RECOUNT TEXT_ FOR GRADE TENTH_ LINGUISTICS AND CULTURAL STUDIES

 

UNIT V

RECOUNT TEXT

A recount text  is a kind of text used to relate experiences or retell event for the purpose of informing, entertaining, or reflecting.

Recount texts can be personal, or factual.

Ø  PERSONAL RECAOUNT : retelling an activity that the writer has been personally involved in and may be used to build the relationship between the writer and the reader. For example, diary, journal and personal letter.

Ø  Factual recount : reporting the particulars of an incident by reconstructing factual information. For example,  historical recount, biographical, and autobiographical recounts.

 

The structure of recount texts

A.      Personal Recount

§  Orientation: introducing the participants, place and time.

§  Event: describing the series of events that happened in the past.

§  Reorientation: the personal comment of the writer related the story.

Example:

Table 1.1 generic structure of personal recount

ORIENTATION	At the beginning of March 2020, COVID-19 started to spread in Jakarta. Within a few days, the contagion started to reach other cities around Jakarta and several other places across Indonesia. With this condition, the government issued a warning and instructed all schools and universities to call off all activities at school and replace it with online learning instead. As the result, I have been studying at home ever since.
EVENTS	The study from home method was first implemented on March 16th. The online classroom was not ready at that moment. Mr. Rudi, my homeroom teacher, instructed my class leader to create a WhatsApp group for our class. When my class leader had created the group, he added all contacts of our class members and also Mr. Rudi into the group. After that, Mr. Rudi told us that we had an assignment from Miss Caca, our Biology teacher, to make a summary about virus and send it to her email when we have done it.   My friends and I started working on Miss Caca’s assignment from 10 a.m in the morning. The assignment was quite challenging without Miss Caca’s presence, because we couldn’t discuss it with her right away every time we stumbled upon some technical terms that we have never heard before. It felt even more challenging to do the assignment alone by our self at home. We then decided to have online discussion by using WhatsApp group call. Finally, we managed to finish the assignment at 2 p.m. and sent it right away to Miss Caca.   The next day, Mr Rudi informed us that the online classroom were ready. He told us to download Google Classroom on our phone so that we could access the class. We started the class at 7.30 a.m. just like our usual school hours. Our first lesson that day was Math with Mr. Fendi. Since it was an online classroom, we weren’t required to wear our uniform. I personally enjoyed it, especially when Mr. Fendi told us that we could have some snacks during the class.   Mr. Fendi’s class ended on 9.30. At the end of the meeting, he gave us a homework that we had to present on our next meeting. The next class was supposed to be Mr. Kiki’s, but for some personal reason, he couldn’t make it. So he gave us an individual homework where we have to draw basketball court along with players’ position on it. We work on the assignment until 11.30 and then we sent the result to Mr. Kiki’s email.   We had our break at 12.00 and continued the class at 13.00. The next lesson was chemistry with Mr. Basuki. He conducted the class through a teleconference by using Zoom Aps. It was fun because we finally get to experience a real teleconference where we could interact to each other in real time. Mr. Basuki gave us a project this time. He told us to make hand sanitizer by using home ingredients. Each of us tried to follow the step by step guidance provided by Mr. Basuki and tried to produce our own hand sanitizer. At the end of the class, we presented the result to Mr. Basuki.
REORIENTATION	That was my experience of studying at home during this Coronavirus outbreak. The activities was fun because my friend and I get to experience new way of learning and I personally think that it is good for student like us to use these kind of technologies in our learning process. But, I miss my friends so much, so I hope this outbreak ends soon.

Source:https://www.bigbanktheories.com/contoh-recount-text-tentang-virus-corona

B.     Factual recounts

§  Orientation: introducing the participants, place and time.

§  Events: describing the series of events experienced by the participant.

Example:

Table 1.2 generic structure of factual recount

ORIENTATION

B.J. Habibie, in full Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, (born June 25, 1936, Parepare, Indonesia—died September 11, 2019, Jakarta), Indonesian aircraft engineer and politician who was president of Indonesia (1998–99) and a leader in the country’s technological and economic development in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

EVENTS

Brilliant in science and mathematics from childhood, Habibie received his postsecondary education at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia, and furthered his studies at the Institute of Technology of North Rhine–Westphalia in Aachen, West Germany. After graduating in 1960, he remained in West Germany as an aeronautics researcher and production supervisor. Suharto took power as Indonesia’s second president in 1966, and in 1974 he asked Habibie—whom he had known for 25 years—to return to the country to help build advanced industries. Suharto assured him that he could do whatever was needed to accomplish that goal. Initially assigned to the state oil company, Pertamina, Habibie became a government adviser and chief of a new aerospace company in 1976. Two years later he became research minister and head of the Agency for Technology Evaluation and Application. In these roles he oversaw a number of ventures involving the production and transportation of heavy machinery, steel, electronics and telecommunications equipment, and arms and ammunition. Habibie believed his enterprises ultimately would spawn high-tech ventures in the private sector and allow the country to climb the technology ladder. In 1993 he unveiled the first Indonesian-developed plane, which he helped design, and in the following year he launched a plan to refurbish more than three dozen vessels bought from the former East German navy at his initiative. The Finance Ministry balked at the cost of the latter endeavour, while the armed forces thought that its turf had been violated. Nevertheless, Habibie got more than $400 million for refurbishing. Meanwhile, in 1990 Habibie was appointed head of the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association, and during the 1993 central-board elections of the country’s ruling party, Golkar, Habibie helped the children and allies of President Suharto rise to top positions, easing out long-standing military-backed power brokers. By the late 1990s Habibie was viewed as one of several possible successors to the aging Suharto.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/B-J-Habibie

The language feature used in recount text:

§  Introducing personal participant: I , my group, etc.

§  Using chronological connection: then, first, next day, etc.

§  Using linking verb: was, were

§  Using action verb.

§  Using simple past tense.

 

REFERENCE:

Ira Wijayanti. 2016. Buku Siswa Be Smart in English For Grade X of Senior High Schools Linguistics And Cultural Studies. Kartasura: Pt Wangsa Jatra Lestari

Edited by Muzhidah, S.Pd