Recount
Today was the first day of studying in this course 'A Discourse Approach in Reading'.
Before studied, teacher had told us about manners in the class. This is 6 rules that teacher told us again in this semester.
The first lesson was 'Recount' the 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.
Then, teacher assigned 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.
Then,the teacher assigned us to find the information about the funeral in Thailand in order to compare with Indonesia.
Thailand's Funeral
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.
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What are your attitudes towards the lesson?
In my opinion, the recount is difficult because I feel confused about Language Feature and Text Organization but the purpose of recount is easy for me because its purpose is to tell what happened.I have to try to pay attention in the classroom and note the things that I got from the classroom on my sheet and web blog.
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