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accompanied by some questions as clues to do this exercise. In this exercise, students felt difficult to do it. They said that the exercise was harder than the once
given in the previous meeting. They saw the difficulties in this exercise and some complained to the researcher. The researcher gave explanation to help the students
and they tried to do as they can. b
Reflection of the fourth meeting In this meeting students still found many difficulties to make support
sentences exploring the main idea in some paragraphs of text because they did not do like this exercise before. The students should be given more exercise in the
next meeting.
c. Revising the Plan
Based on the result of the observation of the reflection above, the researcher tried to solve the problems founds in the first cycle. She discussed with
the collaborator, then, the researcher decided to plan the material and made the class actively. The summary is presented in the following table:
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Table 4.1 Cycle 1 Time of Meeting
Activities Observer
notecomment Whole notes
Cycle 1 Thursday 22
nd
April 2010
a. Opening the
lesson b.
Continued the teacher
material about Simple
Past tense
The material
which was given well, but the way
was rather boring to the students.
In the beginning the class was very
noisy but could silent
and the
students were
active The voice was soft
so some
the students did not
hear clearly
Friday 23
rd
April 2010
c. Opening the
lesson a.
Introduced recount text
b. Explained
recount text
using guided
writing with
article of
newspaper The material was
given quit interesting. It
could be proved by most students
could answered the questions
although with a little joke
Many students were outside of
classroom when the researcher and
teacher entered the class.
The students were active although
they still made joke.
Thursday 29
th
April 2010
a. Opening the
lesson b.
Writing recount
text using
guided writing
with article
of newspaper
c. Exercise:
The exercise was good because it
did not to test the students but just
to exercise the students’ habit.
When doing the exercise many of
the students still made noise so they
could not do it well
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Finding synonym
using article
which contained bold
words and
rearrange a
jumble paragraph.
Friday 30
th
April 2010
a. Exercise:
Exploring the main idea of
text with their words related
to
recount text. The clue
to explore the main idea was
given
from the questions
related to the text.
Students must get more exercise like
this; it was good because
the researcher
still gave guidance.
Because the time was limited, many
students could not explore the main
idea well.
2. Cycle 2
