Task 5 Online Writing

I checked out most of the writing tools you listed. I could use the “Historic Tale Construction Kit” at http://www.adgame-wonderland.de/type/bayeux.php for a creative writing assignment
for a Wordly Wise lesson. I am always looking for new ways for them to do these assignments.

I plan on using at least one of the comics writing tools. “Pixton” http://pixton.com/
seems to offer a lot of variety and flexibility, and it has a good tutorial. Both “Witty Comics” http://www.wittycomics.com/make-comic.php and “Make Believe Comix” http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ do not appear to be as versatile but seem easy to use.

Although I probably would not use “Big Universe” http://www.biguniverse.com/ for the creation of stories with my students this coming year, I definitely want them to read some of the books for the 9-12 age group created by others. Many of these books are easily understood and are an accurate and excellent introduction to selections that we read. The one on Greece provides background for The Adventures of Ulyssehttp://www.biguniverse.com/readkidsbooks/read/74/dm
The book on Rome http://www.biguniverse.com/readkidsbooks/72/rome is a very good introduction to a short selection we read on Pompeii and also the novel The Secrets of Vesuvius.
The Solar System book http://www.biguniverse.com/readkidsbooks/348/the-solar-system and Outer Space http://www.biguniverse.com/readkidsbooks/read/345/dm are both informative review before reading a selection about our solar system “The Five Wanderers.” There is a comic book version of A Christmas Carol http://www.biguniverse.com/readkidsbooks/read/374/dm
that I think the seventh grade English teachers may want to use.