10.T.T.1Narrative Techniques

Expectations

• 10.T.T.1.a

  Evaluate how narrative techniques (including archetypes, multiple perspectives, plot structure, and symbolism) interact, using textual evidence. (I)

• 10.T.T.1.b

  Evaluate and critique how plot structures, conflict, narrative devices, word choice, and other craft techniques are impacted by an author’s purpose. (I)

• 10.T.T.1.c

  Analyze and evaluate how a text’s theme has social relevance and is developed across a text, comparing passages within and across texts, providing both reasoning and supportive textual evidence. (I)

• 10.T.T.1.d

  Analyze how literary works draw on themes, event patterns, or character types from different time periods. (I)

• 10.T.T.1.e

  Effectively apply a variety of narrative techniques to develop complex character(s) who change, use setting to create mood, develop an idea or theme across the text using metaphors, achieve specific purposes, engage audiences, and enhance writing. (C)

Georgia Milestones coverage

• Literature II (EOC) · Texts — Constructing Texts

  Techniques Students evaluate and apply various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning.

  about 20% of the test · 12 points These points are shared with other standards, so count them once and never add them up per standard.

• Literature II (EOC) · Texts — Interpreting Texts

  Techniques Students evaluate and apply various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning.

  about 23% of the test · 14 points These points are shared with other standards, so count them 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 narrative technique(s) (including archetypes, multiple perspectives, story structure, and/or symbolism) within a text. Identify the author’s use of plot structure, conflict, narrative devices and/or word structure within the text. Identify a text’s theme and describe how it is developed across a text. Provide supportive textual evidence for theme(s) in text(s). Identify within a literary work the theme, event pattern, or character type that is drawn from a different time period. When provided two literary texts from different time periods, identify shared theme(s), event pattern(s), or character type(s). Apply a narrative technique that establishes mood through setting to achieve a specific purpose, engage an audience, and enhance writing.

Developing

Analyze the author’s use of a provided narrative technique (e.g., archetype, perspective, story structure, symbolism) in a text. Discuss how plot structures, conflict, narrative devices, word choice, and other craft techniques are impacted by an author’s purpose. Analyze how a text’s theme has social relevance and is developed across a text. Analyze how a theme is developed across a text and provide supportive textual evidence. Explain how literary works draw on a provided theme, event pattern, or character type from different time periods. Apply narrative technique(s) to develop a complex character who changes to achieve a specific purpose, engage an audience, and enhance writing.

Proficient

Evaluate how narrative techniques (e.g., archetypes, multiple perspectives, story structure, and symbolism) interact, using textual evidence. Evaluate how plot structures, conflict, narrative devices, word choice, and other craft techniques are impacted by an author’s purpose. Analyze and evaluate how the social relevance of a text’s theme is developed, providing both reasoning and supportive textual evidence. Analyze how literary works draw on theme(s), event pattern(s), or character types from different time periods. Apply narrative techniques (e.g., establish mood through setting, develop complex characters who change, use metaphors) to develop an idea or theme that achieves a specific purpose, engages an audience, and enhances writing.

Distinguished

Analyze how narrative technique(s) are used in conjunction with other techniques (e.g., argumentative, expository) to develop ideas. Analyze and evaluate how a common theme developed across two texts has social relevance, providing both reasoning and supportive textual evidence. Apply narrative techniques in conjunction with other techniques (e.g., argumentative, expository) to engage the audience, achieve a specific purpose, and enhance writing.

The same standard across grades

1. Kindergarten · K.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Identify and use narrative techniques to shape understanding.

2. Grade 1 · 1.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Identify and use narrative techniques to shape understanding.

3. Grade 2 · 2.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Identify and use narrative techniques to shape understanding.

4. Grade 3 · 3.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Explain, analyze, and use narrative techniques to shape understandings.

5. Grade 4 · 4.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Explain, analyze, and use narrative techniques to shape understandings.

6. Grade 5 · 5.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Explain, analyze, and use narrative techniques to shape understandings.

7. Grade 6 · 6.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Analyze and apply narrative techniques.

8. Grade 7 · 7.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Analyze and apply narrative techniques.

9. Grade 8 · 8.T.T.1

   Narrative Techniques Analyze and apply narrative techniques.

10. Grade 9 · 9.T.T.1

    Narrative Techniques Evaluate and apply narrative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes.

11. Grade 10 · 10.T.T.1 (this standard)

    Narrative Techniques Evaluate and apply narrative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes.

12. Grade 11 · 11.T.T.1

    Narrative Techniques Evaluate and apply narrative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes.

13. Grade 12 · 12.T.T.1

    Narrative Techniques Evaluate and apply narrative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes.