Florida B.E.S.T. ELA.10.R.2.3
The Standard
Analyze an author's choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in historical American speeches and essays.
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students determine what a writer or speaker wants an audience to think, feel, or do. They trace how word choice, organization, evidence, tone, and rhetorical techniques help reach that goal. They also consider the audience and historical setting.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students state a clear purpose and support it with specific language, structure, tone, or evidence from the text. They explain how those choices affect the original audience and help accomplish one or more goals.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often name the topic instead of explaining what the author wants the audience to think, feel, or do. They may label repetition or word choice without explaining its effect. Some assume a text has only one purpose and ignore the original audience or historical setting.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Choose one sentence from today’s text and explain how its wording helps the author influence the original audience. Require one quoted detail and three sentences of analysis.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Color-code a printed speech excerpt for claims, emotional language, repetition, and calls to action, then label the purpose each choice serves.
Discuss: Which audience response did the author seek most, agreement, action, trust, or reflection, and which two details support your answer?
Play Purpose Match by pairing rhetorical choice cards with audience effect cards, then defend each match using a line from the text.
Compare a historical call to action with a recent public service message, noting how each adapts language for its audience and goal.
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Related Standards
- ELA.9.R.2.3
Analyze how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language.
- ELA.11.R.2.3
Analyze an author's choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in speeches and essays from the Classical Period.
- ELA.12.R.2.3
Evaluate an author's choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s).
- ELA.10.R.2.2
Analyze the central idea(s) of historical American speeches and essays.
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