text: A third reason for a teacher to create summer assignments is that they are most probably being graded, and if a teacher gives the students free reign to invent their own assignments, it will be almost impossible to grade. The style of project would vary greatly, and it would take a teacher far longer to grade than if all of the students were given similar assignments, such as reading a book, and writing an analytical essay on it. What the teacher could do if the students desired a little bit of choice would be to give them several prompts to choose from, and allow the students to then do an assignment based on that. I myself have done summer assignments in that style, and they cause far less problems than from what I've heard from several friends who've had assignments that they get to decide.