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Lesson Plan
School

: SMPN 1 Seyegan

Subject

: English

Grade/semester

: VIII/1

Topic

: Our National Heroine

Time Allocation

: 4 x 40 minutes

Cycle/meeting

: I/1-2

A. Standard of Competence
5. Understanding the meaning of short functional texts and simple essays in the form
of descriptive and recount which related to surroundings
B. Basic Competency
5.3 Responding to the meaning and rhetoric steps in simple essays accurately, fluently
and acceptably which are related to surroundings in the forms of descriptive and
recount texts
C. Indicators
1. Finding the main idea of each paragraph
2. Finding the details information of the text
3. Summarizing the text into a short paragraph
D. Learning Objectives:
1.

After the text is read, the students are able to identify main ideas correctly

2.

After the text is given, the students are able to identify the factual information
correctly

3.

After the text is disscused, the students are able to make a short summary.

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E. Teaching Materials
RA Kartini
Every April 21, people in Indonesia commemorate the Kartini day. It is a
beautiful day for the woman because we celebrate the birth of great lady, RA.
Kartini. Everyone knows who kartini is. She is our national heroine and a great lady
with the bright idea.
Kartini was born in 1879, April 21 in Mayong Jepara. Her father was RMAA.
Sosroningrat, Wedana (assistant of head of regency) in Mayong. Her mother, MA
Ngasirah was a girl from Teluk Awur village in Jepara.
As the daughter of a noble family, she felt lucky because she got more than
the ordinary people got. She got better education than other children. She did
anything she wants although it was forbidden. She passed her childhood with her
brother and sister. Because she was very energetic, her father called her "trinil" .
Then her father was chosen as Bupati (the head of regency) in Jepara.
She and her family then moved from Mayong to Jepara. In the same year, Kartini's
second sister RA Kardinah was born. The environment in Jepara gave her big chance
to develop her idea. She could study at the Dutch owned school where only children
from noble family could study here.
Few years after finishing her study, RA. Kartini was willing to continue her
study in higher level. But the custom of that day forbid a woman to go to school. A
tradition of that time, a teenage girl should be secluded and limited her activity. So
was Kartini. She was secluded inside the house and forbidden to go out until a man
propose her. The rule could restrict her body but not her mind. During her "pingitan"
time, she spent her time by reading book which she got from her relatives.
Although she was not able to continue her study to higher level, she was smart had a
bright idea. She got the knowledge from the books she read. To express her idea, she
established a school for local people on the backyard of Jepara city hall.
In November 12, 1903, she married Adipati Djoyodiningrat, the head of
Rembang regency. According to Javanese tradition Kartini had to follow her
husband. Then she moved to Rembang.
In September 13, 1904 she gave a birth to her son. His name was Singgih. But after
giving birth to a son, her condition was getting worse and she finally passed away on
September 17, 1904 on her 25 years old.
Now Kartini has gone. But her spirit and dream will always be in our heart.
Nowadays Indonesian women progress is influenced by Kartini's spirit stated on
collection of letter "Habis gelap terbitlah terang" from the dusk to the dawn.
http://www.ardianrisqi.com

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F. Teaching Learning steps

1. Pre reading
a. The teacher opens the teaching-learning activities by greeting and checking
the students attendance,
b. The teacher shows the picture of R.A. Kartini and leads the students to the
topic by asking the following questions:
1) What day is 21st April?
2) Who is she?
c. The teacher explains recount text.
d. The teacher distributes the text to the students.
e. The teacher asks them to read the text at a glance.
2. Whilst reading (Guided Reading activities)
a. The teacher asks the students to find the difficult words in the text.
b. The teacher asks them to read the text carefully to find the detailed
information.
c. The teacher asks them to face down the text.
d. The teacher drives them discuss and memorize the information from the text
by asking them the following guided questions and then asks them to answer
or write the correct answers on the board by drawing a concept mapping.
The questions to discuss are:
WH Questions

Questions

Who

1. Who is Kartini?
2. Who is her father?
3. Who is her husband?

When

1. When do people
commemorate the Kartinis
day?
2. When was Kartini born?
3. When did she get married?
4. When was her children born?

Responses

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Where

1. Where did she study?

What

1. What happened after she gave

a birth to her son?
2. What did she leave for
Indonesian women?
3. What she did when she can
not study in higher level?

Yes/No
Questions
Did

Questions

Responses

1. Did she get an education like an

ordinary people in that time?
2. Did she go on to higher school?

e. The teacher gives the students 10 minutes to discuss those with their friends
next to them.
f. The teacher reads the questions one by one then write the answer on the board.
3. Post reading (Summarizing Procedures activities)
a. The teacher asks the students to make a summary of the discussed text in a
pair and submit it.
b. The teacher gives the students two kinds of summary of the discussed text.
c. The teacher lets the students to examine and discuss with their friends to
determine which summary is better.
d. The teacher asks the students to explain their reason about their choices. After
that the teacher and the students discuss the summary together.
e. The teacher gives back the students summary and aks them for giving
comment about ther summary.
f. The teacher drives the students to arrange the answers written on the board
into a good paragraph by using the pronoun for replacing name, men, women

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and introducing sentence connectors such as after, first, then, after that, next,
and finally .
g. The teacher asks them to work in pair to write a summary of the text
discussed by including merely the most important information.
G. Source and Media :
1. Source: Scaffolding English for Junior High School Grade VIII, internet
2. Media: picture
H. Assessment:
1. On going assessment
The students are assessed during the teaching learning process, especially
when they are doing their tasks
2. Summarizing assessment
The students summary is assessed merely from the content point of view
based on the scoring guides below:
a. 3 or good if the main ideas are stated fairly clearly and accurately, change of
opinion relatively clear
b. 2 or average if the main ideas are somewhat unclear or inaccurate, change of
opinion statement somewhat weak
c. 1 or poor if the main ideas are not clear or accurate, change of opinion
statement is weak
d. 0 or very poor if the main ideas are not at all clear or accurate, change of
opinion statement is very weak
(adapted from assessing language ability in the classroom by Andrew D. Cohen)