Designing Lesson Plan Selecting Acting Play Script Activities

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a. Designing Lesson Plan

A lesson plan is designed to equip the teacher with a set of teaching- learning components for the effectiveness of carrying out of the teaching and learning activity in the classroom. The components include: 1 the specific instructional objectives that should be achieved; 2 the instructional material sources and media which should be used; 3 the teaching-learning stages or scenario which should be taken in class; and 4 assessment which should be done. The teaching-learning scenario is done in three stages: Pre-activity, main activity, and post activity. In Pre-activity, the teacher gives triggering questions as brainstorming activity to prepare the students with the topic being discussed and provides the students with the background knowledge they would use to do the assigned tasks. The main activity is focused on the teaching speaking through acting play script tasks. The teacher explains the technique to the students. The teacher explains the situation of the play. The students are asked to sit in groups of 2 or 4, and then they are given a topic to discuss and told what to do. They are given time to write the script, memorize it and finally they are asked to present or perform it to the class. During this activity, observation is being done to get the data needed. The post activity is focused on reviewing or debriefing what the students have done in the task given. The teacher gives a kind of evaluation or correction lxv on the students’ speaking skill including pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehensibility.

b. Selecting Acting Play Script Activities

As stated in the previous chapter, there are many kinds of tasks or activities offered to the teaching of speaking. However, the researcher only uses or applies one of them which is believed to be the most appropriate ones for the eighth year students at SMP Negeri 1Kalitidu. It is APS. The activity is chosen in this study because the researcher believes it is very applicable in that class based on the speaking ability and interest of the students. In APS, the students are grouped into 2 or 4. All groups are given a topic to prepare. They have to make a script for the topic and act it in front of the class. Their action is responded by the other groups. During this activity, the researcher and the collaborator do their observation to know the students’ speaking skill.

c. Deciding the Criteria of Success