Georgia 11.L.GC.2.c
The Standard
Maintain consistent use of active or passive voice throughout a text, as determined by the purpose, audience, and discipline. (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 active or passive voice to match a text’s purpose, readers, and field. They maintain that choice across a passage and shift only for a clear reason.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students keep voice consistent unless a purposeful shift improves meaning. They select active voice for directness and passive voice when the action or result deserves emphasis.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think passive voice is always wrong or that active voice fits every context. They may also shift voice without noticing, creating unclear actors or uneven emphasis.
How to Assess It
- Give students a mixed-voice paragraph and ask them to revise it for a lab report or opinion column. Require one sentence explaining their choice.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips from a mixed-voice paragraph, then have them revise and arrange the sentences for a clear, consistent purpose.
Ask students which voice better fits a news report, lab report, or campaign speech, and have them defend one choice with evidence.
Play Voice Switch: teams rewrite active sentences as passive and passive sentences as active while keeping the original meaning.
Compare instructions, scientific reports, and opinion columns, then mark where each writer emphasizes the actor, action, or result.
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