Georgia 10.L.GC.2.c
The Standard
Maintain consistent use of active voice throughout a text for deliberate effect. (C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose clear subjects that perform the actions in their sentences. They revise passive constructions that hide or weaken the actor. They sustain active voice across a full passage to create clarity, pace, or emphasis.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student writes a focused paragraph in which clear subjects perform the actions. The student finds accidental passive constructions, revises them, and explains how active voice improves clarity, pace, or emphasis.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every sentence with a form of “be” is passive. They may confuse active voice with present tense or assume the subject must be a person. Some switch voices without noticing when revising longer paragraphs.
How to Assess It
- Give students a five-sentence paragraph containing two passive sentences. Ask them to revise the paragraph into consistent active voice and explain one effect of their changes.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips to sort by voice, then have them revise the passive strips and arrange all sentences into one clear paragraph.
Compare active and passive versions of a news paragraph, then discuss which version feels clearer, faster, or more direct and why.
Run an active voice relay where teams rewrite passive sentences, identify the actor, and earn a point for each accurate revision.
Have students rewrite a school announcement so staff or student actors perform each action, then compare its clarity with the original.
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