Applying Photographs Based Activities Giving rewards to the active students.

writing product. ฀ The use of creativity had been involved by students in generating ideas and writing them to be their own texts. ฀ Some of students still faced difficulties to generate ideas using the photographs, sometimes they forgot and did not know some adjectives and nouns that could be used as their ideas written. ฀ Students seemed still had low confidence and some of them were still not independent. 2. Giving rewards to the active students ฀ Giving rewards to the active students individually and groups in the form of direct mark was successful to make students competed to be the best in class. ฀ They also seemed to start involving group discussion actively and giving motivation each other. ฀ However there were found some students were inactive in group discussion sessions. This action would be sustained in cycle II with improvement ฀ The actions should be continued in the next cycle. ฀ Then, there were some various techniques applied to make students more active in group discussion session and competed to the other groups for example doing game activity that required students to win and to get the rewards in the form of prizes. 3. Giving more feedback written and oral to ฀ Giving more feedback written and oral to the students related to their writing performance could This action would be sustained in cycle II with improvement ฀ The actions should be continued in the next cycle ฀ There were some the students related to their writing performan ce. help the students learning more on how to construct the sentence through consulting their first draft one by one. ฀ The consultations sessions could make students more aware about their writing mechanism including the use of punctuation and capitalization. ฀ However, the students were still confused about how to construct their sentences. ฀ Many of them still asked about how to construct present tense pattern and how to express something in English. ฀ Some students were still unaware in punctuation, capitalization and spelling. ฀ It seemed they did not use the given feedbacks maximally to revise additional consultation sessions out of the class.

C. Reports of Cycle II

1. Planning

Before conducting the actions in cycle II, a discussion was held by the collaborators and I in order to revise the plans in cycle II. Solving the problems found in cycle I related to the photographs choice, the type of activities that would motivate the