Georgia 10.T.T.3
Georgia Standard (Expectation Cluster)
Argumentative Techniques Evaluate and apply argumentative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T)
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Expectations in This Standard
10.T.T.3 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.
- 10.T.T.3.a
Read, discuss, evaluate, and critique a variety of texts, considering the argumentative techniques used to present and design content and their associated impli...
- 10.T.T.3.b
Analyze the use of rhetorical appeals; identify fallacies in a text. (I)
- 10.T.T.3.c
Apply argumentative techniques strategically to enhance writing and engage audiences. (C)
- 10.T.T.3.d
Integrate multiple rhetorical devices or appeals strategically. (C)
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify argumentative choices such as evidence, emotional appeals, credibility, reasoning, and counterclaims. They judge how well each choice fits an audience and purpose, then apply those choices in their own writing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can explain why a technique works, or fails, for a named audience and purpose. They can revise an argument by choosing evidence, appeals, and counterclaims that improve its impact.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think naming ethos, pathos, or logos is enough without explaining its effect. They may also assume more facts always strengthen an argument or ignore how audience values shape persuasive choices.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Convince the principal to extend lunch by ten minutes. Write three sentences, underline one argumentative technique, and explain why it suits that audience.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups claim, evidence, audience, and appeal cards, then have them build and defend the strongest combination.
Ask students to explain which technique would best persuade a skeptical school board and why another choice might fail.
Run an argument makeover game where pairs revise weak claims using stronger evidence, audience appeals, or counterclaims.
Compare two advertisements for the same product and identify how each uses different techniques to target its audience.
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