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learn topics their interested in
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make students more motivated to learn.
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The students would develop responsibility in the sense that they have to hold themselves accountable and actually do their job of creating the project. Most students are used to their teachers assigning them projects so this would also force them to get out of their comfort zone and do something their not used to. If t...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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When teachers assign projects the students are forced to learn certain material but letting them design their own project gives them the freedom to learn about different topics. Even though the students are learning about the topics they have chosen, they are still learning new information and keeping their brain worki...
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If the students are able to pick their own topic and control what they are learning about they will be more motivated to complete the project. Letting the students have choices on their project makes it a lot easier and interesting for them resulting in them being motivated to finish it.
Evidence
Evidence 3
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Student-designed projects would assure the students continue learning on their break. It would teach them many useful skills and prepare them for doing large tasks on their own
Concluding Statement
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Some may argue student-designed projects give kids too much freedom
Counterclaim
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student-designed projects allows the students to enjoy their summer while also learning new information. The project keeps the student thinking and using his/her knowledge which should be all that matters. Student-designed projects keeps students motivated and interested in learning.
Rebuttal
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School projects offer students with the chance to a more engaging and creative way of learning through their own forms of research, application, and presentation of what they are learning about in school. During school, projects are often based off of particular subjects of study in different classes, such as making sh...
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Summer projects should be student-driven and designed
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keep the student engaged and interested in what they are doing
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to allow them the freedom of summer vacation
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to increase the value of what they learned to them and their intellectual development.
Claim
Claim 3
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During the summer, students have more time to focus on what they enjoy and are engaged in. From traveling to sports, students have way more interest in things they enjoy doing in the summer rather than teacher-designed school activities and projects, things that they have experienced throughout the whole school year pr...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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Students should have the opportunity to learn about something that they are interested in in order to keep them engaged and do their best work on the summer project
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Claim 4
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Summer is also a time for students to have freedom from the walls of their school building and to experience new and exciting things.
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Claim 5
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This is another reason why summer projects should be student-designed: students should have the opportunity to learn through ways that they love and are engaged in, allowing them freedom to grow and learn through their own motivations. If summer projects for students were teacher-designed, already handing students a to...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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students should be able to choose their summer project in order to increase the value of what they learned to themselves and their intellectual development.
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Often when a student is given a project or activity by a teacher of something that they are not as interested in, students become less likely to actually retain what they are learning and are not able to grow as freely or nearly as much. In comparison, when students are given the opportunity to pick their topic of stud...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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Summer projects can be extremely beneficial to students and their learning outside of the classroom while also giving the student a way to express their passions and interests. This is necessary for a student to stay engaged, learn with value, and to do their work to the best of their ability. This not only allows a st...
Concluding Statement
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Imagine, your school requiring you to do teacher designed projects while your on summer break. School's want to make sure their students are still learning during their time off, but is this the right way to do it?
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I think the students should be able to pick what type of project they want to do because, it will be something they are interested about.
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If students are told to do a project about something they have no interest in, they either wont complete it, or will do a bad job on it
Claim
Claim 1
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Especially without the teacher being right there to answer any questions they might have about the assignment. Students that get to choose their project will have more drive to want to do it, because its something they are interested in. They won't look at it as an assignment but as a learning experience for them to le...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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It also gives students the ability to imagine and be creative when it comes to making the project for their self.
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Students will be more hands on and exited to do something that they get to pick oppose to a teacher rubric they would have to follow to complete the assignment. Also they might get bored and loose motivation throughout the teacher designed project. If students design their own projects it makes them put more thought be...
Evidence
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Students may not like the idea of doing schoolwork over their break, but if they get to choose what they do they might be more intrigued by the assignment.
Claim
Claim 3
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Although it might be harder for some students to come up with their own ideas
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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in the long run it will be more fun for them.
Rebuttal
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Learning about something you are interested in, is a lot easier oppose to learning about something you dont care about. Getting students engaged in the assignment is the main point of making them complete one.
Evidence
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If students are engaged in learning more about something they enjoy, the knowledge about the topic will most likely stay in their mind better than something they either dont want to write about or dont know anything about. Furthermore if a student has a question on the assignment or doesnt know how to do something who ...
Evidence
Evidence 4
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Teacher designed projects are never going to get done over summer break, but let the student pick the project and you have a better chance to see a completed project.
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Claim 4
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I feel like students should definitely be able to pick their project based on how students are with assigned work they dont want to do. It gives a great learning experience and teaches independence for students who might need other life skills before they graduate high school. It not only teaches the students responsib...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Do you want to make teaching fun, let your students decide their own summer projects! As schools want their students to continue learning during their break, its important that students have a interest on their education so, that they will be able to succeed in their desired careers. Studies show that students are mor...
