Stage 1 English - Semester 1 - Task A - Text Production
Personal Recount
Key Stats:
DRAFT DUE:
3pm Friday Week 2 (6th February) FINAL VERSION DUE: 3pm Friday Week 3 (13th February) LENGTH: 800 words maximum ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: KU2, KU3, C1, C2 and Ap3 WEIGHTING: 15% |
WHAT IS A PERSONAL RECOUNT?
Retelling an activity that the writer has been personally involved in Specifically for this assignment: PURPOSE: To inform and entertain by retelling a specific past event or experience TARGET AUDIENCE: Teachers and peers who may or may not know you BROAD TOPIC: Surviving the Middle Years (something that happened to you in or out of school from Years 7 to 10) |
HAND-OUTS:
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Skill Development:
Language Techniques & Conventions:
Basic
More Advanced Adding detail - Show, don't tell!
Intriguing title:
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SACE Formatting Basics
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Peer Critique
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Sources (if not hyperlinked):
DECD Literacy & Numeracy Unit, 'Recount writing', 2012, accessed Jan. 2014, http://www.decd.sa.gov.au/literacy/files/links/Recount_Writing_June_2102.pdf
Hipwell, How to Write What You Want to Say, Boolarong Press, 2012.
Martin, Martin's Writers Guide, Era Publications, 5th edn, 2011, pp. 252-259.
Townsend, Quill & Oostenbroek, Text Types: A writing guide for students, Farr Books, 2006, pp. 41-42.
Hipwell, How to Write What You Want to Say, Boolarong Press, 2012.
Martin, Martin's Writers Guide, Era Publications, 5th edn, 2011, pp. 252-259.
Townsend, Quill & Oostenbroek, Text Types: A writing guide for students, Farr Books, 2006, pp. 41-42.