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Narrative Text

A narrative is a type of spoken or written text that tells a story of one character or more who face certain situations. There are various kinds of narratives such as fairy stories, mysteries, science fictions, romance, horror, etc. This type of text can be found in short story books, magazines, novels, movies etc. Narrative is popular because they present a plot which consists of complications and resolutions. They make people feel curious and anxious with the ends of the stories. The generic structure of narrative usually has four components (but the one is optional): (1) Orientation, (2) Complication (3) Resolution and (4) Re-orientation (it is optional).

A.Generic Structure of Narrative

1. Orientation : sets the scene and introduces the participants (characters) of the story, the time and place the story happened (Who, what, when and where)
2. Complication : a crisis arises. A series of events in which the main character attempts to solve the problem
3. Resolution : the crisis is resolved, for better or worse
4. Re-orientation: it is optional. The ending of story. It sometimes contains the – solution

B. Generic Features

1. 1.A narrative focuses on specific participants.
2. 2.There are many action verbs, verbal and mental processes
3. 3.Direct and indirect speeches are often used
4. 4.It usually uses Past Tense
5. 5.Linking words are used, related with time
6. 6.There are sometimes some dialog and the tense can change
7. 7.Descriptive language is used to create listener’s or reader’s imagination
8. 8.Temporal conjunctions are also used.

Now read this text of narrative!
When Love is Blind

Orientation:

There was once a beautiful girl living in a city. She was known as Shinta, a nice and friendly girl. She studied at a popular senior high school in the city. She always followed the trend of young people life style. She got dressed as how the trend was at the time. In her idea, western modern life was the ideal model for all people. She thought that everybody should be free to do anything he or she liked.

She had a handsome boyfriend, Deo. Having a boy or girl friend was like a must for the young people in the city. Parent’s advice to get away from western culture was considered as old-fashioned.

Shinta loved his boyfriend very much. On Saturday evening they made a date, going to a theatre, café or party. Shinta’s parents were worried about her. They have warned her but she ignored them.

She thought, “Though my parents don’t agree with me, the show must go on. I love him very much. Whatever happens to me, I will face it”. Yes love was blind. She got blind. Since then, she often quarreled with her father and mother. She became uncontrolled. She more often went out at night with the boyfriend. But, her parents could do nothing but only wait, see and pray.

Complication:

Days went by. One morning, Shinta got a serious stomachache and wanted to throw up. She got dizzy; she went to the bathroom and threw up some contents of her stomach. Shinta was very worried. “Am I getting pregnant?” she asked herself. Her worries grew stronger until she decided to buy a pregnancy tester in a shop. She tested her urine. And … what a shock! The tester showed a positive pregnancy. Shinta got fainted in her room for some minutes. She was very afraid that her mother knew what happened.

Shinta tried to hide her pregnancy. Her face got pale every day and looked unhealthy. She tried to contact Deo. Knowing her girlfriend got pregnant; he was also frustrated and didn’t want to admit that he was the father of the baby. He tried to avoid meeting Shinta. He was not responsible for the consequence. He asked her to abort the baby, but she refused.

The stomach became bigger and bigger, but she was successful to hide it from other’s sight. She was very depressed, and more and more. Four months later, in one evening, when she could no longer be able to keep the burden, she decided to do abortion. In her bedroom, she took a chair and jumped from it to the floor. When her feet touched the floor, a bloody clod of a red fetus covered with placenta was dropped, cried and move several seconds, then stopped moving. The blood was running out of her skirt, making the floor wet. Shinta could see what happened in front of her eyes, didn’t know what to do. She tried to stand up. But then she got unconscious.

The next day, in the morning when she didn’t get out of the room, Shinta’s mother called her name several times. No answer made the mother open the room door and looked inside. She saw blood everywhere in the floor and walls. The horror was shocking her when she found her daughter lying near the dead small fetus. She was upset but could control herself.


