What is Recount

November 24, 2013

I had a discourse approach in reading class.
I learned about a recount.
The teacher taught us to know the meaning, purpose, types, text organisation, and language features of a recount.
A recount is the unfolding of a sequence of events overtime. It tells about the past experience (to tell what happened).
Then the teacher told us to look the examples of recount. 
We analysed the text organisations and the language features.
In the exercise 2, we read the text and answered the questions.
The title of this text is "My Grandpa's Funeral in Toraja".
It's told about the funeral ceremony of ethnic group indigenous in Indonesia, that the writer has been personally involved in this ceremony.
When I read, I understood it, Although I didn't know some vocabularies.
But I guessed from context.