text: If my mom told me to wash the dishes, I would probably not do it. But, if my mom told me to bake a treat for dessert, I would totally do it because I love to bake. Students are the same way. If a teacher assigns a reading assignment and a student hates to read, the student is most likely not going to complete that assignment. This goes with summer assignments too. If the teacher assigns a summer assignment that the students do not care about, then they are more inclined not to do it. But, if the teacher allows the students to pick what they want to do for the summer assignment, then I promise they will do it. In 8th grade, I was given a assignment and it asked us to find shapes in everyday objects, items, and structures. I did it with my friend and we both had fun. We went to the mall and looked around to see if anything was making a shape that we could use for the project. This project gave us freedom because we could choose anything as long as it made a shape that was assigned. So, it gave us the gift of being creative and had guidelines to make sure we were learning the subject.