether assignments over the summer should be designed by teachers or students. Summer projects are becoming required at some schools as a way to assure stude... | 6 | 903 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
3296EAE222D9 | The world we live in is a crazy, stressful place! We should always take a step back and think about the times when we were in kindergarten and life was enjoyable because we used to tell our teachers what kind of projects and activities we would like to do in our breaks. When I was in kindergarten, me and my friends use... | 6 | 982 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
B321001BE0F5 | Summer projects are commonly used to keep students minds engaged and active during the long summer break away from school.
Although this seems like a big burden to students who are looking to relax during the summer after a long school year, it is crucial to keep students minds thinking about school so they are not bl... | 6 | 961 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
A7D79F1D4485 | The last day of school is a day most students are eager to reach. For three months of the year, things like waking up early, studying, and homework aren't daily stressers. However, some teachers will assign summer projects to assure that their students continue their learning over the break, and that they are adequatel... | 6 | 954 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
DA2FC1DDF83D | At last it's summer time! I can sleep in everyday and do whatever I please. However, I still have to consider the unpleasant thought of finishing my summer assignments before the end of summer vacation. Although some may say otherwise, summer projects should be student-designed because it gives students the opportunity... | 6 | 1,036 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
416FEFFA5DC6 | As the word 'summer' enters you mind, the thought of a beaming sun, turbulent waves, and tropical islands may subconsciously enter your mind. Summer time is the longest break given to students within the United States education system, this evokes the fear that with all this time spent out of school, students will begi... | 6 | 971 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
2E1385E0061F | Student-designed summer projects are the way to ensure continued learning over their own summer break. When dealing with summer projects they are often described as tedious, inconvenient, and boring. Due to that assumption, summer projects are rarely completed throughout the summer. Students view the summer as their pe... | 6 | 811 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Black/African American | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
A4FBD7A27089 | Warm and soothing waves of light, the eloquent smell of nature and the outdoors, summer is indeed here. For some, summer is a much needed break from the institutional grind of schooling in America, however for others it irritates their stress. Often, students worry about the projects assigned over the summer, because t... | 6 | 902 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
5B5A88772B1B | The volcano erupted with great force, shaking the room and everything inside. Students screamed while my teacher clapped and jumped for joy. I sat there, upset that I was unable to create something as big and impressive as Generic_Name's newspaper volcano. The presentation of our student-designed summer assignments mad... | 6 | 701 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
8C57C1D980FD | Various schools agree that summer is the optimal period for learning; however, they are indecisive over the issue of designating teacher-designed or student-designed projects as the prominent method for students to prepare for the next school year. Many teachers spend time creating projects for students to ensure stude... | 6 | 770 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
84DB11599420 | Why summer projects should be student-designed
The sun is shining, there is a slight breeze in the air, and no one is wearing pants that go past their knees. These are all signs that summer break has officially started. Summer break is the time that all students look forward to, as it means that there aren't any more ... | 6 | 793 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
AF8B704F2D50 | Summer break. What comes to mind when you think about summer break? For students, that might mean a road trip with family, a trip with friends to a Caribbean island, or even sleeping the days away and occasionally waking up to eat and watch Netflix. The last thing on a students mind is school work. While it is vital fo... | 6 | 767 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
16EAB34FDC87 | Every summer, millions of students flood from their school buildings, on their way to about 100 straight days away from any form of academia. With the traditional school system having been around for decades, educators and social science researchers alike have longed for a way to strike a balance between learning and l... | 6 | 642 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Two or more races/Other | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
7AE9517D3CF3 | Summer break: a time of peace, relaxation, and, most importantly to many, freedom from school; much of summer break's allure comes from students no longer having to worry about the many burdens school may provide. Now add a teacher-desgined project and you have a surefire recipe for disaster, with students being at bes... | 6 | 747 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
5782F64504B9 | Summer projects are a means by which schools are able to ensure that students are, in some way, continuing to persue an apprehension of knowledge and a greater understanding over the course of the summer. Schols assign students summer work to not only ensure that they continue to lern but to prepare them for the next s... | 6 | 877 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
3017001AD49F | Summer assignments are a staple of high school level classes. They are created in order to properly prepare a student for the difficult class that they are about to take, to act as an assurance of knowledge from a previous class, and to enable students to determine what to expect from the class. These assignments have ... | 6 | 997 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Asian/Pacific Islander | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
AA52EF531B30 | For as long as I can remember, my parents always stressed the importance of education.
They always checked in on me while I was studying during the weekends to tell me I was doing a good job and praised me for my work ethic whenever I brought home exceptional grades. After the 9 months of working hard to complete home... | 6 | 947 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Black/African American | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
57972ED116D7 | Education allows students to pursue their goals in life and be the change they want to see in the world. There is a freedom that comes with education; doors open for some who have higher education where they do not for others. However, in order to get to a point where you can pursue your passions, you must learn the ba... | 6 | 1,021 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
6120EF6FC0BF | Summer projects are a great way for students to stay sharp during their long hiatus from school. The summer should be a time for students to relax and explore their passions without having to worry about schoolwork too much. But they should still have a few projects to do over the break so when they get back to school ... | 6 | 940 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
FC623FF64C7D | All over the United states, students are given the task of completing summer projects over summer break. Teachers assign projects such as review packets or books in an attempt to keep their rising students from forgetting the materials they have learned. Some teacher even require students to continue learning and provi... | 6 | 859 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
C63A99AC3E6E | Think about a time in your life when you've been assigned a project to do over summer, and think about how much of a learning experience it was, and where you could have improved. There are many schools that require students to complete summer projects during their break. The reason they do this is to assure that their... | 6 | 980 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Hispanic/Latino | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
39B821028D1A | When summer break comes by, do teachers first think summer projects or do students? Summer projects are created for students to continue learning during break to ensure that their academic efforts are still working and intact once school comes back around the corner in late august. During the long duration of almost th... | 6 | 850 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | Black/African American | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
5ED9FAF3FEA0 | I remember as a freshman going into my sophomore I did not want to do a summer project because I wanted to just enjoy my summer and relieve myself of the stress from freshman year. Once I thought to myself that this project would actually help me with my sophomore year, despite the amount of work I would have to do, I ... | 6 | 1,052 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | F | 11 | No | Black/African American | Economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
998BBB8AB63C | All teachers fear the inevitable "summer slide" that comes during summer break. In order to combat this trend, many schools are starting to assign summer projects to students in order to help them retain information and further their education. However, many people disagree on whether the projects should be designed by... | 6 | 934 | Summer projects | Independent | Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during their break. Should these summer projects be teacher-designed or student-designed? Take a position on this question. Support your response with reasons and specific examples. | null | M | 11 | No | White | Not economically disadvantaged | Not identified as having disability |
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