Georgia 9.P.EICC.2
Georgia Standard (Expectation Cluster)
Engagement & Intention Engage in written or spoken dialogue as author and audience for a variety of tasks and purposes, making intentional connections within, between, and beyond texts.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P)
Cluster contents
Expectations in This Standard
9.P.EICC.2 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.
- 9.P.EICC.2.a
Share real or imagined experiences by interpreting and constructing texts that tell or include stories. (I/C)
- 9.P.EICC.2.b
Make use of texts to build knowledge, develop skills, make informed decisions, and share information and ideas. (I/C)
- 9.P.EICC.2.c
Explain and learn concepts and processes by interpreting and constructing texts. (I/C)
- 9.P.EICC.2.d
Interpret and construct texts to aid the analysis and evaluation of texts and ideas. (I/C)
- 9.P.EICC.2.e
Consume and produce texts in order to solve problems or influence decisions. (I/C)
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain ideas in writing and conversation, then respond to what others actually said or wrote. They connect details within one text, across texts, and to relevant experiences or events for a clear purpose.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student states a clear idea and supports it with relevant details. The student responds directly to others and explains useful links among ideas, texts, experiences, or events.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mention another text or personal experience without explaining how it supports their point. They may treat dialogue as taking turns rather than listening, paraphrasing, questioning, and building on ideas.
How to Assess It
- Give students two short passages on school phone rules. Ask them to state a claim, use one detail from each passage, explain the connection, and write a response to a classmate.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups quotation cards from two texts; students sort them into linked pairs and label each link as agreement, contrast, or cause.
Ask: Which connection changes your understanding most, and why? Students write a claim, then discuss it using details from both texts.
Play Response Ladder: each speaker must paraphrase the previous point, add evidence, and connect it to another text or experience.
Compare a school policy with a local news article, then draft a public comment that addresses both sources for a school board audience.
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