Description of SMP N 3 Boyolali

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CHAPTER III DISCUSSION

In this chapter, the writer discusses things related to the activities which have been done by the writer during the job training in SMP N 3 Boyolali. This chapter is divided into five sub-chapters, namely Description of SMP N 3 Boyolali, Activities during Job Training in SMP N 3 Boyolali, Process of teaching descriptive text to the seventh grade students of SMP N 3 Boyolali, Difficulties encountered by the writer in teaching descriptive text to seventh grade students of SMP N 3 Boyolali, and The problem solutions encountered by the writer while teaching descriptive text at SMP N 3 Boyolali.

A. Description of SMP N 3 Boyolali

SMP N 3 Boyolali is a public school which was established in 1968. It is located on Karanggeneng Street, Boyolali, Boyolali. SMP N 3 Boyolali is a junior high school which gets A score in school accreditation. Since in 2010, this school gets achievement status as SSN Sekolah Standar Nasional from the government. SMP N 3 Boyolali is one of best junior high schools in Boyolali and it has several academic and non academic achievements especially in sport. The junior high school has vision and missions to support the implementation of learning process and activities in SMP N 3 Boyolali. The school’s vision is to produce graduates who are religious, good quality, respectful, and creative. The indicators of the vision are loyal in doing religious activities, 15 commit to user best in religious activities, optimum in academic achievement, excellent in non academic achievement, well mannered in social activities, respectful in social activities, skilled in skill level, and excellent in sport activities. For achieving that vision, SMP N 3 Boyolali has several missions namely increasing students’ awareness to do their religious activities loyally, increasing students’ enthusiasm in doing religious activities tolerantly, making religious condition internal and external school environment, optimizing learning process in class, utilizing all school resources, making environment condition for learning process which is enthusiastic, encouraging and helping students to improve their aptitude and interest optimally, making favored and respectable social condition, increasing students’ attention, responsibility, and pride to school, developing students’ creativity in skill and art level, developing students’ skill in sport, making learning environment that are orderly, clean, healthy, beautiful, comfortable, and peaceful, and providing facilitation for academicals and non academicals especially in sport. This junior high school has several facilities and extracurricular to encourage, to improve and to develop the students’ skill and learning process which is done in school not only in academic but also in non academic especially English. The school provides some laboratories such as language laboratory, biology laboratory, computer laboratory, and physics laboratory. Besides, the school also provides some facilities like library, multimedia room, art room, and skill room. All facilities and laboratories have complete tools and facilities or resources which can be used by the students. commit to user In English lesson, the students of SMP N 3 Boyolali are enthusiastic and interested very much. They are very active to join English competition like speech contest and debate. In this school, English lesson is taught by four competent English teachers who are graduated from bachelor degree and doctoral program. For developing their English skill, the students’ are given an extracurricular program named English club which is held one time a week after learning process is end. The activities in English club are speaking, discussing difficulties in English lesson, practicing speech and debate or making a poem and a story. Based on the description and explanation above, the writer finally decided to conduct job training in SMP N 3 Boyolali because the school has good quality and enthusiastic students.

B. Activities During the Job training in SMP N 3 Boyolali