Georgia 12.T.T.1.b
The Standard
Compare and evaluate how multiple authors use plot structures, conflict, narrative devices, word choice, and other craft techniques to impact audiences and create purpose. (I)
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 identify specific craft choices in two or more texts. They explain how those choices shape reader response and serve each author's purpose, then judge which choices work best.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A proficient student selects precise evidence from each text and connects structure, conflict, narration, or diction to a specific audience effect. The student makes a defensible judgment based on each author's purpose, not personal preference.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often retell events instead of analyzing craft choices. They may name a device without explaining its effect on readers. They may judge a text by personal preference rather than evidence and purpose.
How to Assess It
- Give students two 150-word excerpts that present a similar conflict. Prompt: Which excerpt produces its intended audience response more effectively, and how does one craft choice from each support your judgment?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed excerpts and colored highlighters to mark conflict, structure, narration, and diction, then label each choice's audience effect.
Discuss: Which author controls reader sympathy more effectively, and what two craft choices create that result?
Run a card sort where teams match excerpts with technique, audience effect, and purpose cards, then defend one disputed match.
Compare two campaign speeches on one issue and explain how word choice and narrative framing aim at different voter reactions.
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