Holidays are every day!

http://www.brownielocks.com/month2.html

This is a link to a website that documents what holiday/observances take place on each and every day of the year. It also tells what observances occur monthly and weekly throughout the year. Just kind of a cool website that may inspire some teaching ideas or writing ideas! :)

For example, September is Self-Improvement Month...especially during a time as crazy as adolescence, if this was used as some sort of writing prompt, middle schoolers could reflect on how they could improve themselves psychologically, socially, morally, etc.