Unit 1

What is Courage?

Recount

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Information about a real-life event is called a Recount.

To "Recount" means to tell the facts and/or details about a real life story or event exactly as it happened. When authors write about real-life events, they tell the story differently than they tell fictional stories. For instance …

• photographs of the event can be included, as it really happened
• the author includes where and when the event happened
• the events are told in the order they really happened, the sequence
• the recount might include statements made by the participants before, during, or after the event
• the author provides an ending to “wrap up” the story, to bring it to a close

The next few stories you will read are about real-life people involved in real-life events. 

When you read them, think about how the author recounts the story, and how it is similar to, and different from, made-up (Fictional) stories.