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title: "9.T.T.2: Expository Techniques Overview (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 9.T.T.2: Expository Techniques Overview

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

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 9, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-9.md

## Expectations

- **9.T.T.2.a**: Analyze and evaluate the use and effect of expository techniques and organizational patterns. (I)
- **9.T.T.2.b**: Analyze texts with conflicting information or opposing viewpoints and determine where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretations. (I)
- **9.T.T.2.c**: This progression ends in 5th grade.
- **9.T.T.2.d**: Apply expository techniques to develop a cohesive text, organized in a way that clarifies the relationship between ideas, includes multiple and varied types of information, and uses the appropriate tone to address a target audience and specific purpose. (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

## The same standard across grades

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

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