text: Firstly, if summer homework is assigned students are not likely to begin that homework until school is right around the corner again; at the point the only purpose the homework has is to refresh the students' memory. However, if projects are put in place of homework then the student will be more likely to start earlier in the summer. Additionally, if students design their own projects then they will instantly be more likely to do them, especially if they are allowed to pick a topic that interests them. For instance, at Generic_School there is one notorious class that gives summer homework. The way the teacher incentivizes doing the homework is by having a quiz within the first week of school on the summer homework. This is an unproductive way of going about this because the student now has a boring textbook that he must trudge through, plus if the student has high anxiety then they will worry the whole summer effectively making their "break" useless. If the teacher was to let the students pick a topic within chemistry and then research on their own then students wouldn't stress because they can pick a topic that truly interests them. Continuing with this example there are many subjects within chemistry that would be interesting to students such as chromotagraphy or the way molecules react to temperatures, reactivity in water, etc. Students would be more productive or excited and less worried about their summer project.