This applies to 5th grade this year but I hope it isn't going to happen in my child's middle school next year.
Please don't assign a paper Monday due Friday week after week after week. First, I hate that the testing for these kids (4th, 8th, 10th here in FL) are 45 minutes writing to a prompt. So the teachers give them tons of practice writing to a prompt. That is all fine an good because there will be essay tests ahead that are answer the question in a short amount of time. But there is so much more to writing than endlessly writing to a prompt.
