The Third Meeting The Implementation of Cycle 2

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c. The Third Meeting

The third meeeting was carried out on Saturday, May 1st, 2010. The reading text wa s “ The Frog Princess ”. The researcher entered the class and greeted the students. The first activity was praying. As usual in the English lesson, one of the student TU became the leader of the praying in English words. After that, the researcher checked the students‟ attendance. There were 30 students in the class. One students was absent, that was Koko Aldianto, number 13. They were 15 male and 15 female students. Before teaching, the researcher gave motivation to the students. The researcher said that reading was an important activities which should be done by the students. By reading, the students could find much information. Then, the researcher explained the objective of the activity. Then, she divided the students into 8 groups. In the pre-reading activity, the researcher asked some questions to the students to lead the theme and the title of the text. The purpose was to activate their background knowledge. Before teaching reading, the researcher asked some questions to the students, they we re: “ Did you still remeber what is narrative text ?”. Some of the students answered: “Y es ” . The next question was : “ What is fairy tale ?” . One of the students answered A : “F airy tale is a kind of narrative text” . Then, the next question was: “D o you like fairy tale ?” . Some of the students answered: “Of course” . And the next question was: “ Can you mention the fairy tale that you ha ve heard before ?” . One of the students answered UA : “Rapunzel and Cinderella, bu”. Then the next question was : “Did you enjoy in reading fairy tale?” . One of the students answered UA: “ Y es I like it”. Then, the researcher said that today we would like discuss a narrative text, the title was: “ The Frog Princess ”. Then, the writer asked to the students: “ Have you ever read or heard about the story? ”. Some of the students answered: “ Not yet, bu ”. In the whilst-reading activity, the researcher distributed worksheet to each of groups. The student ‟s worksheet was in Appendix 13.c. Then, she asked some of the students to read the text loudly, the title was “ The Frog Princess ”. Before reading, the teacher gave a model to read the text correctly. Then, the commit to user teacher reminded the students how to identify a narrative text, such as: generic structure, language feature, to find detail information about the text, etc. Then, the researche r asked some of the students to retell the story “ The Frog Princess ” in front of the class. There were three students retell the story, they were: TU, V, and G. After that, the teacher asked the students to discuss in groups and answered the questions in the worksheet. Then, the students discussed Task 3, 4, and 5. While they were discussing the task, the researcher monitored them. The teacher also guided the students and corrected the wrong answers. Then, some of the groups, Group 6 and 3, reported their answer to the whole class. In the post-reading activity, the teacher concluded the lesson. Then, the researcher and the students did a reflection from the teaching and learning process that have been done. After that, the researcher gave them homework and stated the topic for the next meeting. At last, the teacher said goodbye to the students.

d. The Fourth Meeting