Georgia 11.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
11.T.T.3 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.
- 11.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...
- 11.T.T.3.b
Explain and analyze the impact of logical fallacies in a variety of texts. (I)
- 11.T.T.3.c
Apply argumentative techniques strategically to enhance writing and engage audiences. (C)
- 11.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 examine how writers use claims, evidence, reasoning, tone, and rhetorical appeals to persuade. They select and use techniques that fit a clear audience and purpose.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can judge whether evidence, reasoning, word choice, and rhetorical appeals work for a particular audience and purpose. They can revise an argument to make its appeal more effective without weakening its logic.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat strong opinions as strong arguments or rely on emotion without evidence. They may name a technique but cannot explain how it shapes a specific audience’s response.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short claim and a named audience. Ask them to write three persuasive sentences using one technique, then explain why it fits that audience.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a weak advertisement to cut apart, label its claim, evidence, and appeals, then rebuild it for a specific audience.
Ask students to compare two arguments on the same issue and write which one would persuade teenagers more effectively and why.
Play technique match, where teams pair argument excerpts with techniques and earn a point only after explaining each technique’s effect.
Have students rewrite a school policy message for students, families, and staff, changing evidence, tone, and appeals for each audience.
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