Skill focuses : Writing (Narrative text)
Grade : Senior High School/ X/
semester 1
Hello everyone... how are you?? I hope you'll be in your top spirit because today we will learn something interesting.
First of all, I want you to pay attention to these amazing pictures below. Identify what the picture are!
Now, after you identify each picture, let's have some fun exercise...
Do you know where you can find those words? Do you know where you can find a text that consist of princess, prince, giant, castle and others??
Yes, you're right!! In a fiction story...!! Great!
Fiction story can be called as Narrative Text and that is what we're going to learn...
Okay now... let's move to another ride of the lesson...
Yes, you're right!! In a fiction story...!! Great!
Fiction story can be called as Narrative Text and that is what we're going to learn...
Okay now... let's move to another ride of the lesson...
Narrative
text
Social function : To entertain the reader
Language feature :
Focus on specific and individualized participants
Use of past tense for the action of verb
Use of time conjunction (finally, then, suddenly, etc)
Temporal circumstance of time (one day, once upon, long-long ago, etc)
Generic structure :
Orientation : Sets the scene and introduces the participants
Complication : A conflict arises
Resolution : The conflict is resolved, for the better or for worse.
Okay, now after you know the generic structure of the narrative text, we will see an example of a narrative text...
Read the example below...!
Orientation :
Long ago there was a Mexican boy named Juan who helped raised money for his family by growing chili peppers in his garden.
Complication :
One day, when he came out to his chili patch, he found a ram there eating some peppers and stomping on others. “Go away, Mr. Ram!” said Juan. “Those are my peppers.” The ram replied, “Get away from me or I’ll butt you into the next country.” Juan started to cry, and all the animals on the little farm felt story for him. The cat tried to help. She went up to the ram and said, “You should be ashamed of yourself. Get out of there! Those are Juan’s chili peppers.” But the Ram lowered his head and said, “Get out of here or I will butt you into the next country,” so the cat ran away. The dog tried to help. He came out and barked at the Ram, but the Ram lowered his head and said, “Get out of here or I will butt you into the next country,” The dog too ran away.
Resolution :
Finally the little ant said, “I can help you, Juan.” The ant climbed onto the Ram and began biting him all over. The Ram jumped up and started running. He ran so fast and so far that he was in the next country.
Okay, after you read the narrative text and recognize the generic structures of the text, now let's move to the Language Feature. Below are the analysis of the language features of the text above. Read it carefully and you can see that each feature is labelled in different names...
Focus on specific and individualized participants = Red
Use of past tense for the action of verbs =Blue
Use of time conjunction = Green
Temporal cicumstance of time = Purple
Okay, now let's see if you've understood the text.... I want you to read carefully the narrative text below!
Once upon a time, there was a man who was living in north Sumatra. He lived in a simple hut in a farming field. He did some gardening and fishing for his daily life.
One day, while the man was do fishing, he caught a big golden fish in his trap. It was the biggest catch which he ever had in his life. Surprisingly, this fish turned into a beautiful princess. He felt in love with her and proposed her to be his wife. She said; "Yes, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about the secret that I was once a fish, otherwise there will be a huge disaster". The man made the deal and they got married, lived happily and had a daughter.
Few years later, this daughter would help bringing lunch to her father out in the fields. One day, his daughter was so hungry and she ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, he found out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned daughter of a fish”. The daughter ran home and asked her mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband had broke his promise.
Then she told her daughter to run up the hills because a huge disaster was about to come. When her daughter left, she prayed. Soon there was a big earthquake followed by non-stop pouring rain. The whole area got flooded and became Toba Lake. She turned into a fish again and the man became the island of Samosir.
You've done it??? Great!
Now, read the story once more carefully and do the exercises below!
Social function : To entertain the reader
Language feature :
Focus on specific and individualized participants
Use of past tense for the action of verb
Use of time conjunction (finally, then, suddenly, etc)
Temporal circumstance of time (one day, once upon, long-long ago, etc)
Generic structure :
Orientation : Sets the scene and introduces the participants
Complication : A conflict arises
Resolution : The conflict is resolved, for the better or for worse.
Okay, now after you know the generic structure of the narrative text, we will see an example of a narrative text...
