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A students future college path can also be benefited by student based summer projects due to the option of focusing on their desired topic.
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As students age into their final years of high school, many already know the path they want to take in college and ultimately their occupations. Giving students an option to focus and research on these topics will not only allow them to understand more about the topic but also build their application to give them a bet...
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the guidelines given to the entirety of the public schooling system leaves students in lower socioeconomic situations to not be able to complete certain projects
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The student led project system allows students to find a topic that is accessible for them rather than one that has a large demand for expensive purchases.
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Certain projects specifically in the science department, require an excessive amount of resources making them hard to obtain out of the school setting. If the teacher led projects would require students to purchase these goods, difficulties would arise in regards to the ability for all students to have access and an ab...
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Projects that can be completed during the summer should be led by the students desires and aspirations as it will gain allow for the most success of the student. Student led projects show most effective through the ability for students to use their imagination, research a topic they might study in college, and complete...
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Every year students look forward to going on summer break and getting away from school. This three month break often involves forgetting important skills and not learning new information. Some schools require students to complete summer projects to solve these problems.
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These projects should be teacher-designed
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to ensure that the project is relevant
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has a difficulty on grade level with that of the student
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allows for easy collaboration and communication
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While being able to pick their own topic for a summer project may be more fun for students
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a teacher-designed project would insure that the information being learned connects to what they need to know for school
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For example, a physics teacher may want to assign a project to introduce momentum or energy, this will allow students to come into class with a general understanding of the subject. Having a project with a specific learning goal will make students feel as if they are making the most of their time and are learning somet...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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When given the task of creating their own projects, students will often design the easiest project they can get away with
Evidence
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Teachers can ensure appropriate difficulty in the projects by designing them themselves
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During the summer it is important for students to be able to contact their teachers and ask for help. If a project is student-designed, a teacher may have difficulty assisting a student if they become confused and need help
Evidence
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Summer projects need to be teacher-designed so they are on topic, have a reasonable difficulty, and allow for optimal communicate and collaboration. Summer projects are often dreaded by students, but a teacher-designed project is more beneficial than a student-designed project.
Concluding Statement
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Although teacher designed summer projects are a great way for students to learn about something related to school while their off school
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If the project is teacher designed then it gives no way for the students to express their creativity
Rebuttal
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By allowing students to design their own project they will have a way to voice their opinions on something they may be concerned or upset about
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It would also allow students to design a project about something that may interest them.
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Say for instance a student was worried about people speeding through his neighborhood. He could make his project about that concern and talk about ways or measures that should be put in place to prevent it from happening. This would also make the student work harder due to the fact that this is a problem that the stude...
Evidence
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For example,say a student is interested in becoming a mechanic after they are done with school. If they research and design a project on that subject it can give them an outlook into the future if that is an occupation they are interested in. It can also give them a head start in that career path with the knowledge the...
Evidence
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If the project is teacher designed it can help students get ready for next year with school related material
Concluding Statement
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if the students get to choose how they will design the project it gives them multiple subjects and opportunities to design a project about something that intrigues and interests them. Which they will find way more exciting to complete than a teacher designed project
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By designing their own projects students can get information on an occupation,talk about an issue thats affecting the world or their community,and voice their opinions on topics they are passionate about.    
Concluding Statement
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Summer projects keep the mind sharp. However often tedious, summer projects can often be beneficial as it can prepare the students for the following year or preferebly life. Some believe that these projects should be teacher designed so that students have the base kowledge on what will be covered that year, however tha...
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If these summer projects were student designed, where students had the freedom to choose, they could work on a something they truly found interesting. These projects could give them life experience rather than school experience.
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these summer projects can be anything from work experiece to writing a noval. For example if a student loved to write and thought they may have a carreer as a jounalist or even an author they may decide their time was best spent on sharpening those skills. Not only would their time be spent to make themselves a better ...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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These students will come back to school with more maturity, life experience and perhaps some money in the bank.
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rather than coming back the school with dred and resentment, they'll come back excited to showcase what they've learned.
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if teachers assigned a massive work load on everything they might need to pass the tests during the year, students will be anxious, unmotivated and stressed by the first day of school. This would kill students desire to learn and cause resentment towards teachers. However, if students can come back to school with the c...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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there is a difference between schooling and learning
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Schooling is a soley a tool to educate individuals however it is temporary. Learning is rather a life long jouney, something that should never stop. There is learning before school such as when you learned to walk and talk for the first time and then there is learning after school when you get a job or simply when you ...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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summer projects should be the students responsibility. These summer projects should inspire students to learn and experience new things. The goal is to have students motivated when they return to school rather than stressed and anxious for the year to end. Lastly learning is a life long jouney, schooling is temporary.
