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Historical Recounts

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Structure

Background

Sets the time and context - who? where? when? what?

Record of events

Tells the audience 'what happened?'

Uses paragraphs to record events in chronological order

Must indicate or imply time period

May include causes and consequences of events

Evaluation

Evaluates or sums up the significance of the events

Activity 1

Historical Recount

Timeline activity:

'Francis Drake and the Voyage of the Golden Hind'

Arrange the paragraphs in chronological order

along the timeline

Background

Record of events

Evaluation

Historical recounts are the retelling of factual events that have happened in the past. They focus on significant events that involve a larger spectrum of people rather than just one person.

The social purpose: is to document and explain a series of events or period in history, and to evaluate the significance of the events.

Timeline activity

Title:

Background

2nd Event

4th Event

1st Event

Evaluation

3rd Event

Record of events

Historical Recounts

The National Literacy Strategy (2001) Year 5 Booster Units: Unit 3 Historical Recount. Retrieved from: http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/4930/3/nls_y5booster_hisrecount.pdf

References

Language features

By Emma, Kate and Michaela

  • Barwick, J. (2008) Language Conventions: Year 5. Teaching Solutions: Albert Park, Australia.
  • Derewianka, B. (2012) A new grammar companion for teachers. PETAA: Newtown, NSW, Australia.
  • First Steps Literacy. (2013) Writing Resource Book. Department of Education: WA, Australia. Retrieved from: http://www.det.wa.edu.au/stepsresources/detcms/education/stepsresources/first-steps-literacy/writing-resource-book.en?oid=com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.FileStorageItem-id-13760408
  • Emmit, M., Zbaracki, M., Komesaroff, l., & Pollock, J. (2010) 5th Edition. Language and Learning: An Introduction for Teaching. Oxford University Press: Victoria, Australia.
  • Humphrey, S., Droga, L., & Feez. S. (2012) Grammar and Meaning. PETAA: Newtown, NSW, Australia.
  • The National Literacy Strategy (2001) Year 5 Booster Units: Unit 3 Historical Recount. Retrieved from: http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/4930/3/nls_y5booster_hisrecount.pdf
  • University of Saskatchewan (2011) Reference. Curtis & Cam: Saskatchewan, Canada. Retrieved from: http://linguistics.usask.ca/Ling347/webp/cohesion2/reference.html
  • University of Sydney(2012) Using reference words. Retrieved from: http://writesite.elearn.usyd.edu.au/m3/m3u5/m3u5s5/m3u5s5_1.htm
  • Wing Jan, L. (2009) 3rd Edition. Write Ways: Modelling Writing Forms. Oxford University Press: Victoria, Australia.

Language features include:

  • Third person - writer recounts out of their direct experience
  • Past tense – actions made in the past (-ed is added to most verbs)
  • Common nouns - people, places and things.
  • Proper nouns - specific people, places, times and events.
  • Action verbs - doing words (words to describe actions)
  • Relating verbs - words that link two pieces of information.
  • Prepositions - locators in time and space
  • Connectives - sequencing and linking words
  • References - referring words

Child example

What are the strengths and weaknesses of this child's historical recount?

Consider what you have learnt today:

  • Purpose
  • Structure
  • Language Features

Refer to your posters for guidance

Reference

Creates cohesion in texts.

References are words that refer to other words or concepts that have already appeared or will appear in the text.

May be used to avoid unnecessary repetition in the text.

Activity 2

Categories

Activity 2

Types of references

Reference Activity: 'The Eureka Stockade'

Your task is to fill in the blanks with the missing 'reference' words.

Exophoric: references that point outwards from the text

Endophoric: references that point in towards the text.

  • Anaphoric (links back to something already introduced)
  • Cataphoric (Refers forward in the text to something that has not yet been introduced)
  • Personal (using personal & possessive pronouns)

Eg, it, he, her, they, his, theirs

  • Demonstrative (points at specific things being referred to)

Eg, there, these, here, this

  • Comparative (relation of contrast between referring words)

Eg, other, same, similarly, more, less

  • Definite article

Eg, the

  • Text reference

Eg, this and these

Barwick, J. (2008) Language Conventions: Year 5. Teaching Solutions: Albert Park, Australia