Georgia 9.T.C.2.c
The Standard
Determine the reasons for changing attitudes around a topic and how that affects text. (I)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Context
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how attitudes toward a topic changed over time. They identify reasons for the shift, then explain how it shaped a text’s language, claims, tone, or audience response.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student uses text details and reliable context clues to identify why attitudes shifted. The student then explains a specific effect on the author’s tone, claims, word choice, purpose, or audience.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may substitute their own opinion for evidence about attitudes in a particular time or community. They may name a historical event without explaining how it changed the text’s tone, claims, language, or audience response.
How to Assess It
- Give students two brief excerpts on the same topic from different decades and a three-event timeline. Ask them to name one reason attitudes changed and explain one effect on the later text, using evidence.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Post two dated editorials on the same issue; students add sticky notes marking changed attitudes, likely causes, and effects on wording.
Ask students to write: Why did attitudes shift, and which sentence best shows that shift shaping the author’s tone or claim?
Play Context Cause Match with cards naming attitude shifts, historical events, and text effects; teams build and defend accurate three-card sets.
Compare school dress-code messages from two decades, then connect changes in audience expectations to differences in rules, reasons, and tone.
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