QUBA MOSQUE

The Quba Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in the world. Quba mosque was built in the year 1 Hijriah or 622 M in Quba by our prophet Muhammad Shallallahu ‘Alaihi Wasallam. It is located approximately 5 km to the southeast of the city of Madinah. It is a simple mosque, but it becomes the example for next construction of mosque in this world.

Quba mosque in our prophet era and now are different. In our prophet era, we can find many pillars from palm trees, the flat roof that made from the date leaves and clay. In the middle of the mosque, we can find a well; it is used for taking ritual ablution.

Quba mosque nowadays, the courtyard is flagged with black, red and white marble. The mosque has 19 doors; 3 doors are the main doors and 16 doors are the common doors. From the 3 main doors; 2 doors for men and a door for women. When entering into the mosque, pay attention to the instruction in the front of the door, whether the door for men or women.

Now, we enter to the mosque, the prayer hall is arranged around a central courtyard, it’s characterized by six large domes resting on clustered columns. A portico, which is two bays in depth, borders the courtyard on the east and west, while a one-bayed portico borders it on the north, and separates it from the women's area. The women's area, which is surrounded by a screen, is divided into two parts as a passageway connects the northern entrance with the courtyard.

In the 20^th century when renovation was conducted, the prayer hall connects to a cluster containing; residential areas, offices, ablution facilities, shops, and a library. Six additional entrances are dispersed on the northern, eastern and western façades. Four minarets mark the corners of the prayer hall. The minarets rest on square bases, have octagonal shafts which take on a circular shape as they reach the top.

Method and Technique in teaching this material   : Picture to picture

Learning Scenario for Senior High School :

1.      Opening writing activity

a.       Greeting .

b.      Checks the students’ attendance list.

c.       Connecting the last lesson with today’s lesson.

d.      Telling the students what will they learn today.

e.       Delivering the purpose of the study.

2.      Whilst writing activity

a)      Asking student about their general knowledge about the topic ( Quba mosque).

b)      Showing a picture of the Quba mosque and showing the example of descriptive text “Quba Mosque” by LCD or some of papers.

c)      Asking student about descriptive text in general.

d)     Giving instruction indirectly (asking general structure, social function, and grammatical future by student center base on their prior knowledge).

e)      Explaining about general structure, social function, and grammatical future of descriptive text in detail by teacher center.

f)       Asking the students to write a simple descriptive text .

3.      Post writing activity

a)      Feedback.

b)      Giving student the chance for asking their problem in learning descriptive text.

c)      Conclusion by students first.

d)     Giving assignment for the students to write the descriptive text.

TEACHING MEDIA

FLANNEL BOARD

(RETELLING NARRATIVE STORY FOR KINDERGARTEN)

A.           CONCEPT OF SCENARIO

I am a kindergarten teacher. For this material, I use a flannel board to teach my students. The material that will be taught is retelling narrative story.

This is concept of the video.

1.      Pre activity

a.       Greeting

b.      Introduction of the material

2.      Whilst Activity

In this section, a teacher just retells a narrative story, “Three Little Cats”.

Once upon a time there were three little cats and the time came for them to leave home and seek their fortunes.

Before they left, their mother told them "Whatever you do, do it the best that you can because that's the way to get along in the world.

The first little cat built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do. The second little cat built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house. The third little cat built his house out of bricks.

One night the big bad dog, who dearly loved to eat fat little cat, came along and saw the first little cat in his house of straw. He said "Cat, cat, let me in, Let me in, little cat, or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!"

"Miau,miau, no,no,no!", said the little cat.

But of course the dog did blow the house in. the cat ran and shout, “Help me! Help! Help!

The dog then came to the house of sticks.

"Let me in , let me in little cat, or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in."

"Miau, miau. No, no, no!", said the little cat. But the dog blew that house in too. Both of the cats shout, “Help me, help, help!”

The dog then came to the house of bricks.

" Let me in , let me in" cried the dog, "Or I'll huff and I'll puff till I blow your house in."

"Miau, miau. No, no, no!" said the cat.

Well, the dog huffed and puffed but he could not blow down that brick house. But the dog was a sly old dog and he climbed up on the roof to look for a way into the brick house.

The little cat saw the dog climb up on the roof and lit a roaring fire in the fireplace. When the dog finally found the hole in the chimney he crawled down. The buttock of the dog was burnt, that was the end of his troubles with the big bad dog.

3.      Post activity

The teacher gives conclusion by giving some messages relate to the narrative story.

B.            TOPIC AND TARGET

The topic of this lesson is retelling narrative story with the title “Three Little Cats.” This story is modification from familiar story, Three Little Pigs. We know, in 2013 Indonesia curriculum, we expected to consider the topic relate to the milieu of the students, so the primary changing here is the pigs change to the cats.

Target of this presentation is to improve listening skill of kindergarten students. Automatically, they will become usual to comprehend the foreign language, especially English.

C.           MEDIA AND TOOLS

Choosing suitable media is very important; it is expected in kindergarten level to avoid boring of the students. In this section, I am as a teacher use the flannel board to deliver the material. The board and some characters that will be used have to prepare some days before delivering to students.

D.           TECHNIQUE OF VIDEO PERSENTATION

Technique in delivering this material is a teacher retells the narrative story while showing the character on the flannel board, so it will help the students to comprehend the story and to get the message of the story.