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title: "10.T.C.2: Author Perspective and Influence (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 10.T.C.2: Author Perspective and Influence

Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 10, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-10.md

## Expectations

- **10.T.C.2.a**: *Compare and contrast varying perspectives on a particular topic found across a variety of texts, analyzing how texts establish and develop perspective to shape perceptions or beliefs*. (I)
- **10.T.C.2.b**: Identify overtly commercial influences on texts in audiovisual and digital modes and platforms. (I)
- **10.T.C.2.c**: Explain how multiple contexts (including historical and disciplinary) influence perspectives across time and the associated implications on text creation. (I)
- **10.T.C.2.d**: *Synthesize information from a variety of credible sources used to research the answers to questions on academic and individual topics of interest*. (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- Literature II (EOC). Texts — Constructing Texts. Context Students investigate the relationships between authors, purposes, and audiences of texts, and analyze the influence of contextual factors. (about 10% of the test; 6 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

## What mastery looks like

Georgia's Achievement Level Descriptors. The levels are cumulative: each includes the ones before it. Proficient is on grade level.

- **Beginning**: Identify varying perspectives on a particular topic found across multiple texts. Identify contexts (including historical and disciplinary) in text(s).
- **Developing**: Compare and contrast varying perspectives on a particular topic found across multiple texts, explaining how the text(s) establish or develop a different perspective to shape beliefs. Identify overtly commercial influences on texts. Describe how the provided context influences perspectives and/or the associated implications of text creation. Identify a variety of credible sources to research the answer(s) to question(s) on a provided topic.
- **Proficient**: Compare and contrast varying perspectives on a particular topic found across a variety of texts, analyzing how texts establish and develop perspectives to shape perceptions or beliefs. Identify overtly commercial influences on texts in audiovisual and digital modes and platforms. Explain how multiple contexts (including historical and disciplinary) influence perspectives across time and the associated implications of text creation. Synthesize information from a variety of credible sources used to research the answer to a question on a provided research topic.
- **Distinguished**: Explain how multiple contexts (including historical and disciplinary) influence perspectives across time and the associated implications of text creation and support explanation with textual evidence.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Investigate the relationships between authors and speakers in texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.T.C.2.md
- Grade 1, 1.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Investigate the relationships between authors and speakers in texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.C.2.md
- Grade 2, 2.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Investigate the relationships between authors and speakers in texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.C.2.md
- Grade 3, 3.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.T.C.2.md
- Grade 4, 4.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.T.C.2.md
- Grade 5, 5.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.C.2.md
- Grade 6, 6.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Analyze how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.C.2.md
- Grade 7, 7.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Analyze how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.C.2.md
- Grade 8, 8.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Analyze how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.T.C.2.md
- Grade 9, 9.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.T.C.2.md
- **Grade 10, 10.T.C.2 (this standard)**: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation.
- Grade 11, 11.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.T.C.2.md
- Grade 12, 12.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.T.C.2.md

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.