Literary arts

Hey again gang! Imagine this, you assign a paper. To make it more interesting to your students you let them write about whatever they want. then, the inevitable-one of your students asks for an ideal, but you really don't have any prepared. Where do you turn? where do u go? what do you do? Well, I have come across several good sites that are "topic generators" that you can turn to. http://www.writingfix.com/classroom_tools/dailypromptgenerator.htm
(scroll down-It really is there)
http://www.daydreamingonpaper.com/random.html
I like these because you just push a button and get all sorts of fun, creative, writing prompts that will inspire your students.  It also uses technology-oh so important.
If you were to have your students write every day a good site for that kind of thing is http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/
I think that having your children learn about writing is important(and obviously the state agrees with me...it is in there standards) but computer use is important today and will only get more more important over time. These sites are a good way to combine both. Have fun writing and useing technology in the classroom!

So, this weeks picture is from
http://www.watermelon.org/educators-lessons-arts.asp