2. Stating Goal, Topics, and General Purposes
In this step, the intended goal had important point for the instructional materials. In this study, the goal was to help the eighth grade students of SMPN 1
Kalikotes Klaten write compositions correctly. After identifying the goal, the writer selected the topics that were used in each unit of the materials. The topics
were developed from the Basic Competence of the School Based Curriculum of SMPN 1 Kalikotes Klaten. The listed topics are stated as follows.
Table 4.2: The topics on the designed materials
In this study, there are three objectives. Those are at the end of the course, the students are able to:
a Make a good composition using mind mapping given.
b Use the writing characteristics of each topic.
c Draw a mind mapping according to the students’ topic.
Unit Topic
Unit 1 Invitations Let’s Go to the Party
Unit 2 Short Messages Attention, Please
Unit 3 Announcements Check This One Out
Unit 4 Describing Animals In The Zoo
Unit 5 Describing People Celebrity Wanna Be
Unit 6 Describing Places Go On A Wonderful Trip
Unit 7 Biographical Recount From Zero To Hero
Unit 8 Personal Recount You’ve Got Mail
3. Listing the Learning Objectives
Learning objectives were regarded as the indicators of the syllabus. The indicators were the measurement for the students to attain the goals of the course
from each unit in writing skill. The syllabus indicators were formulated by the competence standard, basic competence, learning materials, and learning
activities. The learning objectives should involve the students’ ability to make compositions based on the topic given. Writing their own sentences according to
the media given on the designed materials, the correlation between the content and organization would prove that the students had attained the indicator. The learning
objectives of each unit can be seen in the syllabus on Appendix E.
4. Listing the Subject Contents
After listing the learning objectives, the next step to do was the writer listed the subject content. This part deals with the content of what would come up
in each unit of the designed materials. The writer arranges 8 units on the materials and there would be four sections of each unit. The sections are Let’s Get Started,
Let’s Study, Write with Joy, and Sharpen Your Skill. a.
Let’s Get Started This section provides the students’ discussion of their interest, experience,
and knowledge before they come to the main writing activities. This section supplies some questions to encourage students’ mind so that they will find a
comfortable atmosphere in writing class. It is hoped that Let’s Get Started is able to enrich the students’ experience and improve their communicative activity.
b. Let’s Study
Let’s study is a section where students can read some examples of the unit discussion based on the topic given. The examples help the students’ point of
view learn the following steps in this course. After reading and learning the examples, students are going to read the explanations of the topics. Hence,
students can conclude the lesson they get by understanding the examples and the explanations of the units.
c. Write with Joy
This section is the activity for each unit. Students are going to make a writing product to be submitted to their teacher. Some mind mappings will guide
students’ writing process before the first submission. Teacher will evaluate students’ work and give some feed back for their works. On the following meeting
teacher will send it back to students so they can make some revisions of their writing. The task can be individual work and group work, depends on the
instruction for every unit. d.
Sharpen Your Skill According to the schedule presented by SMPN 1 Kalikotes Klaten, there
are only eight meetings for writing class. The writer believed that the students need more than eight meetings to practice their writing. Hence, this section
provides additional exercises for students to be done at home. Students are going to have the opportunity to draw a mind mapping according to their choices and
write some paragraphs. They bring their works on the next meeting. They will exchange their works with their classmates to get some feedbacks.
The subject contents of the designed materials can be seen on Appendix G.
5. Developing the Syllabus
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