text: The teachers should design the assignments because they are the only ones that know what is going to be taught in the class. This way, the teachers can give their students the right amount of prior exposure to the contents of the course before the school year starts. Many of my teachers this year used this tactic. Specifically, my chemistry teacher gave out a project that was due on the last day of the summer break. The project was to read about the history of the periodic table, how it was formed, and how elements and compounds are named; then, we had to answer some questions made by the teacher about what we had just learned. The motive behind giving students this assignment was so that the students would get acclimated to the elements and how to use them. This helped not only students but teachers as well. Teachers often spend many classes building a base of information on a certain topic before they begin the true course work. Summer assignments are a way that teachers can bypass this and save precious class time for the true coursework. An AP Calculus AB teacher in my school did that this year in their class for the first time. They assigned a project that made students use skills they learned in Math Analysis, the preceding course, and strengthened them for use in Calculus AB. This ensured that the students now had a good base of the necessary skills, students had prior knowledge, and she did not have to spend some extra classes reviewing those skills. The teachers were able to help all parties involved by designing a summer project for their students based on what the students would learn in the class.