Recount
The first day of studying in this course 'A Discourse Approach in Reading'.Today before we studied, teacher had told us about manners in the class. This is 6 rules that teacher told us again in this semester.
1. Be punctual
2. Pay attention to the lesson
3. Do not use cell phones in the classroom
4.Do not cheat
5. Follow dress code policy
6. Listen while others are speaking or sharing
The first lesson of this semester was 'Recount' that is a text that retells a story about past events or experiences in the order they happened.
Purpose : to tell what happened.
Types : 1.Personal Recount ( e.g. diary entry)
2.Factual recount (e.g. news report)
3.Imaginative Recount (e.g.a day in life of Roman slave; how I invented...).
Text organization
The recount generally begins with an orientation giving the reader/listener the background information needed to understand the text (i. e. who, where, when, what)
Then the Recount unfolds with a series of events ordered in a chronological sequence. At various stages there may be some personal comment on the incident.
Generic Structure of Recount
1. Orientation: Introducing the participants, place and time
2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past
3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating personal comment of the writer to the story
3. Language Feature of Recount
• Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc
• Using chronological connection; then, first, etc
• Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard, etc
• Using action verb; look, go, change, etc
• Using simple past tense
After that, she gave us to do the exercise in order to understand about recount by completing the text and finding the language features of this text.
Then, we studied "My Grandpa's Funeral in Toraja" it is about the funeral in Toraja, Indonesia. I also knew that the funeral is performed in two phases. First, they slaughter the pigs and buffaloes, and then move the corpse to face north. After that, the corpse is placed in a sandal wood coffin. Then, it is brought out of the house and placed on an open platform beneath the granary. The next phase of the ceremony is held in this place. The coffin is borne from the house and placed in the lakian. During the day, there are also buffaloes matches. In the night, we are feasting, chanting, and dancing.
In Thailand, we believe that by cremation we are sending the body up to Heaven. After death, the body is returned home, where it remains on display for either three or seven days. There will be monks in attendance, chanting in Pali (the language of the Lord Buddha). The family provides food for the villagers (usually with the neighbors’ help). Close family members pour water from silver cups over the deceased. Important people may be embalmed, and put on display for longer periods, some indefinitely.
When the cremation time approaches, the body is placed on a cart, in a white thin wooden coffin with gold filigree. The coffin is surrounded by a thin wood-and-paper mock-up of a Thai temple, brightly colored. Many flowers are placed on the cart, and a large picture of the deceased is prominently displayed. Using a long, thick rope, and led by a group of monks, friends and family pull the cart to the cremation ground. Everyone at the funeral wears black, or black and white.
At the cremation ground, the coffin is placed on the stone platform. The spectators are offered soft drinks and light refreshments. Following a final incantation from the monks, the coffin and mock-up temple are set on fire. This is often done in quite a spectacular way. The coffin is first drenched in gasoline. A thin wire runs from the viewing area to the coffin.
A different funeral between Thailand and Indonesia
- Thai people believe that the cremation, we are sending the body up to heaven after death
- Thai funeral didn't have dancing in ceremony.
- Thai people always make up on the face's corpse.
- Thai close family members pour water from silver cups over the deceased.
- Thai corpse have to funeral at the temple but Indonesia's corpse brought up to the mountain side family graveyard.
- Indonesia ceremony they will slaughtered the pigs and buffaloes.
- Indonesia's people installed the wooden puppet on a high balcony where other puppets representing the members of a whole family were already there.
What did you find easy?
The purpose of recount is easy for me because its purpose is to tell what happened
What did you find difficult?
In my opinion, I think that recount is difficult a little bit because I feel confused about Language Feature and Text Organization
What did you solve the problem?
I tried to pay attention in the classroom and wrote down the things that I got from the classroom on my sheet.
What are your attitudes towards the lesson?
I think that this course is harder than last course. The text was harder and made me more confused.
The purpose of recount is easy for me because its purpose is to tell what happened
What did you find difficult?
In my opinion, I think that recount is difficult a little bit because I feel confused about Language Feature and Text Organization
What did you solve the problem?
I tried to pay attention in the classroom and wrote down the things that I got from the classroom on my sheet.
What are your attitudes towards the lesson?
I think that this course is harder than last course. The text was harder and made me more confused.
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