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talk about other things. The teacher made a list of difficult vocabularies for each text in the white board. The students had responsibility to find and write the
meaning of the vocabulary in the white board. It would make them busy with their works.
3. Cycle 3
The third cycle was conducted on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. It was the third meeting. This cycle consisted of four stages: planning, acting, observing, and
reflecting. It was conducted in one meeting. The researcher implemented the jigsaw technique for class VII.10. There were 30 students in the class; 16 girls and
14 boys.
a. Planning for Cycle 3
The researcher decided to maximize the improveme nt result of students’
participation and solve the problem occurred in cycle 2 by implementing cycle 3. Besides, the English teacher suggested teaching once more about describing
animals in order to complete all kind of descriptive texts. The researcher also wanted to solve the previous problem about cheating, talking other things outside
the materials, decreasing the students’ participation in sharing the text in the expert group, and retelling the content of the text in home group from cycle 1 to
cycle 2. The researcher divided the planning of the second cycle in two parts. They
are teaching material and lesson plan.
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The researcher decided to teach describing an animal, Komodo. The researcher considered that the students had to know the rare animal in the world.
Indonesia has some Komodo in Komodo Island which is included in Seven Wonders in the world. Therefore, it was important for the students to know about
Komodo. The researcher made a handout about describing animals. It contained of
some adjectives to describe animals and an example of descr ibing animals. The researcher also looked for a video about Komodo. It was used to make the
students did not feel bored with the same activity. The researcher found a descriptive text about Komodo and then edited it into five texts. The researcher
intended to give the students some difficult vocabularies from the text. 2 Lesson Plan of Cycle 3
The activities were still the same with the previous cycle. However, the researcher planned to write the difficult vocabularies in the white board. The
students had to work with their friends in the expert group to find the meaning of the vocabularies. They had to answer it in the white board to avoid they talked
about other things when they had already finished comprehending the text in the expert group. In order to avoid the students cheated
their friends’ work to answer the comprehension questions, the students had to answer the worksheet when they
backed to the normal sit. Therefore, they could work individually.
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b. Acting for Cycle 3
