Recount Text: Biography of Famous People

 Recount - Biography Text

Tujuan Pembelajaran: Setelah mengikuti pembelajaran, siswa diharapkan mampu membedakan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan beberapa teks recout lisan dan tulis dalam bentuk biografi tokoh terkenal; dan mampu menangkap makna serta menyusun teks recount lisan dan tulis, dalam bentuk biografi terkait tokoh terkenal sesuai konteks.

Learning goals:

• Students will be able to differentiate a social function, the structure of the text, and the language features of several texts. 
• Students will be able to understand meaning get a new understanding of famous people's life.
• Students will be able to arrange a recount biography text about their precious people

A recount is a text which retells event or experiences in the past, meanwhile, a biography is a detailed description of a person's life includes the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death. By learning the recount biography text, we can know about someone's actions and previous values that make him/her famous. 

A recount text usually has the below structure:

• Orientation : It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.
• Events : A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.
• Re-orientation :A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.

Language feature used in a recount text:

– Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense.

– Using the verbs in the past tense / perfect past participle.

– Focus on the specific participant, e.g. I (the writer)

– Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc.

Example of biography text.

BARACK OBAMA

Barack Obama is the 44 President of the United States of America. He is also the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He made history in 2008 when he won the U.S. presidential election. He is the first African American to be President. Obama's charisma, intelligence, and powerful speeches have made him extremely popular with many Americans. He has been very successful with his message for change.

Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a black Kenyan father and white American mother. His parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian man. Barack's family moved to Indonesia in 1967. He attended schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old, when he returned to Hawaii. Obama majored in political science and international relations at Columbia University in New York.

After four years in New York, Obama moved to Chicago. There, he worked as the director of a community project from 1985 to 1988. He entered Harvard Law School and became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama taught law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. He became an Illinois Senator in 1996.

In 2004, Obama was elected as a U.S. Senator. He supported legislation on conservation, energy, immigration and honest leadership. Obama is currently battling with serious issues such as the economy. He beat Mitt Romney to win a second term in office, despite a poor economy and high unemployment. He thanked voters by promising to spend his second term honoring their support, saying: "There's a lot more work to do."

Sources: http://www.wikipedia.org/ and assorted biographies.

https://famouspeoplelessons.com/b/barack_obama.html

Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Now, my students please follow the instruction for today's learning.

Activitiy 1

Pada buku tulismu, buatlah empat bagian berisi; 

1). Definisi, apa yang kamu ketahui tentang biografi?, 2). Ciri-ciri dari teks biografi, 3). Daftar tokoh yang kamu ketahui, 4). Tuliskan satu kalimat mengenai biografi tokoh terkenal yang kamu ketahui.

Activity 2

Activity 2: Tuliskanlah sebanyak mungkin nama-nama tokoh terkenal yang kamu ketahui. Lalu pilihlah salah satu tokoh tersebut, temukanlah biografinya, baca, dan ringkaslah. Tuliskan biografi singkatnya di buku tulismu.

Activity 3. Give your comment. What can you learn from this material?