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title: "8.T.T.1: Narrative Techniques Overview (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 8.T.T.1: Narrative Techniques Overview

Analyze and apply narrative techniques.

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

## Expectations

- **8.T.T.1.a**: *Analyze how narrative techniques are used across the text to develop plot, characters, and setting*. (I)
- **8.T.T.1.b**: Analyze how plot structures, conflict, and narrative devices (e.g., flashback, foreshadowing) work together to create an intended effect (e.g., suspense, tension, humor) on the audience. (I)
- **8.T.T.1.c**: Analyze how authors convey and reveal themes through characters, events, and plot structure. (I)
- **8.T.T.1.d**: Analyze how a modern literary work draws on themes, event patterns, or character types from different time periods. (I)
- **8.T.T.1.e**: Apply narrative techniques to enhance writing, engage audiences, and achieve specific purposes. (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- English Language Arts Grade 8 (EOG). Texts — Constructing Texts. Techniques Students analyze and apply various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning. (about 17% of the test; 10 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 a narrative technique that is used (e.g., dialogue, description, foreshadowing) to develop plot, character(s), or setting. Identify plot structure(s), conflict, or narrative device(s) (e.g., flashback, foreshadowing) within a text. Identify the theme(s) in a text. Identify themes or character types from different time periods in a modern literary work. Apply a narrative technique to develop plot, characterization, or setting.
- **Developing**: Describe how a narrative technique within a section of text develops the plot, character(s), or setting. Determine specific detail(s) within the text that convey information about plot, characters, and/or setting. Analyze how plot structure(s), conflict, or narrative device(s) (e.g., flashback, foreshadowing) create an intended effect (e.g., suspense, tension, humor) on the audience. Describe how an author reveals theme(s) through characters, events, and/or other story elements. Explain how a modern literary work draws on a provided theme, event pattern, and/or character type from different time periods. Apply one of the following narrative techniques to achieve a specific purpose: Clearly sequence plot when given part of the sequence. Use one instance of dialogue to achieve a specific purpose. Use a descriptive detail to achieve a specific purpose.
- **Proficient**: Analyze the development of the narrative techniques (e.g., description, foreshadowing, dialogue) used throughout a text to develop plot, characters, and setting. Analyze how plot structures, conflict, and narrative devices (e.g., flashback, foreshadowing) work together to create an intended effect (e.g., suspense, tension, humor) on the audience. Analyze how authors convey and reveal themes through characters, events, and other story elements. Analyze how a modern literary work draws on themes, event patterns, and/or character types from different time periods. Apply multiple narrative techniques to enhance writing, engage audiences, and achieve specific purposes: Clearly sequence plot, including the intro, climax, conflict/resolution, and conclusion. Apply dialogue to achieve specific purpose(s). Use descriptive details to achieve specific purpose(s).
- **Distinguished**: Analyze how narrative technique(s) are used to develop ideas within other text genres (e.g., argumentative, expository). Apply narrative techniques to engage the audience and achieve a specific purpose in other text genres (e.g., argumentative, expository).

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Identify and use narrative techniques to shape understanding. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.T.T.1.md
- Grade 1, 1.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Identify and use narrative techniques to shape understanding. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.T.1.md
- Grade 2, 2.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Identify and use narrative techniques to shape understanding. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.T.1.md
- Grade 3, 3.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Explain, analyze, and use narrative techniques to shape understandings. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.T.T.1.md
- Grade 4, 4.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Explain, analyze, and use narrative techniques to shape understandings. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.T.T.1.md
- Grade 5, 5.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Explain, analyze, and use narrative techniques to shape understandings. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.T.1.md
- Grade 6, 6.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Analyze and apply narrative techniques. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.T.1.md
- Grade 7, 7.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Analyze and apply narrative techniques. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.T.1.md
- **Grade 8, 8.T.T.1 (this standard)**: **Narrative Techniques** Analyze and apply narrative techniques.
- Grade 9, 9.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Evaluate and apply narrative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.T.T.1.md
- Grade 10, 10.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Evaluate and apply narrative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.T.T.1.md
- Grade 11, 11.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Evaluate and apply narrative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.T.T.1.md
- Grade 12, 12.T.T.1: **Narrative Techniques** Evaluate and apply narrative techniques to enhance text’s appeal to audiences or achieve specific purposes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.T.T.1.md

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