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Grade 12 Diary Entry Writing Guide

The document provides guidelines for writing a diary entry. It states that a diary entry does not have a fixed format but generally includes the place, date, day, and time. It can have an optional heading. The tone should be informal and personal. Diary entries are a personal document so signatures are optional. The writer can develop their own style depending on the topic. It then provides an example diary entry of a student who topped an exam zone and received many congratulatory messages.

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Grade 12 Diary Entry Writing Guide

The document provides guidelines for writing a diary entry. It states that a diary entry does not have a fixed format but generally includes the place, date, day, and time. It can have an optional heading. The tone should be informal and personal. Diary entries are a personal document so signatures are optional. The writer can develop their own style depending on the topic. It then provides an example diary entry of a student who topped an exam zone and received many congratulatory messages.

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  • Guidelines for Diary Writing
  • Example Diary Entry
  • Creative Writing Task

DIARY ENTRY

GUIDELINES FOR DIARY WRITING

A diary entry has no fixed format or style of writing. However, a good


diary entry does

contain the following features:

1.A good diary writing contains the place, the date, the day and even
the time of writing.

For example:

Agra

20th July, 20XX

Friday, 8:00 p.m.

2.A diary doesn’t need any formal heading. However, it is optional. If


you want, you can

give a suitable heading.

[Link] style and tone is generally informal and personal. However, it


depends on the

subject. Sometimes the tone can be philosophical and reflective too.


You can freely

express your viewpoints and feelings.

[Link] the diary is writer’s personal document, the diary entry doesn’t
need any signature.

It is totally optional.
[Link] can evolve your own suitable style depending on the topic of
your writing.

DIARY ENTRY

[Link] was the happiest day of your life when the Principal of your
school informed you and your parents that you

topped the list of successful candidates in your zone. Then started


the endless ringing of telephone bells.

Congratulatory messages started pouring in from friends and


relatives. All the neighbours came to congratulate

you on your grand success. At the end of the day, you were so much
overwhelmed by happiness and excitement

that you made a diary entry of the sequence of events on that fateful
day. Reproduce that entry here inventing

your own details.

Answer:

Ambala

10th March 20XX

Monday, 6:00 pm

Dear Diary

Life is full of surprises. I couldn’t sleep the previous night. The next
morning the results of the Board were to be

announced. Then suddenly at 9 am, we heard a telephone ring. I ran


to receive it. My Principal was on the line.
“Congratulations my boy! You have topped the list of successful
candidates in the Ambala Zone. We are proud of

you!” He also congratulated my [Link] started the non-stop


congratulatory messages from my teachers,

class fellows, friends and relatives. My parents were busy in


distributing ‘laddoos’. I felt like a celebrity. And a

celebrity I was. Two correspondents of leading news channels came


to interview me. I only felt that nothing

succeeds like success and thanked my stars.

Yash

Classwork( To be Done in English Notebook)

21 July 2022

[Link] you are one of the villagers who attended M. Hamel’s


last lesson and was highly impressed with his capabilities as a
teacher. You feel sorry for the children for being deprived of such a
good teacher who could form and reform the students and
inculcate good moral values in [Link] a diary entry in about
120-150 words expressing your feelings.(5 Marks)

DIARY ENTRY GUIDELINES FOR DIARY WRITING A diary entry has no fixed format or style of writing. However, a good diary entry d
5.You can evolve your own suitable style depending on the topic of your writing. DIARY ENTRY Q.lt was the happiest day of yo
“Congratulations my boy! You have topped the list of successful candidates in the Ambala Zone. We are proud of you!” He also

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