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title: "8.T.T.3: Argumentative Techniques Overview (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 8.T.T.3: Argumentative Techniques Overview

Analyze and apply argumentative techniques.

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

## Expectations

- **8.T.T.3.a**: Analyze the development of argumentative techniques used to present and design content, including an author’s claim, supporting relevant and logical evidence, an identified counterclaim, a rebuttal, and a conclusion that logically follows the argument. (I)
- **8.T.T.3.b**: This progression begins in 9th grade.
- **8.T.T.3.c**: Apply argumentative techniques (e.g., author’s claim, supporting relevant and logical evidence, an identified counterclaim, a rebuttal, and a conclusion) to enhance writing and engage audiences. (C)
- **8.T.T.3.d**: This progression begins in 9th grade.

## 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)
- English Language Arts Grade 8 (EOG). Texts — Interpreting Texts. Techniques Students analyze and apply various techniques to comprehend and shape meaning. (about 27% of the test; 16 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**: Recognize an author’s claim, supporting relevant and logical evidence, an identified counterclaim, or a conclusion that logically follows the argument. Apply an argumentative technique to develop an introduction or a logical conclusion.
- **Developing**: Recognize the argumentative technique the author uses to develop a provided claim. Recognize a rebuttal to an identified counterclaim. When provided an argumentative technique (e.g., claim, counterclaim, reason), apply an additional technique (e.g., counterclaim, relevant and logical evidence) to enhance writing.
- **Proficient**: Analyze the development of argumentative techniques used to present and design content, including an author’s claim, supporting relevant and logical evidence, an identified counterclaim, a rebuttal, and/or a conclusion that logically follows the argument. Apply more than one argumentative technique (e.g., author’s claim, supporting relevant and logical evidence, an identified counterclaim, a rebuttal, and a conclusion) to enhance writing and engage audiences
- **Distinguished**: Apply argumentative techniques throughout a text to enhance writing and engage audiences

## The same standard across grades

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

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