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Summer break is a long three months away from school for students to relax, learn new skills and enjoy themselves. Most students tend to forget everything they are taught throughout the school year over this break. Summer break to majority of students is time for having the best time of their lives doing all the things...
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Teachers would be the best choice to design these summer projects
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they thoroughly know the syllabus of the course they teach
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they would give realistic projects students can complete on time
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teachers would be fair in selecting the type and criteria of the project.
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Teachers have all the information about the courses they teach and what their students need to know each year.
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Teacher-designed projects would entail the necessary topics and lessons for students to work on during their summer break.
Evidence
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Other people might argue that the students are also well informed about what they are being taught so should create their own summer projects
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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but most students might just have an idea about what they need to know but might not know about the course in detail as much as the teacher does with all their years of experience and trying new approaches to figure out what works best for their students
Rebuttal
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Students might also just want to create projects that would be very easy to complete just so they can get it over with. At the end of the day if students are allowed to create their own projects they end up learning nothing new because it was based on stuff they already knew. For example a Geometry teacher teaching ten...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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With teacher designed-projects they are more likely to have realistic amount of work and would be possible for students to complete and meet the goal at the end of the break
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Claim 5
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teachers would most definitely not give too much work to overburden students since they also need some rest or too little work to students but give them just enough work for the break.
Evidence
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if student-designed projects are used students are more likely to create very short and straight to the point projects because most students are lazy and just do not want to be bothered with any work so would not want to challenge themselves to research and do more but would want very few questions that would not need ...
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Counterclaim 2
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A teacher who teaches a 12th grade English class could give a summer project for students to read and summarize a book of their choice and find out the meanings of 20 new words in the book but students would have probably wanted a project where they just write out ten new words from the book they read.
Evidence
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Every student always wants the easy way out of everything so if allowed to create a summer project would just create a project based on what they are very good at for example; a project with artwork, a crossword puzzle or a project about their own sentences and this would lead to a disagreement among the students to pi...
Evidence
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a teacher would not be biased in choosing a summer project for their students
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they would assign a project based on skills all their students are expected to know or already have without picking out what some particular people would want in that class.
Evidence
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teachers know the best approaches and methods when it comes to projects for their students because they have worked with many different students over the years and came up with very effective teacher-designed summer projects to help their students keep learning over the break without stressing them.                 ...
Concluding Statement
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I believe summer projects should be student-designed
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it allows students to be more involved in what there learning
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it also allows students to learn at there own speed and level.
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it allows the student to be more involved in what there learning
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For example if a student receives a summer project from he or she's teacher it's highly likely that the project will be focused on everything that the student has learned before the summer. But what if the student dose not need to learn everything what if they only need to focus on certain thing that they are strugglin...
Evidence
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it allows students learn at there own speed and level.
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I personally believe that the summer projects that are given to student are pretty challenging and a lot of students and because of this a lot of student either decides not to do the project or they cheat and end up not learning anything; thats why I feel so strongly that student should be allowed to choose and design...
Evidence
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On the other hand teacher may feel that if they designed the projects that it will be better for students and they also may feel that overly challenging students is a good thing because it put students in a position to challenge themselves and to learn at a higher level;
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while its true that some students may benefit from this there are still a lot of students who wont I believe that a student my first master the level that there at now in order to proceed into a higher level of education.
Rebuttal
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These are all the reasons i believe summer projects should be student-designed because it allows students to be more involved in what there learning and it also allows students to learn at there own speed and level.   
Concluding Statement
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Summer assignments are never fun and many students can agree with that statement. Even though they are beneficial to continue your learning throughout your break.
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Summer assignments should be designed by the teachers of the course
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they are familiar with the curriculum,
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they understand what is needed to be tested on throughout the course
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the teacher knows what the students are capable of doing.
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Teachers are familiar with the curriculum and know what needs to be on your assignment to ensure that you are successful in the class.
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The teachers have learned that topic and are experts on the subject. Going to a college and receiving a higher education in a certain topic makes the professor best fit to decide what you should learn during your break off from school. For example in a AP Human Geography class the summer assignment was to fill in maps ...