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The summer projects, schools require students to complete should be student-designed
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because, it allows them to be creative, open-minded, responsible
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and to have the ability to retain information easier.
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As a student, I feel more encouraged to put effort in school assignments by working with other students and getting use to leadership skills as what we need in the future to succeed. Student-designed projects will solely be up to students who get to choose interesting project ideas which will be fun to think of creativ...
Evidence
Evidence 1
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Class clowns become more interested and encouraged in learning new topics. Students that tend to take school more seriously strengthens their passion on their goal. Students will be more engaged in their upcoming classes, as they already built that skill through their summer projects. When I was in middle school, we ha...
Evidence
Evidence 2
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Although, others may argue that having teacher-designed projects will reduce cheating in classes and give students a preview of what to expect from the class when students are enrolled in the fall.
Counterclaim
Counterclaim 1
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Teachers can get ahead start to see who's struggling, can assist them throughout the year and plan accordingly. Teacher-designed projects could help the class become ahead in their lessons in the fall. Depending on your teacher, you may be subjected to bias positions and issues for your projects. For example, my freshm...
Evidence
Evidence 3
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Personally, I didn't agree with the position I got but, had to improvise and it made me feel like my opinion didn't matter; I was hiding behind this position my teacher gave me; especially since the issue was about my identity and how my ancestors were treated in the past. I didn't want to support the pros on slavery ...
Rebuttal
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The summer projects, schools require students to complete should be student-designed because, it allows them to be creative, open-minded, responsible and to have the ability to retain information easier. Teachers can get to know students and learn their interests and goals. It should be the teacher's priority to mainta...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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Is a student to be trusted with the same decisions as an experienced teacher, even when the decisions impact them? The decisions in question are summer assignments and if students should be the ones to decide the nature of their assignments or if the teacher should still be the one to make the assignments.
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I believe it would be best if these summer assignments were teacher-designed
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teachers understand what students need to learn
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teachers have more experience with structuring these assignments
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students may purposefully make the assignment effortless to complete.
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teachers know what information students need to maintain a grasp on.
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Once summer is done, students tend to forget knowledge that is essential for a smooth learning experience in the upcoming school year. This may slow a student down and affect their learning pace which, in turn, may impede the whole class because the teacher may have to spend time bringing the student to where they need...
Evidence
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Some may disagree with this and say students may research the learning materials that the assignment must include
Counterclaim
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Teachers, however, are more familiar with the material for they have been teaching it for many years, they may understand what should and shouldn't be included because they have prior experience with the issue. This understanding of the necessary materials that students tend to forget is a significant factor when cons...
Rebuttal
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teachers have more experience structuring these assignments to make it easy for the student to understand
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Many assignments given to students by teachers are assignments used in the past because it is shown that they are efficient in making the material understandable to the students. The reason these assignments are helpful is because the teacher structured them to be easy for the student to understand. Teachers have been ...
Evidence
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Some may say that this is a good learning experience for students to learn how to structure assignments.
Counterclaim
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This proposition may apply to other situations, but it does not apply to this one because students may have difficulty structuring the assignment, resulting in a confusing structure that may confuse the students completing the assignment over summer. Experience is a very important factor when considering if summer assi...
Rebuttal
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students may decide to make the assignment easier for themselves.
Claim
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Though they are beneficial, many students disagree with summer assignments because they believe their summer should be an uninterrupted break from school and education. Since students feel this way, they may purposefully make the assignments much shorter and easier to avoid doing too much work. Students would rather ta...
Evidence
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Students would argue that they would make assignments easier and shorter because teacher-designed assignments are too difficult and lengthy.
Counterclaim
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However this argument does not stand because the length and difficulty of the assignments are designed to aid the student in learning, the assignment is not meant to be completed promptly, it is meant to be completed over the course of their long break. This pattern of laziness in students is an important contribution ...
Rebuttal
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Though controversial among students, summer assignments have a very important role in students' summers, they ensure that students don't fall behind once they return to school in fall. It is important that these assignments remain teacher-designed as opposed to student designed because teachers understand what material...
Concluding Statement
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Teachers usually believe they know whats best for their students, since from a time long past they were students too, but that is not necessarily true. Its been a long time since teachers roamed the halls of high school or middle school, and things have changed.
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This is why students need to be the ones designing summer projects
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since students are the ones doing them
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the stress of students
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the balance between work and fun.
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This next bit is simple, since students are the ones doing the projects they should be the ones to design it
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Although during the school year teachers design most if not all homework that comes the students way, that homework is not on the same scale as a summer project. With a summer project you are given the whole summer to finish the project and since it is on such a large scale and affecting so much time, students should b...
