suggestion for teaching implementation. This section contains suggestion that might help the implementation of Some Other Summer in teaching.
1. Suggestion for Further Research
Adler’s Some Other Summer is an interesting novel. This is about a struggle of a young girl in a new strange world. She is struggling for the
fulfillment of her hunger. It is hard for someone to lose his parents. Lynette, the main character in Some Other Summer, felt the same way. Furthermore, Lynette
was just a young girl. In her new strange world, Lynette has to struggle to fulfill her needs.
The interesting topics for further research are the plot of Some Other Summer and the moral value. There were a lot of conflicts faced by Lynette. C. S.
Adler is well-known as an author who writes a lot of book for children. It can be inferred that, generally, the story she writes contains of moral value which aimed
to develop the character of the reader.
2. Suggestion for Teaching Implementation
The objective of reading novel is not merely for pleasure purpose. It can also be used for teaching and learning materials. The most useful thing that can be
gained by reading novel is enriching reader’s vocabulary. Therefore, I suggest the novel used as basic reading II material for the second semester students of English
Education or English Letter program. The implementation is written in the appendices section.
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APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1 Title
: Some other summer Author
: C. S. Adler Published
: 1982 Pages
: 126
Summary
When Lynette took care of the mare, Eddie came and disturbed the mare. The mare snorted with surprise. She tried to catch him and wanted to hit him, but
then he said that he would tell Uncle Josh what Lynette did to him. Josh is Lynette’s uncle. He had taken care of her since her mother died. Lynette replied
his threat by saying that would tell Marie what Eddie did to the mare. Eddie was not afraid of Marie. Marie was Eddie’s step mother. Josh only married Marie so is
she could take care of his horse. After that, Lynette let Eddie go. When she was thinking about Eddie, suddenly she remembered Jeremy. She thought that Jeremy
would help her. Jeremy was going to come in few days later. She took care of the mare while imagining Jeremy. It had been three years that they did not meet each
other. Now, she had been expecting for his coming.
When she got back home, she met Eddie there. Eddie always liked to disturbed Lynette. This time, he started it with a polite question for Lynette
whether she still mad of him or not. After few time having chatted, Eddie started being naughty. They had quarrel and it was ended by his leaving and tearing
Lynette’s blouse. She was very angry. She wailed and slapped Eddie as hard as she could across his face, and then let him go. She went upstairs and laid herself
on the bed afterward.
In the twilight, when she woke up, Uncle Josh called her and told that she had a visitor. It was Jeremy. Uncle Josh had gone to the bus station to pick him
up. Lynette, who has round, dark eyes fringed with thick, black lashes, took a look at herself in the mirror and brushed her hair with a pink plastic hairbrush, and then
went downstairs. She was surprise and happy at the same time. Suddenly, Eddie
came. Jeremy was wondering the left hand print on Eddie’s face. Eddie began to tell everybody about what Lynette had done to him. He told everyone as if he did
not do anything bad.
After Jeremy’s stuff was taken to Eddie’s room, Lynette asked Jeremy to go with her to see Penny, the mare. During their way to the stall, they talked about
the problem raised there. Lynette sometimes had a nightmare. She dreamt that she was in a van with horses. She thought that Uncle Josh would get rid of her
because she was only his niece, not Josh’s own child. When she had a nightmare, Debbi would get into bed with her to comfort her. She realized that Uncle Josh
had been so nice to her. She did not want to ask anything to him.
When they continue walking, Jeremy said that Lynette has changed a lot. They were talking about what Lynette had done to Eddie. He made Lynette
thought that she was brute. A few moments having such conversation, Lynette asked Jeremy to stop talking about Eddie. Lynette said that she was not a mean
person. She did so because she has to punish Eddie. They changed their topic after that. Lynette only listened to what Jeremy said.
The next day, they were all busy with their work in the ranch. Lynette started to feel that she got less attention from Jeremy, though Lynette expected
more. When the day of Debbi’s arrival came, Josh asked Jeremy to spend sometimes with Lynette. Debbi was Josh’s daughter. She had been out for a week.
Lynette felt very happy at that time, but then suddenly it was ruined. Eddie wanted to join them. They rode horses. During their way, Lynette heard very
shocking information about Jeremy. Eddie asked Jeremy whether he had a
girlfriend or not, and Jeremy said that he had one. It broke Lynette’s feeling. After few time having sightseeing, they wanted to get back home.
Suddenly, the horse Eddie rode ran out of control. Lynette and Jeremy tried to catch him, but unfortunately Eddie fell from the horse. Lynette was very worried
about him, thought there was nothing bad happened to Eddie. When Lynette took Eddie home, she heard Debbi’s voice. Debbi was Eddie’s sister. Lynette spent
some time to have a short conversation with Debbi and then get back to the paddock to see the horses. She blamed herself for letting Eddie got hurt, but she
was surprised when Marie said that the accident was not because of her carelessness. A few moments after, Lynette got back home and found Jeremy had
already been at home and chatted with Debbi. She felt very jealous.
One day, there was a fire burnt the forest. Everyone was busy to take the fire off. Suddenly, Lynette remembered of Eddie. She tried to look for Eddie
everywhere, but finally she could find him in the barn. Eddie was there to watch his fort. He was sad when he found the fort was burnt. Then Lynette confessed her
bad. She told Eddie that she had destroyed the fort before it burnt down. At that time, they started to confess their bad and forgive each other. Eddie promised to
be nice to Lynette and vice versa.
Next day, when Lynette woke up, she heard Josh’s voice. Josh accused Jeremy for setting the fire. Then Lynette got down from the upstairs and stated
that she was the one who set the fire. She was very sorry. She begged Josh for not sending him to the jail. Josh apologized Lynette and he would pretend that no one
has set the fire. Lynette was wondering why Josh did that. She had given Josh enough excuse to get rid of her. Starting from that moment, Lynette felt
something different. For the first time, she had no doubt that she was welcomed.
She belonged to Josh’s family. When the day of Jeremy’s leaving came, Jeremy asked Lynette to take
walk before his leaving. He told that everything that Lynette had told was true. He came there because he couldn’t find any place better to go. He asked Lynette to
forgive him. Lynette could forgive him and she still wanted to be his friend. She could only wait some other summer when Jeremy would come back again and
would start to love her.
Adapted from C. S. Adler’s Some Other Summer
APPENDIX 2 LESSON PLAN
Subject : English
Material
: C. S. Adler’s Some Other Summer page 23-29
Time allocation : 2 x 50 minutes class meeting
Level : second semester students of English Education Study Program
A. Basic competency