Evidence
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Teachers know what is being tested in a course and what is expected for the student to know
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Claim 5
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Teachers have to teach certain things to the students while following a guideline. This tells the teacher what the student should know by the end of the year. By giving the students a summer assignment that lets them be ahead and know certain topic then it benefits the students and makes them receive a better understan...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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48A79347EF59
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Some students may think that a student-designed assignment would be easier and more beneficial.
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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This is incorrect due to the fact that the students aren't familiar with the subject or what needs to be taught. The students also aren't responsible enough to decide what needs to be learned over their break.
Rebuttal
Rebuttal 1
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Teacher understand the students position since they were all in the same place at a certain point in time, therefore they will assign what they know the student is capable of doing without overwhelming them.
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Claim 6
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48A79347EF59
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The teacher will give the student a doable amount of work that will benefit them without stressing and overwhelming them. A teacher that taught AP Human Geo at a high school understood that students wanted a break from school and they didn't want to do useless work that wouldn't help them. Therefore he gave them a good...
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Evidence 3
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48A79347EF59
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Summer assignments should be teacher-designed due to the fact that teachers understand the students and understand the curriculum so they can balance an assignment that benefits the students. Teachers are more familiar with the subject and know what the students will be tested on, therefore the assignments will have a ...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Imagine it's minutes away from the school having summer break, then all of a sudden the teacher hands out the summer project packet the class is assigned to do during summer. Others think it'll be a horrible assignment because the teacher is creating the requirements. If students really pay attention to what's happenin...
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Summer projects should be teacher designed
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they have more experience,
Claim
Claim 1
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they'll make sure the class covers new material
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Claim 2
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it'll be easier for teachers to grade.
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Claim 3
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9D9F53F9EB5C
1,618,609,171,976
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They've went to college, learned about designing projects, and spent their time and money on being taught how to grade and make assignments. The school faculty know our strengths and weaknesses, what we need and what we don't, teachers have walked in our shoes. They know what students want before the students know.
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9D9F53F9EB5C
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Teachers know how to introduce new topics, ideas, and questions that'll force students to use their brain. They're aware of what children know and don't know. Teachers know that it would take too long for students to make their assignment because they haven't been taught how to grade or make a rubric to grade with.
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9D9F53F9EB5C
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They know what they want to look for in the assignment. Teachers teach, make assignments, and grade for a living, and they know what to expect. The school faculty know what we'll achieve and what we'll fail at, they making rubrics and grading systems designed for students.
Evidence
Evidence 3
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students would have fun inventing their own requirements for the assignment
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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students just use what they already know. Teachers will make sure others learn because that's their job. They'll have students focus on the project, and not creating it.
Rebuttal
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having the teacher design the classes summer project makes it easier for you and your teacher. Students shoud learn and focus on their work while teachers should make the work and focus on what the students need to learn. Teachers have more knowledge when it comes to grading, they'll make sure students contain new inf...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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981DFF841D8B
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Giving teachers an extra task like designing a summer based project can be hard or easy it really just depends on how you look at the situation. Teachers assign projects all year, so this should be no different. There are many types of teachers that teach many different subjects that have to be remembered. Students are...
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981DFF841D8B
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students will be introduced to new topics in their project.
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This will get students to thinking and they will want to research since technology is the biggest thing right now. This will result in them participating and they will find out new information while completing their work. The new topics will help them learn stuff that is expected to be covered. The remembering will be ...
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981DFF841D8B
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every teacher will be expected to leave contact information to be reached.
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Claim 2
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Students are only expected to contact their teacher for help on his or her project. This is given to every student but mainly for ones without internet. There are also students who do not have parents or anyone they can rely on to help them so the teachers information is there for anyone nobody is singled out. Parents ...
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981DFF841D8B
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Students should create their own projects to show what they learned all year and what they do not know. Not every child needs a guiding hand or someone to lead them in the right direction. Each student can come up with their own project to show that they remember important lessons from class meetings. The teachers shou...
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981DFF841D8B
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Being assigned this project can help many students learn new things or relearn something they probably did not understand.
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teacher-designed projects can not only benefit students it helps them relearn things they did not understand.
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981DFF841D8B
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Nobody is perfect and anyone is capable of not knowing the right information due to miscommunication. It is alright to ask for help if you do not understand it is recommend to students. Some things can be self taught, but still not fully understood. Having a teacher that is willing to put in the effort to help his or h...
Concluding Statement
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Some schools will assign students projects over summer break to assure they will continue to learn school subjects. Summer is a long time and will give the students enough time to learn what is needed. There is a small debate as to whether the students or the teachers should design these projects. Although many teacher...
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students should design these projects
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