Teaching Recount Text through Instagram App.

Overview:
Senior High School students in the first semester of class 8. We will use social media especially Instagram to increase students reading skill related with recount text. They will practice how to make recount text dealing with their favorite place using Instagram app.

Objective:
Students will be able to write recount text about their favorite place using social media application (Instagram)

Time: Not more than 45 minutes.

Materials and equipment: Cellphone, Instagram app

Activity
Pre: students will be introduced to recount text using power point and video from the teacher. First the teacher introduces about the element of recount text using power point. Then the students are showed a video about someone experience and they are asked to analyze the element of recount text based on what has explained by the teacher.
Power point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44sp5L-Hdsk
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDeG28t04SQ

Whilst: Students are asked to upload their picture in Instagram and write their experience about the picture and take a hash-tag #myfafoviteplace #Bclass. Students should comment on three picture of their friend.

Post:

1. Students are asked to analyze their friends experience whether they achieve those element of recount text or not. It is like a mini review of their friends posting and the review is posted in the form of comment. It is possible to add some opinion or comment about their friend’s posting.  
2. Students have to take screenshot the comment or review, then they have to send the screenshot to the teacher email, or upload in instagram by using #reviewtest #recount_text #assignment.

Assessment
Students will be considered as success by writing the recount text if they write the text using the element of recount text appropriately.