Planning Report of Cycle 2

69 The lesson was begun by doing the first exercise which was matching famous places and their locations. The researcher also had each group to write a sentence describing every famous place in the picture. It seemed that the students were quite into doing this kind of activity so the researcher decided to walk around the class to check their progress and she found out that the students had made a lot of improvement even though some of them still asked her about the English word of this or that. After about eight minutes, the groups had finished the exercise. The researcher asked whether there was anyone who wanted to share their group work with the class. She also told them that if they volunteered, it would earn them a plus point. Upon hearing this statement, the students scrambled for a chance to share their work and while they wrote the answers, the researcher noted down their names. Once they were done, the researcher told the class to look at the answers and decide whether they were all correct or there was still something wrong with them. Surprisingly, all the answers were right. The next activity was to fill in the blanks. This was needed to improve the students’ vocabulary mastery and check their understanding in sentence structure and how to use verbs appropriately. Because this exercise was quite easy for them, they finished their work within five minutes which was quite a progress. “Latihannya gampang ya?” “Iya, Miss. Suka lihat gambar tempat-tempat wisata juga.” Field note 22, February 13 th , 2015 70 Upon finishing the last task, the groups moved on to the next assignment. In this assignment, each group was asked to discuss and correct a text with incorrect words, capitalization, and punctuation. It took them longest to do this exercise as they had to pay attention to details. While the groups were doing the assignment, the researcher walked around the class to check up on them. Some of the students were pretty confident for they considered this task rather easy. They needed more time because they were required to pay special attention to the details such as capitalization and punctuation marks. Some others seemed slightly less confident as they had difficulties in correcting the words. The last activity of this meeting was to construct a short descriptive text based on a picture. The researcher made this task easier for the groups by providing related vocabulary. However, even with the vocabulary has already been given, some students still asked the researcher about the English words of other language units they wanted to use. After the assignment had already been finished, the researcher concluded the meeting by summarizing the lesson of that day. She also informed the class that in the next meeting there would be a final test and that the meeting would be their last. “Susah ya?” “Iya, Mbak. Njlimet banget sih. Nggak ada yang lebih mudah ya?” Field note 22, February 13 th , 2015 71 2 Fifth Meeting The fifth meeting was conducted on 14 th of February, 2015. It was the last meeting. The researcher entered the classroom and greeted the students. She asked the chief of the class to lead a prayer before checking the students’ attendance. For the last meeting, the researcher would focus more on giving the students a chance to compose descriptive texts, but before that, they had to give peer feedback first. The assignment that was needed to be given feedback was the last one from the previous meeting. Each group was asked to exchange their work with other group. After that, they had to correct the text their friends had written based on a picture. While the groups were doing their task, the researcher walked around the class and made sure that each student still remembered how to give peer feedback. The group had fun doing this exercise. Once the task had already been done, the researcher decided that she needed to refresh the students’ minds by giving a brief explanation of some materials they had already learned such as sentence structure, simple present tense, new vocabulary in the form of adjectives and verbs, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. It was given to strengthen the students’ basic knowledge before they had to face the second post-test. During this activity, the researcher noticed that some of the students caught on more quickly. The next exercise was for the groups to write a descriptive text, consisted of one paragraph, about Prambanan Temple. There was a picture of the temple and the vocabulary had already been provided. The research told the students that 72 one group with the best writing would get a reward for each of its group member. This certainly boosted their motivation to do better. They very enthusiastically finished the task. After they were done, the researcher asked them to collect the assignment. The students were also instructed to disband the groups and go back to their own seat as the researcher would begin the test soon. Once they were settled down, the researcher distributed the worksheets. She then explained the rules to the students. It was an individual test so cheating would not be tolerated. They were also not allowed to open their dictionaries. The time for them to finish the test was one hour. The students were all really serious in doing the test. In the first ten minutes, there were some students who still looked confused, but the researcher noticed that it only happened at the beginning as those students started to find their pace. The researcher walked around several minutes to check their progress. After that, she went back to the teacher’s desk and quickly assessed the students’ last group assignment. Once the researcher was done correcting their works, she went back to check up on the students. Most of them had already finished the test but some others were still halfway there. She then announced that only ten minutes left for “Kelompok dengan tulisan terbagus dan terbenar tentang Prambanan Temple nanti akan dapat hadiah.” “Beneran, Miss?” “Iya, bener.” “Yeeeeee....” Field note 24, February 14 th , 2015