RECOUNT

Aug. 1, 2023
Short review
• 1. How can you tell from the title that ‘Shackleton’s
Journey is more likely to be a factual rather than a
fictional text?
• 2. Knowing that Shackleton’s Journey is a recount,
what are you expecting to see in it?
• 3. In what ways is a factual text different to a
fictional text?
Component 2: Purpose of the lesson
• In this lesson we are going to look at another
type of text that involves a sequence of
events,
• except this time it’s not a fictional, imagined
text but a non-fiction, factual text. It’s called
a Recount.
• Recounts generally have 3 stages: firstly, similar
to a narrative, they begin with who is involved,
and when and where the events happen
(sometimes called an Orientation); secondly,
they then outline the sequence of events;
thirdly, and this an optional section, there may
be a comment on the events.
Component 3: Language Practice
• expedition (a journey, sometimes dangerous, needing a lot of planning and
organization, usually involving a big crew and often to places that are remote
from humans)
• resilience (toughness; ability to keep going despite setbacks)
• a desolate and uninhabited landmass (an island covered in ice – no one lived
there)
• whaling station (a small village where ships that hunted whales would go for
harbor)
• grueling (difficult, exhausting)
• embarked (a tool used in spinning)
• crevasses (cracks in the ice where the explorers were walking that could
suddenly open up under their feet)
• ordeal (a difficult experience).
 Component 4: Lesson Activities
• This text is about the journey of explorers in the
Antarctic over 100 years ago.
• What do you know about the Antarctic? The text is a
Recount. As I read it, we are going to try to work out
some of the words in the vocabulary list. Also, look for
the differences and similarities
• between this recount and the narratives we have been
reading in previous lessons. Look particularly at how it
starts, how it gets going and how it ends.
Major Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
In office
11 January 1904 – 10 November 1905
Preceded by Frederick Marshman Bailey
Succeeded by William Lachlan Forbes
Personal details
Born Ernest Henry Shackleton
15 February 1874
Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland
Died 5 January 1922 (aged 47)
Grytviken, South Georgia, Falkland Islands Dependencies
Spouse Emily Dorman ​(m. 1904)​
Children
RaymondCecilyEdward
Relatives Kathleen Shackleton (sister)
Education Dulwich College
Awards
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1909)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1918)
Polar Medal with three clasps
QUIZ
1. Expedition 11. Sir Ernest Henry Shakleton
2. resilience 12. The Aged Mother
3. desolate 13. Shakleton’s Journey
4. whaling 14. Stage 2
5. grueling 15. Orientation
6. embarked
7. crevasses
8. Ordeal
9. Fictional
10. Factual
 Component 4B Questions
• Q1.How did Shackleton and his men survive on Elephant
Island?
• Q2. List the problems Shackleton and his men faced on
the journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia
Island.
• Q3. Look at the first paragraph of the text. How does it
match the typical opening paragraphs of a Recount?
Component 4C Questions [10
• Q4. What difficulty did Shackleton and his men face once
they got to South Georgia Island?
• Q5. Find evidence that Shackleton was an intelligent
leader who was not afraid to make hard decisions.
• Q6. This Recount does not have a concluding paragraph
that sums up the significance of the events.
• Write a paragraph giving the text such a conclusion.
Component 5: Lesson Conclusion

• Q1.The focus of the lesson was on learning about

how recounts work. How has the lesson helped you
to understand the difference?
• Q2.Which questions were easy to answer? Why?
• Q3.What strategies did you use to answer the
harder questions?