Blake Bastain

Designed to work with Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week assignment, this versatile form will work with almost any text or speech. Full Packet includes instructions, forms, directions, annotation guide, and two rubrics--one descriptive and one single point, with comments for easy feedback and assessment.

Are your high school English or AP students struggling to move beyond simple summaries? Do you want to equip them with a powerful tool for analyzing complex non-fiction texts and mastering the skills needed for college-level work and standardized tests? Introducing the Rhetorical Precis Toolkit, your all-in-one source for teaching students how to write the perfect precis! This comprehensive resource is designed to guide students step-by-step through the four-sentence structure of a rhetorical p

Struggling to make use of your instructional coaches, or identify and solve problems in your subject matter teams? Put words to the issues and solve them more easily with this easy and intuitive worksheet.

Tired of seeing your insights and feedback tossed into the garbage? Make reflection an assignment unto itself! This packet includes a structured set of reflection questions, spare questions, and two rubrics--a full descriptive rubric and a single point with comments already embedded.

In Mortimer J. Adler's essay "How to Mark a Book," he argues that marking books is crucial for active reading and achieving true intellectual ownership, viewing it not as damage but as engaging in a conversation with the author. Adler suggests techniques such as underlining, vertical lines, stars, numbering arguments, cross-referencing pages, circling keywords, and writing notes to make a book one's own. This is an excellent resource for teaching both annotation and argument.

Help your students focus their learning, reflections, and reactions with these simply sentence starters.