Georgia 9.P.AC.2.a
The Standard
Integrate literary, expository, and opinion (grades K-5) or rhetorical (grades 6-12) elements to appeal to target audiences and achieve specific purposes. (I/C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Author’s Craft
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose and combine techniques such as imagery, anecdotes, facts, explanations, counterclaims, and calls to action. They match those choices to particular readers and a clear goal.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can shape the same message differently for classmates, families, or school leaders. They select fitting techniques, combine them smoothly, and explain how each choice supports the intended response.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat literary, expository, and rhetorical writing as separate forms that cannot be combined. They may think rhetoric means only rhetorical questions, or change vocabulary without considering readers’ needs and expectations.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Write a 120-word appeal asking ninth graders to reduce cafeteria waste, using an anecdote, one fact, and a call to action.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a bland school announcement and cards labeled anecdote, statistic, imagery, counterclaim, and call to action, then revise for ninth graders.
Ask students to compare two recycling appeals and mark which craft choices would work best for students, parents, or the principal.
Run an audience switch game where students draw an audience card and rewrite the same claim using three fitting techniques.
Have students create a club recruitment post that includes a brief story, useful details, and a direct call to action.
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