Planning Report in Cycle 1

to share a narrative story. Again, another student told the story using present tense. After that, the researcher distributed the model text to the students. They began with Task 1, reading a story entitled “The Wolf and the Goat” and answered questions in Task 2. After reading the story, the students were asked to list things that they wanted to know further. The students had 10 minutes to write things that they wanted to know further. They were monitored by the teacher. After ten minutes, she asked the students about the text given. She asked the students whether they wanted to share their list of things that they wanted to know further or not. At first, students tended to be passive in the class, yet when the researcher said that she would give a sticker to those who wanted to share a list of things that they wanted to know further, they raised their hands enthusiastically. She also said that it did not matter if they made mistakes because they were still learning. After that, the students reread the text. They tried to collect information in the text. Then, students collected information about narrative text from the researcher and the material given in the handout as well. The researcher then explained the purpose, generic structure, and language features of a narrative text. Students got the information that the generic structure of a narrative text consists of orientation, complication, and resolution. In the orientation, they found the participants in the story. In the complication, they found conflict. In the resolution, they found a solution for the complication. In narrative texts, a resolution can be happy ending or sad ending. The students also got moral values from the story. The moral values can be implicitly or explicitly found in the text. Afterwards, the researcher asked the students what tense was used in a narrative text. Most of them answered past tense. However, there were students who answered present tense. Then she answered the questions by guiding them to read some sentences in the text, for example, “Once upon a time, a wolf, which was out searching for a meal, saw a goat feeding on grass on top of a high cliff ”. Students then were asked to identify the tense used in a narrative text. When she asked again about the tense, “so, what tense is used in the text?” almost all of them answered past tense while students who doubt about the answer just listened to their friends’ answer. Next, the students listened to the teacher’s explanation about the structure of the simple past tense and verbs used in a narrative text to make them understanding the sentence used in a narrative text. The students were invited to give examples of sentences in the form of past tense. The students also got knowledge about regular and irregular verbs. In addition, the researcher explained the present tense used in a narrative text which is usually used in conversations in the text. The students also learned about another language feature of a narrative text which was signal words. They got some examples of signal words form the text such as then, next, afterwards, just then, and an hour later. Then, they underlined the signal words in the text that they had read. After having a discussion about two examples of narrative text, the researcher made a conclusion about a narrative text and how to write it. The