Literary+Recounts

See also Story telling

Travel to new country migration
 * Recount / biography vocabulary **

A recount is a text that explains, in correct time order, what happened in the past. It usually has:
 * What is a recount? **


 * 1) An orientation (who, when, where, what?)
 * 2) A series of events in time order.
 * 3) A re-orientation.

Recount writing scaffold

There are three types of recounts :
 * What are the types of recounts? **
 * a personal recount ( a simple recount of what you did) ,
 * a factual recount (like a newspaper report)See here for examples.
 * a literary recount ( a recount written like a story)

This week you are going to write a literary recount. First let's do a fun Tale lesson about a close encounter with an alien. ("eerie" means scary and unusual ) eerie Encounter

Let's take it one step at a time. 1. Interview a friend. 2. Use the model of Seong Hyuk and write a **biography** of their life:
 * How do I write a literary recount? **

3. Read Ling's life story..

4. Now use this sheet to write your own autobiography.

5. Choose one time that **reflects and exemplifies** your experience in Australia. 6. Re-draft: How could you make this story more interesting for your readers? Study this sheet and then return to your story and improve it with a second draft.



Interview a family member and ask them to recount their journey to Australia. Write their story.


 * Grammar Focus: **



Having a hard time with direct speech? Do this animated Tale lesson: Putting Speech Marks in their place

Choose one day or event in any of the above writing samples. Recount the event in a story-like (literary) way. Include direct and indirect quotes.