2.2 CYCLE II
a. Planning
After finding the result from the cycle I that the students’ understanding of the Simple Past Tense still had some problems, the writer and the English teacher
discussed about the result of the recent cycle, and found the solution of the students’ difficulties. After the discussion, the writer and the English teacher
agreed to give some additional to the plan that has been made before and revised it to be the better one. In this cycle the writer gave new topics and emphasized in
practice. She used different activities in each meeting to avoid students’ boredom
and to refresh the situation in the classroom. In the first meeting, the writer gave a new text to the students and then
asked them to read aloud the text while checked their pronunciation, and asked them to find out the Simple Past Tense sentence in the text. Then, she gave a
reading comprehension activity to them find out the main idea, supporting idea, specific information, etc.
In the second meeting, the writer still had the students to discuss the text that was given. After the discussion, the writer asked them to summarize the text
read it aloud in front of the class and then retell the other students’ stories. By doing these kinds of activities, the students became more active. They not only
could memorize the form of the Simple Past Tense and the verb two forms especially irregular verb from the text directly but also the use of the Simple
Past Tense in the real communication, so it made the teaching learning process became fun and easy to understand it.
Beside of that, the writer also prepared unstructured observation sheet to makes note the classroom activity during teaching learning process in acting of
cycle II and she prepared the posttest 2 too.
b. Acting
The acting of cycle II was done on 5
th
and 12
th
of November 2010. In this phase, the writer conducted the teaching learning activities to get the better result
to improve the students understanding of the Simple Past Tense by using narrative text, while the English teacher observed the teaching learning process, the writer
reviewed the material briefly and then explained new activities and exercises as stated in planning phase above.
In the first meeting, the writer reviewed the last lesson. Then, she gave them a new text The Five Footed Bear, she asked them to read aloud the story
while checked their pronunciation. After that, she asked them to find out the simple past sentences in the text.
In the second meeting, the writer gave the text with different title to the students. She still made the students to do the same activity like in the first
meeting made a summary of the text. After summarizing the passage, the students had to read their summary in front of the class, and then the other
students should ask question orally to herhim based on the text. In the last meeting, the writer asked the students to read the text aloud.
After that she divided the students into six groups each group consist of 6-7 students to discuss the text and determine the main idea and supporting idea in
each paragraph, and then summarize it. After that the writer would ask some students to retell the story with their own words. It gave them more chance to
speak and share their opinion, so they could use the Simple Past Tense both written and spoken.
c. Observing
In this phase, the writer and the English teacher made observation and discussion together. It saw that the s
tudents’ responses in cycle II were well. They were very enthusiast during the class. The students looked master the lesson, they
can understand what did the text talk about, and they did not have difficulty to make a sentence in the Simple Past Tense both used verb or to be, they also can
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