Planning Report of Cycle 2

For the next session, the students were shown the model text of fable entitled “The Rabbit and The Bear”. They were asked to read the text and then answer the questions based on the text. The researcher and the students discussed the text together. She asked some words to check their vocabulary mastery. She also gave additional explanation related to narrative text from what students knew. They, then, were shown another model text of fable. After being asked to read the text, they were ordered to do the true-false task. Before the students doing true-false task, the researcher explained about the passive voice that was used in the text. She wrote down the formula in the board. She also mentioned and wrote the examples of passive voice from the text to make the explanation more clear. She welcomed the students to ask anything they wanted to know related to narrative text and tell whether they still faced difficulties in understanding the material she gave. Some students asked about the grammatical rules of a narrative text and told her that they still had difficulties in the sentence structure and some others were just busy talking to their friends. The researcher asked the students to identify the phrase and sentences in the text. “Identify the phrase the Mouse army was always beaten. This is called passive voice of past tense. The mouse Army is always beaten. The word was and were here are the past form of the word is and?” “Are..” The students answered. She then write down the formulas on the board. FN 9-22042015 Next, she divided the class into 6 groups. She told the students about the project that they would develop. She also reminded the rules and procedure of the project. The project in second cycle was named “Story Book”. This book covered all stories that the students composed with their groups. This time, she separated the trouble makers in the class to be not in one group. Each group was consisted of 5 to 6 students. Moving to the next session, the researcher told the students to seat orderly from group 1 to group 6. It was quite hard and took much time to make them seat with their groups. When all the students were sitting with their groups, she told the students what they have to prepare for the next meeting. The time was up. She concluded the material of the lesson, reminded the students of the homework and what to prepare in the next meeting and then ended the class. 2 Meeting 2 After opening the lesson by greeting the students, the researcher asked about their condition and checked their attendances. First of all she began the class by reviewing the materials that the students had in the previous meeting. She asked the students about the functions and the characteristics of a narrative text. Almost all the students answered the questions well. After that, she discussed about the students’ result of test that they had in the previous meeting. Generally, students’ writing skills improved although the improvement was not significant. Most of them were still confused in applying the grammatical rules. She decided to use the students’ work as the example and discussed it along with the students. She wrote down some incorrect sentences from students’ work and invited them to correct the sentence in the board. The researcher and the students discussed it together. Before moving to the next part, she gave the students opportunity to ask questions for the difficulties they found