Week 1 5 Jan 2016

  
Today,It's the first class in this term.Dr.Usa introduced the discouse approach in reading.She described the course descriptions,Objectives,Content,MAterial,Assessment,Grading,text book,and Requirements.She told me the class rule and thing to do.

  -I must to be punctual.                                               
  -I must to pay attention to the lesson.                        
  -Don't use cell phones in the classroom.                   
  -Don't cheat.                                                              
  -I must to follow dress code policy.                          
  -I must to listen while other are speaking or sharing.

  Then, I learn the Recount.Recount is the unfolding of a sequence of events over time.We are using language to keep the past alive and interpret experience.


 Recount has three types 
                                        
-Personal Recount          
-Functual Recount          
-Imaginative Recount     
                                        





The text organization conclude

-Orientation                               
 -Event                                      
-Reorientation                           
                                                  












She told us to find language features like  When?  Who? What?  Where? ,action verbs,linking word to do with time and specific participant.
     Next,I read the text : My grandpa's funeral in Toraja and answer the questions.The wtiter attend the funeral last month.He and his family hold the ceremony about a week.They move the corpse to face north placed on open platform .They brought up the coffin to mountain side family graveyard.