Read the example below...!
The Ram in the Chili Patch
Orientation :
Long ago there was a Mexican boy named Juan who helped raised money for his family by growing chili peppers in his garden.
Complication :
One day, when he came out to his chili patch, he found a ram there eating some peppers and stomping on others. “Go away, Mr. Ram!” said Juan. “Those are my peppers.” The ram replied, “Get away from me or I’ll butt you into the next country.” Juan started to cry, and all the animals on the little farm felt story for him. The cat tried to help. She went up to the ram and said, “You should be ashamed of yourself. Get out of there! Those are Juan’s chili peppers.” But the Ram lowered his head and said, “Get out of here or I will butt you into the next country,” so the cat ran away. The dog tried to help. He came out and barked at the Ram, but the Ram lowered his head and said, “Get out of here or I will butt you into the next country,” The dog too ran away.
Resolution :
Finally the little ant said, “I can help you, Juan.” The ant climbed onto the Ram and began biting him all over. The Ram jumped up and started running. He ran so fast and so far that he was in the next country.
Okay, after you read the narrative text and recognize the generic structures of the text, now let's move to the Language Feature. Below are the analysis of the language features of the text above. Read it carefully and you can see that each feature is labelled in different names...
Focus on specific and individualized participants = Red
Use of past tense for the action of verbs =Blue
Use of time conjunction = Green
Temporal cicumstance of time = Purple
Okay, now let's see if you've understood the text.... I want you to read carefully the narrative text below!
Legend of Lake Toba
Once upon a time, there was a man who was living in north Sumatra. He lived in a simple hut in a farming field. He did some gardening and fishing for his daily life.
One day, while the man was do fishing, he caught a big golden fish in his trap. It was the biggest catch which he ever had in his life. Surprisingly, this fish turned into a beautiful princess. He felt in love with her and proposed her to be his wife. She said; "Yes, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about the secret that I was once a fish, otherwise there will be a huge disaster". The man made the deal and they got married, lived happily and had a daughter.
Few years later, this daughter would help bringing lunch to her father out in the fields. One day, his daughter was so hungry and she ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, he found out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned daughter of a fish”. The daughter ran home and asked her mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband had broke his promise.
Then she told her daughter to run up the hills because a huge disaster was about to come. When her daughter left, she prayed. Soon there was a big earthquake followed by non-stop pouring rain. The whole area got flooded and became Toba Lake. She turned into a fish again and the man became the island of Samosir.
You've done it??? Great!
Now, read the story once more carefully and do the exercises below!
Hove you done it? Great!
Now, let's move on to another exercise.... Here you'll find some vocabularies and... well, open it to find out what you should do!
Have you done the vocabulary exercise above? If you have then I hope it will improve your knowledge...
Now, let's move on to another exercise!!
Now we reach the end of the lesson... I believe that you all get good scores from the exercises above, right??
Now, let's move on to another exercise.... Here you'll find some vocabularies and... well, open it to find out what you should do!
Have you done the vocabulary exercise above? If you have then I hope it will improve your knowledge...
Now, let's move on to another exercise!!
Now we reach the end of the lesson... I believe that you all get good scores from the exercises above, right??
Okay, for your homework, I want you to do the exercise below.
Choose one of the assignment below! Write a narrative text with your seatmate based on the picture or video you've chosen!
a. Make a narrative text based on the picture below!
Send your narrative texts through my e-mail address : devi_shinta26@yahoo.co.id
Remember students, the deadline is next two weeks (Tuesday, June 18th 2013) !
28 May 2013 at 16:31
1. Strength:
- The layout of your blog is nice and the navigation panel is clear.
- I love your texts, i believe it will attract students' interests in learning narrative text. - I also appreciate that you provide many pictures related to narrative text.
2. Weakness:
- In my opinion, I think you need to use more communicative language so your students will enjoy their learning in your blog.
- I think the students will confuse if they are to do the exercises in the comment box. They should go up and down to do them.
3. Suggestion:
- Use more 'friendly' language so the students can enjoy their learning.
- It's better if you use a test maker which make the students do the exercises directly.
However, in general you did a great job.