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Dear Granpa and Grandma,

Yesterday at my school we had an International Day. We had performances, food stalls, displays, raffle ticket draw, and some of us were dressed in costumes.

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We started our day off with performances but the one I liked best was the one from fourth grade. We played games. The performance I was in was Lambada.

Straight after our performances we had our lunch. There were food stalls. They came from Australia, Asia, Arab, and Greece.

Everyone had a job. These people were from sixth grade. I did my job after I had lunch. My job was to sell Intenational Day Books.

We had displyas in the hall. These displays were good but I didn’t get to see them. They displays came from a lot of countries.

There were also a Trash and Treasure stall where they sold toys. The school got these things by asking the children to bring them in.

Resolution

Although I didn’t win anything, International Day was still fun.

Love from Sue

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Orientation

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identify a person or thing acted or got involved in the event, including the time, a certain place, the situation, etc.

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ordered in a chronological sequence.

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Re-orientation

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not always (optional), it contains personal comments

The focus is on a sequence of events, all of which relate to a particular occasion.

The Recount generally begins with an

Orientation

Giving the reader/listener the background information needeed to understand the text. (i.e., who was involved, where it happened, when it happened).

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 (e.g., We had a wonderful time).