Planning Report of Cycle 2

83 Continuing the activity, the researcher said to the students that they would be discussing the same text; a descriptive text but with different topic. They would not describe a person anymore; instead, they would describe places. The first activity, the researcher implemented the Principle of Quantum Learning “Experience before Label” to give a view about the materials they would got. The activity was sharing about placeplaces that the students had ever visited. They shared many places such as Bali, Jakarta, Lampung and others places they had ever visited. Then, the researcher displayed a PPT on the LCD screen showing some pictures of one of the famous tourism objects in Bali, Kuta Beach. The students paid attention to the pictures. Some of them said that they had ever gone there. Then the researcher divided the students into some groups each of which consisted of 4 students. Each group was asked to discuss together about what they knew about Kuta Beach. After that, the researcher moved to the next slide showing a text about Kuta Beach and distributed handouts containing the same text to the students. He asked each group to identify the text including the social function, the generic structure, and the language features of the text. All of the students were engaged in the discussion activity. Some of the groups need help and the researcher came to help them. 84 Figure 10. The Researcher is Giving Help to the Students The lesson ended after the bell rang. The teacher said goodbye to the students and dismissed the class. 2 Second Meeting The implementation of the action of the second meeting in cycle two was held on Saturday, 8 November 2014. The lesson started at 07.00. The researcher and the collaborator entered the classroom. The researcher greeted the students, led a prayer, and checked the attendance. The condition of the classroom was still the same as the previous meeting. Most of the students looked tired and bored. They responded to the greeting not so enthusiastically. Realizing the situation, the researcher raised the students’ spirit by asking them to sing together while clapping hands as shown in the following vignette.