Georgia 9.T.T.3.c
The Standard
Apply argumentative techniques strategically to enhance writing and engage audiences. (C)
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 select and use argumentative moves that fit a particular audience and purpose. They explain how each move strengthens the claim, builds credibility, or keeps readers engaged.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students choose techniques that fit the claim, audience, and purpose. They blend evidence, reasoning, word choice, repetition, rhetorical questions, or appeals without weakening accuracy or credibility.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may stack facts without explaining how they support the claim. They may treat emotional language, repetition, or rhetorical questions as decorations rather than choices for a specific audience and purpose.
How to Assess It
- Give students a plain claim about school start times. Ask them to revise it into a three-sentence argument using one named technique, then explain its intended effect.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups claim, evidence, and technique cards, then have them arrange a short argument and justify each choice.
Compare two versions of the same argument and write which better persuades ninth graders, citing one specific technique.
Play Technique Swap, where students revise one claim using a different assigned technique each round and classmates identify the intended effect.
Analyze a local advertisement or public service post, then revise its argument for teenagers, parents, or school leaders.
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