Diary Entries
English Language: KS3, topic 5.1.3
Diary Entries
A diary is a recount of events in a person’s life, usually written in chronological time order.
Content of a diary
- A diary documents what happens in a person’s life.
- A diary is written in the first person.
- A diary is usually structured by providing a date for each diary entry to record when events happened.
- Diaries explain the writer’s thoughts and feelings about events too.
Diaries significance
- Diaries are usually kept private by the person writing them.
- Sometimes diaries become widely read and very important to understand history.
- Diaries have been read and analysed for hundreds of years.
Historical importance
- Reading diaries is a way to explore what life was like in a particular period.
- Diaries describe life from a person’s perspective (point of view).
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