Conclusions Caroline`s motivation to be a foster mother to a down syndrome girl as seen in Kim Edwars` The Memory Keeper`s Daughter.

57 source of teaching reading skill. This novel provides many topics to be discussed. The topics that can be found in this novel are down syndrome, untruth, struggle, adoption, love, family, etc. From all of the topics above, the writer chooses David Henry’s white lie as the topic for teaching Basic Reading I class in the first semester of English Education Study Program. The writer would like to suggest a reading material which is based on the novel. The material focuses on the students’ comprehension about the story. To stimulate students’ curiosity, the writer arranges some questions which can brainstorm ideas related to an important concept in the text. After the students read the story, they should answer the other questions to know the their understanding about the content of the story. Below are the procedures of teaching learning activity in Basic Reading class. The Procedures: 1. The students’ reading text is taken from the novel. The text consists of four pages p. 19-25. 2. The students’ curiosity and understanding are stimulated by arranging the pre- reading questions and content-based questions. 3. The students get the materials, and do the pre-reading questions, and discuss the answers to their pair. 4. The students and the teacher discuss the answers and relate between what the students have got in the pre-reading questions and the topic of the reading text. 5. The students are asked to read the text and answers the questions related to the content of the text. 58 6. The students and the teacher discuss the answers of the questions. 7. The students are asked the to guess the meaning of the unfamiliar vocabularies according to the text. 8. The students are asked to share what moral value they could get from the material. 59 REFERENCES Abrams, M. H. 1999. A glossary of literary terms 7 th ed.. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers. Apter, M. J. 1989. Reversal theory - The dynamic of motivation, emotion, and personality. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. Beck, R. C. 1978. Motivation: Theories and principles. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Eastman, R. M. 1965. A guide to the novel. San Francisco, CA : Chandler Publishing Company. Edwards, K. 2005. The memory keepers daughter. New York: Viking Press. Franken, R. E. 2002. Human motivation. Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning Inc. Heckhausen, J. Heckhausen, H. 2008. Motivation and action. New York: Cambridge University Press. Huffman, K. 2010. Psychology in action 9 th ed.. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley Sons, Inc. Klarer, M. 1999. An introduction to literary studies. New York: Routledge. McClelland, D.C. 1985. Human motivation. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company. Murphy, M. 1972. Understanding unseen: An introduction to english poetry the english novel for overseas students. London: George Allen Unwin Ltd. Murray, E. J. 1965. Motivation and emotion. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Inc.