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title: "8.T.C.2: Author Perspective and Influence (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 8.T.C.2: Author Perspective and Influence

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

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 8, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-8.md

## Expectations

- **8.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)
- **8.T.C.2.b**: Identify an author’s bias and determine how that bias impacts text credibility. (I)
- **8.T.C.2.c**: *Analyze the impact of background information and context (e.g., geography, location, era, historical happenings) on text development*. (I)
- **8.T.C.2.d**: Use a variety of credible sources to research the answers to questions on academic and individual topics of interest. (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- English Language Arts Grade 8 (EOG). Texts — Constructing Texts. Context Students recognize influences on texts and analyze how they shape meaning. (about 13% of the test; 8 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**: Compare varying perspectives on a particular topic found across multiple texts. Identify the background information and context presented in the text (e.g., geography, location, era, historical happenings).
- **Developing**: 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 an author’s bias. Explain the impact of the provided background information or context on text development. 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 multiple texts, analyzing how text(s) establish and develop perspectives to shape perceptions or beliefs. Identify an author’s bias and determine how bias impacts text credibility. Analyze the impact of background information and context (e.g., geography, location, era, historical happenings) on text development. Use a variety of credible sources to research the answers to questions on a provided research topic.
- **Distinguished**: Identify an author’s bias, determine how bias impacts text credibility, and provide textual evidence to support the impact. Analyze how background information in one text (e.g., geography, location, era, historical happenings) impacts the audience’s understanding of another text.

## 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 (this standard)**: **Authors & Speakers** Analyze how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation.
- 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: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.T.C.2.md
- 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.