text: Summer projects should not be about keeping the student busy. They should be about preparing the student for the new class along with helping the student retain past information. If the projects were student-designed, then students would be more likely to learn better. When I was in tenth grade, our task was to create our own project based off a certain number of topics that were given to us. I chose to do my project about World War Two. Since I chose something that I am interested in, I learned a lot of new information and information that I already knew. If I was assigned a project about old civilizations, then I probably wouldn't have learned as well as I did. This is a prime example showing how a student-designed project will help a student learn better.