text: Another downside to teacher-designed project is that teachers often use some of the same projects over again. For example; I have done the same summer project for my English classes for the past two or three years. We were required to read three books and write excerpts about each. It wasn't a difficult endeavor, but it would've been so much more enjoyable to make a video or a presentation about the book rather than a quick summary. We also didn't get to pick the books we were given. The first year, I was lucky enough to have received