text: An obvious reason why teachers should create summer assignments over students is their knowledge of the curriculum. A teacher has been studying or teaching the content of the course for multiple years, and is more experienced than students at the course content. The teacher is able to create a foundation using the summer assignment because they have an understanding of what needs to be learned before coming to class on the first day. As a high school student, I have had many summer assignments, including the assignment for AP World History. The assignment was teacher-designed and included reading a novel, writing a summary, a list of examples, and a short paper. Although this assignment may seem tedious, since it contains multiple writing parts and a 200 page reading about multiple topics, it provided me with an understanding of the course load and the content of the course. It completed its job of preparing me for the course, and I ultimately got an A on the first quiz and subsequent quizzes by using my notes from the summer assignment. Summer assignments may seems long, excruciating, and useless, eventually end up being a tool to help you succeed. That quality is lacking in the summer assignments that are student-designed. Students like to spend their summer break doing exactly that: being on break. The last thing students want to do is spend time on schoolwork, so they would design the most minimal summer assignment possible and gain little to nothing out of it. The lack of a proper summer assignment leads to the student not attaining a grade that they would have with a teacher-designed summer assignment. Thus, a student-designed assignment is less effective at integrating with the content than a teacher-designed assignment.