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 * ===== ** Unit Topic: **Colonial Australia ===== |||| ===== ** Curriculum Link: **English, HSIE ===== |||| ===== ** Stage: **Two, Year Four ===== ||
 * ===== ** Lesson Number: **Two ===== |||| ===== ** Lesson Topic: **Revisiting Literary Recounts ===== |||| ===== ** Timing: **1 hour ===== ||
 * ===== ** Lesson Outcomes: ** =====

· // Discusses some of the different roles of children during the colonisation period. //
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 * ===== ** Resources: ** =====

*Each students English/Writing book
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This lesson is to revise the purpose and structure of a literary recount. It also addresses some of the key grammatical features that are important when constructing a literary recount. Students will then be provided with a scaffold to construct their own recount based on a personal event. This prepares students for later in the unit when they are required to collaboratively construct a literary recount based on a fictional character. ===== ||
 * ===== ** Lesson Outline ** ===== || ===== ===== ||
 * ===== __Introduction:__ (10 mins) =====

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1. Project page 37 onto the interactive whiteboard. Read through page 37-40 of the book. Discuss with students; // What kind of texts are these? What is the purpose of these texts? // // Are they written in past or present tense? How can you tell? // =====

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2. Students identify a literary recount and some of its features.
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 * ===== __Body:__ (40 mins) =====

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1. Turn back to the ‘My name is Sarah’ text (see Appendix 1). Highlight some of the key features of the text including the structure (Orientation, Record of Events, and Reorientation). Explain the purpose of each of these; =====

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2. Move onto the next text, ‘My Story’ (see Appendix 1). Read through text again. Ask students // Can you identify the Orientation, Record of Events and Reorientation? What makes this literary recount more informative than the last one? // =====

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3. Highlight key grammatical features in the text including use of particular nouns to refer to people, places and things, the use adjectives to build descriptions and the use of action verbs (usually past tense) to indicate activities, behaviours or thoughts. Ask// Can you identify any interesting adjectives? What effect does using direct speech have? What words tell you that the day is progressing? Can you identify any action verbs? How could this recount be improved? // =====

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4. Choose a recent event that all students are able to write a literary recount about (school carnival, fete, what happened on the weekend etc). Brainstorm some ideas on the board. Try and limit it to a one day activity so students are forced to concentrate on descriptions. =====

7. Once students have filled in their outline, ask them to write up their recount in their English books.
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5. Students write a literary recount in their English books.
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 * ===== __Conclusion:__ (10 mins) =====

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2. Once they have done that go around the room and ask each pair to briefly explain what their partners recount is about, and to comment on a couple of things they liked about it (good use of adjectives, entertaining read etc) =====

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3. Explain to students that in the multimodal task (that was mentioned last lesson), students will be required to write a literary recount. Instead of writing it about themselves however, they will be writing from the perspective of a character living during the colonial era. Reflect again on the ‘My Story’ text, and discuss a few of the activities this character undertook. Ask them to start thinking about and briefly discuss other activities/jobs that children living during that period would have done and discuss some of these. ===== || ===== =====

4. Students discuss activities undertaken by children during the colonial period.
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 * ===== ** Evaluation ** =====

· Which aspects of the lesson were successful? Which aspects needed improvement?
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__References –__

Alexander, G. (2000). // My Story – Surviving Sydney Cove //. Linfield: Scholastic Australia Pty Limited.

Droga, L., & Humphrey, S. (2003). // Grammar and Meaning – An Introduction for Primary Teachers //. Berry: Target Texts.

RM Primary Resources (2010). English: Text Level: Non-Fiction: Recount Texts. Retrieved September 29, 2010 from []

Wheatley, N. & Rawlins, D. (1987). // My Place //. Melbourne: Collins Dove.