Georgia 10.T.PM.1

10.T.PM.1 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• 10.T.PM.1.a

  Explain how a modern author adapts an archetypal story, myth, event, or figure to new purposes and circumstances. (I)

• 10.T.PM.1.b

  Identify and discuss major authors and works of two periods of English and American literary history, including key themes and stylistic features. (I)

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify recurring ideas, common literary forms, and recognizable language patterns in works from one historical period. They use textual details to explain how a work reflects that period.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can analyze a familiar or new passage and connect its theme, genre, and language choices to the studied period. They support each connection with specific words, structures, or literary techniques.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may label a theme with one word, such as freedom, instead of stating what the text says about freedom. They may confuse genre with style or assume every work from a period shares identical features.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a short excerpt from the studied period. Ask them to identify its genre, state one theme, and mark two language choices typical of the period.

1. 01

   Give groups excerpt cards to sort by theme, genre, and language feature, then require one quoted detail for each placement.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: How do this period's social concerns appear in one text's theme and word choice?

3. 03

   Play Period Detective by revealing short passages one at a time and awarding points for accurate claims supported by textual clues.

4. 04

   Compare a period text with a current song lyric or speech addressing the same issue, focusing on genre and language choices.

• 7.T.PM.1

  Periods & Movements Demonstrate knowledge of dominant themes, genres, and verbal styles of literature from a particular time period.

• 9.T.PM.1

  The 9th Grade version of this standard.

• 11.T.PM.1

  The 11th Grade version of this standard.

• 12.T.PM.1

  The 12th Grade version of this standard.