Georgia 11.T.T.1.e
The Standard
Effectively apply a variety of narrative techniques to develop complex character(s) who change, use setting to create mood, develop an idea or theme across the text using metaphors and symbolism, achieve specific purposes, engage audiences, and enhance writing. (C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Techniques
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write narratives that reveal character change through conflict, action, dialogue, and reflection. They use setting, metaphor, and symbolism to shape mood, develop meaning, and guide an audience’s response.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A character’s change grows from believable conflict and choices rather than being announced. Setting details create a clear mood. A recurring metaphor or symbol develops the main idea and supports the intended audience response.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often name emotions instead of revealing them through actions, dialogue, and choices. They may insert a symbol once without developing its meaning. They also confuse a changed situation with genuine character growth.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to write a 200-word scene in which a choice shows character change, setting creates tension, and one object carries symbolic meaning. Students underline each technique and label its intended effect.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups character, setting, mood, and symbol cards, then have them arrange the cards and draft a scene connecting all four.
Ask students to explain how changing one setting detail could alter a character’s choice, the mood, and the scene’s meaning.
Run a revision relay where teams improve a flat scene by adding action, dialogue, setting details, metaphor, and a recurring symbol.
Have students turn a local news event into a first-person narrative that uses setting and symbolism to shape the reader’s response.
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