Differences Between a Personal Recount and a Factual Recount

A Personal Recount-

The writer must be involved in some way
The writers reponses are involved
The events relate to the topic
Correct order of events that happened
Personal comment at the end
First person (I, me, we etc)

A Factual Recount-

A general statement
Includes when, where and who
Events in order
Third person
Evaluation at the end of the Recount
Written in the past tense
Summing up or personal comment at the end
Relates to ONE event

My Chaotic Holiday...

I awoke in the morning ready for my day to begin. It was the first Tuesday of the Term 3 holidays. It was my close friends birthday and she had invited another friend and I.

After I had managed to drag myself out of bed I realized my Mum was asking me a question. As I stumbled into her room her facial effects made me giggle. "What's wrong Mum" I shrieked with laughter. "Your, your h-h-h-hair" she replied. "Somebody slept with the alligators didn't she Lil Miss Tiggii Moo". "I'm pround to say yes I did" I happily replied. I turned around to look at myself in the mirror and all of a sudden I ended up rolling around on the end of Mum and Dad's bed. Turns out the question she was asking me was to drag Boo (my little/younger sister) out of bed. Getting myself up was a problem never mind Boo. So I decided it was a brilliant idea to blow an air horn right beside her ear. HOOONNNKKKK!!!!!

Boo was wide awake in no time... Anyway when we eventually got out into the lounge we flicked the TV on and stuck it on MTV (That's our favourite music channel). The song Forgive Me by Leona Lewis popped up. We began bopping to the beat but we were cut short by Mum telling us to hurry and get changed. I chose to wear my pink top thing, black 3 quarter shorts, pink singlet and white overtop type of thing. My Mum had to leave for work and Kennedy was going to a holiday programme called School's Out. That left only Dad and I...

We had a few jobs to do in town so we headed to Hunting and Fishing. Dad drove into the car park to find Adam (a family friend) fly-casting. As soon as we got into the store Dad walked straight over to the fishing part. I can't remember what he brought but we were home in no time. Soon enough my friend arrived with her younger sister. We stuffed my clothes into the boot and headed off to the movies. Her other friend (I didn't know her until we met) was around 15 minutes late but that didn't matter. We had enough time to buy ice-creams, popcorn and drinks...

The House Bunny (the movie we were watching) was about to start and we had just enough time to grab our seats. The House Bunny turned out to be a humorous movie. After... When we eventually got back to her house it was just out about time to feed-out. So we got into really old wrecked clothes (mine weren't really old) and went to feed her pig, Dolly or something like that. I can't remember what happened after that because I got drunk on sparkling grape juice...
FINISHED... THE END...

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