Resolution:

Shinta’s mother quickly took her to the hospital. But, it’s too late. On the way Shinta died before she got a help. On the same day, the news about Shinta spread throughout the city.
Written by Cahyono


To make it clear, please remember the concept of narrative below:

Purpose:
To amuse or entertain
To deal with actual or imaginative experiences in different ways

Text Organization of Narrative
Orientation
Complication
Resolution

Language Features of Narrative

• Focus on specific and individualized participants
• The use of material process (action verbs)
• The use of some behavioral and verbal processes
• The use of relational and mental processes
• The use of past tenses
• The use of temporal conjunctions and circumstance

Sources:
Cahyono, Kristiawan Dwi and Eka Purnama.2006. Communicative Competence 2B: A course in Acquiring English Communicative Competence, For Senior High School Level, Grade XI Semester 2. Jombang: CV Karunia Agung

Sudarwati and Eudia Grace.2007. Look Ahead: An English Course for Senior High School Students Year XI, Science and Social Study Program. Jakarta: Erlangga

Descriptive Text

Task 2 for Changing Mid-Test
Read the explanation below before you compose your writing

The Definition and Purpose of Descriptive Text
Descriptive Text is a text which say what a person or a thing alike,in other words; Descriptive text is a text which describes a special thing, people or animal.
Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
Descriptive text has structure as below:
Identification ; identifying the phenomenon to be described.
Description ; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.

The Language Feature of Descriptive Text
Using attributive and identifying process.
Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group.
Using simple present tense.
Using the third participant point of view who knows everything about the thing described.

More explanation
In composing a descriptive text, you must prepare your object maximally. you must know the details of your object to give a clear description to the readers. You can mention the features, the size, the age, and the quality of your object. To make your reader understand, it will be better to give a analogy.
Clear description prevent the readers from ambiguity of understanding your object to describe.

Example
Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia. It is centrally located within the country on the northwest coast of Java Island at the mouth of the Ciliwung river. Jakarta dominates Indonesian’s administrative, economy, cultural activities, an is a major commercial and transportation hub within Asia-with a population of about 9 million, Jakarta has more people than any other cities in Indonesia.
The climate is hot and humid year-round. Rainfall occurs throughout the year, although it is the heaviest from November to May. To average annual precipitation in Jakarta is 1, 790 mm. The city lies on a flat, low plain and is prone to flooding during periods of heavy rainfall.
Kota is city’s oldest commercial area. It is located south of the old Sunda Kelapa harbour. Glodok, the south of Kota is a banking, retail and residential neighborhood with a large Chinese population. Merdeka Square with Monas (The National Monument) dominates the city’s central district. Surrounding the square are Istana Merdeka, the presidential palace, the National Museum, and the Istiqlal Mosque.

Adapted from: Microsoft Encarta

Your Task
Compose a descriptive text in about 250-500 words using the following titles:
1. Class E > Title: Jenderal Sudirman Street
2. Class F > Title: Campuss Crossroad
3. Class C > Title: Shopping Centre
4. Class D > Title: Ahmad Yani Hospital
5. Class G > Title: Chandra Supermarket
6. Class H > Title: Mosque Taqwa
Whole place are in Metro City.
Type your text on a piece of A4 paper size then collect it at the first meeting of May 2010. Everybody must attend the meeting to collect it and to sign mid-test attendance. If you are absent, I will refuse your work, so It means you don't folleow my mid-test, because this
work is for changing our mid-semester Test. You have 2 days more for composing it perfectly, so DON'T MISS IT and GOOD LUCK!

