LESSON PLAN

School

: SMP HARAPAN NUSANTARA

Subject

: English

Class/Semester

: VII/2

Skill

: Writing

Meeting

: 1-2

A. Standard Competence:
Expressing meaning in functional written texts and simple short essays in the
form of descriptive and procedure to interact within the surroundings.

B. Basic Competence:
Expressing meaning and rhetorical steps in simple short essays by using various
written form accurately, smoothly and acceptable to interact within the
surroundings in the form of descriptive or procedure text.

C. Indicator:

Identifying generic structure of descriptive paragraph (Identification,

Descriptions and Conclusion (optional)

Writing a descriptive paragraph based on the generic structure

D. Learning Objectives:
1. When the students are given a chance to read a descriptive paragraph, they are
able to identify the generic structure of the paragraph based on the theory
which has already been studied.
2. When the students are given a title, they are able to write a good descriptive
paragraph in accordance with the generic structure which has already studied .
E. Expected characters
- Responsibility
- Creative
- Active
- Hard Working
F. Learning Material:
1. Definition of Descriptive Paragraph
Descriptive paragraph is paragraph which expresses or describes place, thing
and person in such vivid detail that the readers can easily visualize the described
place, thing and person or can picture what it looks like. In addition, descriptive
paragraph is also defined as a paragraph which is written with our senses since the
paragraph will make the readers see, touch, taste, hear or smell the object.
The writer should try to present his/her paragraph in the light of the five
senses so that the readers will have the same picture as the writer. Furthermore,
writing a descriptive paragraph is mainly intended to provide the reader with a vivid
description so that the paragraph will appear as a picture to the readers. Therefore, a
good descriptive paragraph will make the readers clearly catch what is trying to
describe.

2. Generic Structure
Descriptive paragraph is intended to describe place, person, and thing so that the
reader will be able to visualize the object. Writing descriptive paragraph, generally,
you have to consider the following generic structure:
a. Identification
Identification is a part in which you identify or write the recognition; moreover, it
can be a general statement about place, person, or thing that you want to describe.
b. Descriptions
Descriptions are vivid detail of place, person, or thing that you want to describe
so that the reader can easily imagine or picture the object, or they can feel the
object with the five senses.
c. Conclusion
The last part of descriptive paragraph is optional (i.e. it may be included or not).
In this part, you conclude the paragraph or restate the identification.
3. Writing Descriptive Paragraph
In this sub discussion you will be given step by step processes of writing
descriptive paragraph. The process of writing descriptive paragraph is preceded by
writing the identification, descriptions, and conclusion, and it can be further described
as follows:
a. Identification
Identification states or identifies the place, person or thing that you want to
describe. Identification will tell the reader what is going to be described.
Example:

I think that my mother is a beautiful person

b. Descriptions
After stating identification of the paragraph, now you try to develop it through
providing it with some descriptions that can picture place, person, or thing that you
are going to describe. These descriptions should be well organized in order to make it
unified and coherent. Use as many as possible descriptive words that reveal the
description of the object.
In descriptive the more details you include, the more clear your reader will
imagine what you are describing. Your details should appeal to the five senses, and
they should tell the reader how something looks, smells, sounds, feels and tastes.
Write about colors, sizes, shapes, odors, noises, and textures.
To develop your descriptions, in order to make them well organized, you can
use spatial order (Oshima and Hogue 2007). In description, a writer uses spatial order
to organize his/her ideas. Spatial order is the arrangement of items in order by space.
Here are some spatial order signals: at the top of, in the center, on the left, in front of,
in the front of, inside, next to, between, behind, in back of, in the back of, across
The following are some descriptions which can be drawn from the topic sentences:
Example:
-

She is not tall but not short, and she has curly hair and brown.
Her eyes color are like honey and her color skin color light brown, and she

has a beautiful smile. Her weight likes 120 lbs.

She is a very kind person. She is very lovely, friendly, patient, and she loves to
help people.

c. Conclusion

After writing a good identification and its descriptions, now you should also
write a good conclusion. A conclusion is not absolutely necessary, but it is often very
helpful to the readers because it usually signals the end of the paragraph and because
it reminds them of your important points.
A concluding sentence can be a paraphrase (i.e. repetition of the topic
sentence in different words) of the topic sentence or summary which is not
specifically stated in the topic sentence.
Example:

I love my mom, because she is a good example to me.

