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4.1.4 The Implementation of Cycle 2
After finishing cycle I, the teacher had re-planned lesson plan to implement cycle II. The learning process in cycle two consists of two meetings.
First meeting was implemented on Wednesday, 24
th
of July 2013 and second meeting was conducted on July 29
th
, 2013. Teaching learning process in cycle II as bellow:
1. Re-planning
Referring to the problems and the factors causing that found in the implementation of the cycle 1, the teacher re-planned lesson plan to do cycle 2.
The teacher revised lesson plan as follow: the teacher involved the students in front of the class directly to make MMS into sentences. Then, the teacher changed
the theme of descriptive text about pets in their environment based on the students‟ request. Next, the teacher gave them some vocabulary that related to the
theme. The teacher also had to explain about noun, adjective phrase, organization of sentences and sentence construction rules.
2. ActingObserving
The first meeting in the cycle 2 conducted on Wednesday, 24
th
of July 2013 at 07.30 until 08.50 a.m. The first action focused on creation of descriptive
sentences and descriptive text based on the lesson plan that had been prepared by the teacher.
The process of implementation of the cycle II at the first meeting preceded by the
teacher checked the students‟ attendance list. The teacher called the role of teaching learning process and gave motivation to the students in order to follow
teaching learning process seriously. The teacher gave brainstorming related to the
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theme, topic or kind of text that were going to be discussed. The teacher
introduced instructional objectives basic competence to be learned. The teacher asked to the students about the difficulties of descriptive text that had been taught
before. The teacher gave explanation about adjective descriptive, noun phrase,
certain words of descriptive text and showed an example of pets picture that should be described. In this meeting, The teacher gave instruction to the students
and chose some students randomly to create mapping concept in the part of a pet body on the white board. Then, other students wrote down part of a pet body
based on the result of their friends mapping concept on the white board. The teacher also chose some students to write adjective phrase and noun phrase into
sentences to make a good descriptive text based on the result of concept mapping of their friends on the white board. The teacher gave instruction to the students to
ask, gave comment or gave respond about their friends writing on the white board. The students gave attention to their friends when did descriptive text on the white
board and some of them wrote the important things of learning materials. After the students finished in making descriptive text on the white board, the students
and teacher discussed together. After that, the teacher gave exercise to the students about descriptive
materials that had been prepared by the teacher. When the students did the exercise, the teacher monitored the students activities. The teacher gave
instruction to the students to consult the difficulties in doing the exercise. Next, the teacher gave instruction to the students to finish the exercise as their home
work that would be discussed in the next meeting.
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Then, the teacher gave motivation to the students and the teacher asked about students‟ problems in learning descriptive materials. The teacher gave
solution about students‟ problems in learning process. Then, the teacher and students concluded the teaching learning process together.
The students‟ participation when conducted teaching learning process in this meeting was very well. It was supported by the result of observation that there
were 18 students who asked questions, 25 students who answered questions and there were 36 students who responded well.
The second meeting was conducted on Monday, 29
th
of July 2013 at 08.30 until 09.50 a.m. In the second meeting was follow up of the first meeting. In
addition, it was addressed to sharpen the first meeting in the cycle 2. In this meeting, the activities preceded with the goal of writing descriptive text as the
effort to motivate the students. Then, the teacher provided the opportunity for students to ask questions about the difficulties in learning descriptive text before.
After that, the learning process continued by checking the task of students‟
writing descriptive text at the previous meeting. Next, the students‟ task result
were exchanged with other students and discussed together. The teacher gave instructions to write down the things that should be corrected by the students on
the white board. After the students revised their writing, the teacher asked to the
students to submit it to the teacher. Then, the teacher continued learning process by giving a pet picture to be discussed. Next, the teacher explained the easier
strategies to write descriptive text by applying Mind Mapping Strategy MMS. To make the students more understandable, the teacher chose some students
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randomly to create mapping concept of a pet picture that had been provided y the teacher. Furthermore, the other students wrote descriptive sentences in accordance
with the mapping concept into a good descriptive text. After that, the teacher and the students checked together the results of descriptive text that had been done by
students on the white board. The teacher asked to the students about the difficulties in learning descriptive text and then the teacher gave motivation to the
students. After the teacher and the students discussed descriptive materials
together, the teacher gave the students post test 2. The instruction of the test was same as in the post test one. The theme of post test 2 was about pets. In this test,
the students followed the test well. Time to finish the test was 40 minutes. They did the test seriously and silently. The result of the test in cycle II shown on the
table below:
Table 4.3 Students’ Mean Score in Post Test 2 of Cycle II
Number of Students Students
’ Total Score Students
’ Mean Score
40 3226
80.65
The table 4.3 above shown the students‟ mean score in post test two of cycle 2. T
he students‟ mean score was 80.65. In this test, the highest score was 86 and the lowest score was 70. There were 35 students or 87.5 who got score
around 75. However, there were 5 students or 12.5 who got score less than 75. The students who got score under 75 did not pass the KKM.
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The students‟ participation in the second meeting of cycle 2 also very enthusiastic. In this meeting, there were 26 students who asked questions, 26
students who answered questions and there were 36 students who responded quite good.
3. Reflecting
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