Power Point Teaching Media

Teaching will run smoothly and more acceptable when teachers use teaching media.
By using it, student will understand easier what the teachers want to explain since students are interested in the way teachers teaching.
The most common media which is used for teaching in senior high school is Power Point Slides.
PowerPoint Slide or Ppt Slide is one of the documents that teachers can create and use simply. In this kind of document, teachers can elaborate many of slides he planned to be presented depends on their creativity.
As a teacher we must understand what our students need for increasing their motivation and getting their attention along their study at school.
By presenting a good slides, teacher, automatically, get his students attention in teaching. On the other hand, using this media is not difficult. Teachers are able to create the slide using the standard one for the beginning.
This is not without a requirement. For presenting a lesson using ppt slides, teacher at least, must understand how to create a slide and choose what material can be presented through this media. Not all of media can be presented using ppt slide because of its complex.
If teacher explains the lesson too fast, I afraid students don't understand, even they are afraid of English because it is too difficult in their opinion. Actually, I want to share about ppt slide but I'm not brief enough to share because of my limited knowledge of IT. So, again and again you can ask my "grandfather" whose name is Google. Say hello to him and ask what do you wanted to ask.
I myself (the writer) want to support teacher by giving some examples of the media, but I planned to upload the file after I finish my portofolio and collect it. So, visit me again some few weeks forward, or you can try to start creating your own slide right now Thank you.

Coba Aja, Pasti Bisa

Setelah seringkali melihat blog-blog yang ternyata menarik sekali, akhirnya saya tertarik untuk membuat sebuah blog sendiri.
Pengetahuan tentang IT yang minim membuat saya tidak mengerti cara membuat blog. Ilmu tentang IT tidak pernah saya dapatkan dan juga keterbatasan kesempatan untuk mengetahui yang disebut "internet" semakin membuat saya gaptek. Padahal, mengenal komputer (setidaknya mengetik) sudah saya dapatkan sejak sekitar 8 tahun lalu saat saya membulatkan tekad untuk menulis skripsi Bahasa Inggris saya untuk mendapatkan gelar Sarjana, dari nol sampai selesai.
Selama kurun waktu itu, tidak ada kemajuan yang saya perolek kecuali semakin terbiasa untuk mengetik teks yang standar saja.
Sekitar 1 tahun yang lalu saya baru mengenal yang namanya internet dan dari dunia maya inilah saya banyak menemukan pengetahuan baru, baik tentang hobby saya maupun hal-hal lain yang berkaitan dengan dunia tanaman, ternak dan pendidikan - yang disebutkan terakhir saat ini saya jalani sebagai seorang guru-.
baru sekitar 1 bulan yang lalu saya mencoba memberanikan diri bertanya kepada teman - teman serta kenalan saya yang saya anggap tahu tentang dunia Komputer dan IT tentang cara membuat sebuah blog.
Ada hal unik yang tak pernah terfikirkan sebelumnya. Setiap teman atau kenalan yang saya tanya bagaimana cara membuat web sendiri, jawabannya hampir sama "Cari aja di Google mas, dia kan lebih pinter, pasti dikasih tau."
Dengan "bekal" agak menggerutu akhirnya saya tanyakan kepada Google tentang hal tersebut dan Alhamdulillah saya mendapatkan jawaban yang saya inginkan. Dengan agak geli saya senyum-senyum sendiri karena heran mengapa tidak pernah terfikirkan oleh saya sebelumnya bahwa bertanya kepada google dapat membantu saya, hi,hi,hi. . .
Tulisan ini sengaja saya buat supaya teman - teman yang pengen membuat blog sendiri tetapi masih bingung dan sempat membaca tulisan saya ini, menjadi PD dan berani bereksplorasi untuk mencari pengalaman para blogger yang sudah lebih dahulu mahir nge-blog.
Kalau cara yang saya gunakan begini:
1. Buka google dengan kata kunci cara membuat blog
2. Ikuti aja langkah - langkah yang diberikan oleh teman - teman blogger di situs - situs tersebut
3. Asal diikuti aja petunjuknya insya Allah anda bisa punya blog sendiri seperti saya.
Jadi jangan ragu untuk mencobanya.
Selamat mencoba . . . . .
Salam Kenal (mas Aslam)