4AF: Personal Recount Recap

Personal Recounts
4AF: 3 Aug

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What are personal recounts?

Personal Recounts

We use Personal Recounts to retell our experiences and memories. They can be spoken or written. They are personal, because the speaker or writer of a Personal Recount lived and experienced the events in them.

​Orientation
- 5W1H

Order of events in chronological order

Comment
- Reflection

​Organisation of Personal Recounts

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What are the language features required in a personal recount?

• Postmodifiers

• Connectors of contrast

• Conjunctive adverbs

• Direct speech

• Relative clauses as postmodifiers

• Similes and metaphors

• Personification

• Varied sentence structure and sentence lengths

• First person pronouns

• Simple past tense, past progressive, past perfect

• Vivid action and mental verbs

• Adjectives

• Connectors to show chronological order

• Adverbials of time

Language Features

Write about a time when you did something to impress someone which you later regretted.

There are 2 parts to this question. What are the 2 parts?

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Brainstorm, and write down whatever ideas t. Make sure you include both parts in your ideas. Write as many ideas as you want in your response.

Write about a time when you did something to impress someone which you later regretted.

Assign each person a name:

Bedok, South, Secondary, or School

• School = facilitator

• Bedok = scribe

• Secondary = time keeper

• South = researcher
  
  

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