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Recount thinking process
The document provides guidance on writing a recount about attending a fireworks show. It discusses including details about who attended, where and when the event took place. It emphasizes building up to the main event by describing what happened before, like calling friends and meeting at a wharf. For the main event, it suggests writing about watching the fireworks explode in the night sky using language resources like onomatopoeia and similes. It also recommends rounding out the recount by describing the event through different senses. Finally, it prompts considering how the event could be improved in the future.
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- 2. Introduction First thoughts… Audience -because they are the ones that are going to read the story. If your story has interesting parts to it, they will enjoy reading your story. Type of writing - RECOUNT Alliteration How am I going to start my story? Fahren was frightened from the flaming fireworks Language Resources Which LR would be effective for my recount writing? What do I need to know? 2 things: 1. I need to decide what I am writing about. Fireworks Show 2. What is the MAIN event/point that you want to talk about? Onomatopoeia BOOM! The noise deafened my ears! Simile I ran as fast as a cheetah to get a Hyperbole good seat for the fireworks show! The noise from the exploding fireworks were so loud, I thought my ears were going to burst!
- 3. Introduction Fireworks Show First thoughts… Audience - because they are the ones that are going to read the story. If your story has interesting parts to it, they will enjoy reading your story. Type of writing - RECOUNT I am stuck for ideas? I’m not sure if I have enough information for the reader. Use the question words to help you think about more information for the reader, without telling them straight away. where why who -wharf how -bank -fireworks show -My friends and I -celebration -walked -Te Kaha and I -get together -rode -I -horse what when -Walking to the fireworks show -The crack of dawn -Meeting their friends at the wharf -Early afternoon -Late at night
- 4. Rising Action Fireworks Show • What next? • What DID happen before the • We need to BUILD UP to the main fireworks show? event. • Shadow’s thinking: Before the • That means we are making it fireworks show, I wanted to know exciting, and make the reader what my other friends were doing, want to find out what happens so I rang them, and we met at the next. wharf. • We have to think about what • “We were all excited to light our happened BEFORE our main event. big fireworks” • Now make it exciting! • How do we make that interesting? • “I wonder what this one will do?” • “I hope it’s not too loud!”
- 5. Rising Action Fireworks Show • Does my story make sense to begin my MAIN EVENT now? Shadow’s thinking: Before the fireworks As I lit my firecracker, I began to get too show, I wanted to know what my other excited and I couldn’t run away. friends were doing, so I rang them, and Second Edit we met at the wharf. As I lit the huge firecracker, the excitement “We were all excited to light our big rushed through my body, and I didn’t even fireworks” notice I had ran back to the safety of my uncle’s work truck. Now make it exciting! The sentence RIGHT BEFORE the main event. “I hope it’s not too loud!” I looked up and saw a big ball of fire. I pulled out the biggest firecracker in the box. Second Edit “I wonder what this one will do?” I gazed upwards, watching the firecracker trail up towards the night sky.
- 6. Main Event Fireworks Show My MAIN EVENT that I decided on my planning sheet was “watching the fireworks explode in the night sky”. Irony And the loud noise I expected was quite the opposite. Which LR would be effective for my main event? What do I need to know? The different Language Resources I could use. Which one suits my story? Onomatopoeia KABOOM! What an amazing burst of colours… Simile The light lit the loud sky like livid Hyperbole lightning bolts. I felt like I was at the Sydney Olympics fireworks show!
- 7. Falling Action Fireworks Show Rounding up my main event. What could we use to help us think about what we could write about? See Taste Feel We could use our SENSES! Hear Smell see taste The size of the explosion made the sky seem I could taste the gunpowder so close. in the air. feel The explosion was so hefty, it almost pushed me over. hear The noise filled my eardrums. smell The scent of the exploding fireworks pierced my nostrils.
- 8. Future Statement Fireworks Show Thinking of my main event, and how it could be BETTER/IMPROVED in the future? What could we use to help us think about what we could write about? Could I share it with someone next time? How could it be better next time? Why would I do it again? What might make it better? How did I feel about it? Sentence Starters I hope next time… I felt… Are there any other ways of starting our If it happens again… future sentence? Hopefully… Maybe …