After constructing identification, descriptions, and conclusion, these three

elements are further arranged into a descriptive paragraph. In arranging these
elements, we, obviously, have to consider the two additional elements (i.e. unity and
coherence). The paragraph will be as
follows:

My Mother
I think that my mother is a beautiful person. She is not tall but not short, and
she has curly hair and brown. Her eyes color are like honey and her color skin color
light brown, and she has a beautiful smile. Her weight likes 120 lbs.

She is a very kind person. She is very lovely, friendly, patient, and she loves to
help people. She loves being in the Church, and she loves sing and dance too. She is
a very good child, wife and mother. She always takes care of her family. She likes her

house to be clean and organized. She a very organized person, and all things in the
house are in the right place. She doesnt like messes.
She always has a smile on her face. She is so sweet and lovely. I like when I am
going to sleep or went I wake up or when I am going to go to some places, she
always give me a kiss, and when the family have a problem she always be with us to
helps us and to give us all her love. I love my mom, because she is a good example to
me.

Exercise book (Lks bahasa inggris SMP Kelas VII)

Time Allotment: 4 x 40 minutes
2. Technique:
CIRC(cooperative integrated reading and composition)
3. Learning Activities:
First meeting

1.

Pre-Activities ( 10 minutes)
Greeting the students

Time
1

2.

Checking the students attendance

3.

Motivating the students and describing the material

which are going to be discussed generally

4.

Stating the learning objectives to be achieved and the

importance of studying descriptive paragraph

Whilst-Activities ( 60 minutes)
Exploration
5.

Proposing some elicited questions on what they have

known about descriptive paragraph

Elaboration
6.

Inviting the students to make group heterogeneously ,

one group consist of 3 - 4 persons,

the students

cooperate read each other, find the specific information

in the descriptive paragraph entitled my mother and
identify the generic structure of the descriptive
paragraph, find the main idea and giving opinion to the
paragraph in the group. asking the students to take a
note about the importance think that they find in
reading selection or paragraph which is related to
descriptive paragraph writing at the end the
students write the result on the paper. The last
step is

asking the students to read the result

from groups discussion after that researcher and

students

make

explaining the theory)

summary

together,

(before

20

7.

Explaining about descriptive paragraph systematically

from the definition, the generic structure and the steps of 10
writing a good descriptive paragraph

8.

Asking the students to write their descriptive paragraph

base on the topic in reading selection above and their

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discussion in the group and then they write descriptive

paragraph in group.
Confirmation
9.

Opening question and answer session or asking the

students difficulty

10. Giving positive feedback and reinforcement orally or by

using gestures for the students success
Post-Activities ( 10 minutes)
11. Summarizing the material which has already been
10
discussed

4. References
1. Exercise book(Lks bahasa inggris SMP Kelas VII

2. Wadirman,Artonodkk.2008.Englishinfocus.Jakarta:pusatperbukuan,departmen
pendidikan nasional tahun 2008
5. Assessment
a. Tehnique

: Written Test

b. Form

: Identifying and Writing a Descriptive Paragraph

6. Rubric Assessment
SCORING RUBRIC : PARAGRAPH
Max.

Actual

Score

Score

FORMAT 5 POINTS

There is a title
The title is centered
The first line is indented
There are margins on both sides
Tidiness
Total

PUNCTUATION AND MECHANICS 5 POINTS

There is a period after every sentence
Capital letters are used correctly
The spellings are correct
Capitalization & other punctuations are used correctly
Total
CONTENT 20 POINTS
The paragraph fits the assignment
The paragraph is unity.
The paragraph is coherence.
Total
ORGANIZATION 40 POINTS
The paragraph begins with a clear identification about the
object to be described.

1
1
1
1
1
5

1
1
2
1
5
4
8
8
20
10

The paragraph contains vivid detail descriptions of place,

25

person, or thing that students want to describe so that the

reader can easily imagine or picture the object, or they

can feel the object with their five senses.

The paragraph ends with an appropriate concluding

sentence.
Total

40

GRAMMAR & SENTENCE STRUCTURE 30 POINS

Estimate a grammar and sentence structure score
Grand Total

30
100

Taken from Oshima and Houge(2007:196)

Denpasar.2013
English Teacher

Ni Wayan Mei Indrayani