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Stress is a fickle thing; not enough of it and nothing will get done, but if theres to much your whole life can fall apart. Students and teachers experience different kinds of stress. Students stress about turning things in on time or being on their best behavior. While teachers stress about being nice to students, wh...
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Yet if the student is able to be the one who designs and creates the project, it can have no stress involved. Stress is an important part of why students should be the ones designing summer projects but expectations put into place by the teacher play a part aswell.
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Expectations play quite the role these days, they cause people to flourish or dissapoint. Dissapointment is what will happen to those few students who never go above and beyond, but stay average if teachers design these projects. Students have many things to worry about during the school year, but during the summer th...
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This is why students need to design projects, so that everyone can get the score their expectations they believe.
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Expectations, stress levels and students doing the projects, are all reasons why students should be the ones to design summer projects and not teachers. Summer is a time of clarity for students and teachers alike, they dont have to worr about grades or waking up early to go to school and it should stay that why. All in...
Concluding Statement
Concluding Statement 1
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The sound of the final bell of the school year ringing, the rushing of students out the front door as they are saying goodbye to their friends, and the delightful, warm summer breeze flowing in the wind excites most students as they approach summer break. While summer may mean that students can have downtime and go on ...
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Summer projects should be designed by teachers
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they know what will be taught in the class,
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they can strengthen their students' skills that would be needed throughout the year,
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they can give kids an experience for what the class will be like.
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Teachers that know what the curriculum looks like allows them to know what to include in projects to help students prepare for the fall. For example, a teacher can assign a summer book report that focuses on Greek tragedies to prepare students for literature by Shakespeare. Teachers that know what the curriculum looks ...
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Teachers can strengthen students' skills through summer projects because they can assign work that will focus on important skills. For instance, a teacher can look through their lessons and pick out the skills that will be useful to have students review such as sentence structure and grammar editing. Teachers can also ...
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while teacher-designed summer projects can enhance student learning, one might argue that teacher-designed projects do not give students an opportunity to thrive in creativity
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however, it is important that students begin to thrive in their academics over the summer.
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Teachers can give an insight on what their class will be like because teachers can create projects that focus on different types of writing styles. For example, teachers can prepare students to write persuasive essays such as why people should go to the beach over the summer or go to a historic place because they will ...
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In conclusion, summer projects should be designed by teachers because they will know what will be taught in class, they can improve students' skills, and they can give kids an experience of what the class will be like. Even though students will not be able to express their creativity skills, they will excel in the upco...
Concluding Statement
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How would you like to do a boring project on your summer break? Doesn't sound fun, does it? Schools believe that during the summer students need to actively learn. They ensure students continue learning by giving them summer projects. The matter at hand is; whether these projects should be teacher-designed or student-d...
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having the students design the projects assigned can allow them to take into account the time they have available.
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Teacher-designed projects are very intricate and the teachers expect too much from the students.
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Teachers have high standards. High standards can be good during the school year but for a summer project this can become very stressful. There are a plethora of components to a teacher-designed project, research, citations, outlines, rough drafts, and countless more. These projects force students to push themselves.
Evidence
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Many might argue that its good for students to push themselves
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but it is summer break after all and students have been pushing themselves for about ten months. These students are tired and adding stress to their vacation is cruel.
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Doing a project you're uninterested in can be very bland and boring. Teachers don't think about how uninteresting a topic or project can be to a student. Not having interest in a topic can be very detrimental to a students grade and the effort they put into the project. The same reaction can come from a boring class, s...
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If a student were to designed the project they could choose a topic they were genuinely interested in. This would set them up for success and they could have fun learning something new.
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Summer break is commonly associated with spending time with family and going on vacations. This is the case for most students. Giving students a long, details, mandated project is time consuming and takes away from their vacation. As a child of a divorced couple, my summers are filling with traveling to see my dad and ...
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Given the chance to design their summer project students can ensure for themselves that it will not take away from their own plans and it will encourage them to finish it in a more timely manner.
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Some schools assign students summer projects to assure they continue to learn during their vacation. These projects should be designed by the students. The projects should be student-designed because teachers have high standards. Due to these high standards their projects require students to push themselves when all ye...
Concluding Statement
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Summer projects, even though most kids disagree with these being assigned in the summer, are a great way to make sure kids keep being productive and expanding their knowledge throughout the summer. That makes them very important since most kids detach themselves from school related activities in the summer and making s...
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Summer projects should be student-designed
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it will make the student have more fun and expand their creativity
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also assuring the best results.
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Summer is about being able to do whatever and have fun.
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