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INTRODUCTION

1. Short Description

a) What is a Legend?

Legend is part of Narrative text. Narrative text is an imaginative story to

entertain or amuse the readers or listeners. It also can be based from real story
but with additional seasoning to the story to make it more interesting. (Source:
Otong Setiawan Dj., 2013)

A legend is “a story or narrative that lies somewhere between myth and

historical fact and which, as a rule, is about a particular figure or person.”
Traditionally, a legend is a narrative that focuses on a historically or
geographically specific figure, and describes his exploits

b) Kind of narrative text

Common forms of narrative text which are studied in junior high school are:

(1) Legend

A legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and
listeners to take place within human history. Typically, a legend is ashort,
traditional and historicized narrative performed in a conversational mode.
Some define legend as folktale.

Example:

Sangkuriang

Malin Kundang

The Legend of Tangkuban Perahu

(2) Fable

Fable is a short allegorical narrative making a moral point, traditionally by

means of animal characters who speak and act like human beings.

Example:

Mouse deer and crocodile

A fox and a cat

The story of monkey and crocodile

(3) Fairy tale

Fairy tale is an English language term for a type of short narrative

corresponding to the French phrase “conte de fee”. A fairy tale typically
features such folkloric characters as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves,
giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.
 Example:

Cinderella

Snow White

Beauty and the Beast (Source: Rahmat Wijaya, 2011)

2. Relevance

3. Learning Guide

In this learning activities, through a scientific approach using Small Group Discussion
learning, students can describe and analyze social functions, the generic structure,
the language feature, as well as the grammar used in this kind of text. And students
will also learn how to rearange a good paragraph of legend text.

B. MAIN SECTION

1) Learning Outcomes
In Learning Activity you will learn the following competencies:

a) Attitude
b) Knowledge
c) Skill
1. To identify and explore the language features of legend
2. To identify and explore the generic structure of legend
3. To identify the explicit and implicit meaning, and find moral value from a
text
4. To Arrange the jumbled paragraphs into a good order
5. To deliver the legend fluently based on video

2) Learning Materials And Learning Activities

Task 1

Watch these video and fill the table bellow

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck3BkFLabZE

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItN0t3ld-AM

Video 1 Video 2
What is the title of the video?
Who are the characters of the
story?
How are the the characters of the
story?
Where did the story happen?
 What are the problems of the story?
What is the moral value of the story?

a. What is Legend

 Narrative text is a text that tells a story. They can be imaginary, factual, or
combination of both. One kind of narrative text is legend.
 A legend is astory associated with people or a nation.
 A legend is a narrative that is partly true and partly imaginary about a particular
person, event, place, or natural feature.
 A legend is a story from the past that many people believe but cannot be proved
to be true
b. The Social Function of Narrative Text Legend

 The social function of narrative text is to entertain or to amuse the readers about
the story.
 The social function of legend is to present the story of human actions in such a
way that they are perceived by the readers to be true
c. The Generic Structure of Narrative Text Legend

 Orientation
The stage of orientation tells ‘who is who and where’. This is to say that the stage
specifies who takes part in the story. The participants may be human or non-
human beings, such as animals and things. The stage also indicates the location,
namely the place where the story takes place and the time when the story
happens. In brief, orientation is an opening paragraph where the characters of
the story are introduced.
 Complication/crisis
The stage of complication treats the crisis or climax in the story. This is the part
of the story where something goes wrong and becomes a serious problem. The
crisis is of great interest and suspense. This stage is where the problems in the
story developed.
 Resolution
The resolution stage explains efforts taken to solve the problem.
 Reorientation
 This stage is optional. It is the conclusion of the story or closes the story by
additional remarks. It is where the lesson from the story is stated.
(Source: Ahmad Husein & Anni Holila Pulungan, 2017 & Otong Setiawan Dj.,
2013)
d. The Grammar and Language Features of Narrative Text Legend

The following are the language features of narrative text.

  Use simple past tense.(+) V2 .e.g. walked, ran, turned into, swallowed, etc
(-) did not + V1 .e.g. did not allow, did not admit, etc
.(?) Did + subject + V1 .e.g. Did he remember me?
 Use temporal conjunction.Once upon a time, one day, a long time ago, etc.
 Use direct and indirect speech
Direct speech: Malin Kundang said: “Mom, I plan to go sailing away”
Indirect speech: Malin Kundang said that he planned to go sailing away
 Adverbialphrase: in the river, at the mountain, etc.
 Passive voice: was cursed, were trimmed, etc.
 Use saying verbs, thinking verbs, and action verbs.
There are many kinds of verbs that you should know. Pay attention to the
following kinds of verbs!
 Linking verbs. They connect a noun with words that identify or describe
the noun. Examples: belong, get, look, appear, be (is, are).
 Relating Verbs. They link the subject and the rest of the
sentences. Examples: classify, divide, consist, and group.
 Behavioral Verbs. They are verbs of physiological and psychological
behavior of living things. Examples: breathe, feed, snore, smile, and dream.
 Saying Verbs. They are verbs of talking in direct speech.Examples: say, speak,
tell, ask, explain, reply, answer, whisper,shout, and scream.
 Action Verbs/Material Verbs/Doing Verbs. They are verbs of doing.
Example: go, write, build, make, create, etc.
 Mental Verbs/ ThinkingVerbs. They are verbs of sense: feeling, thinking,
and perceiving. Example: like, love, hate, enjoy,understand, believe,see, watch,
hear, listen,

3) Task 2

Read the text carefully, determining and coloring grammar language features
of the text!

THE LEGEND OF MALIN KUNDANG

A long time ago, in a small villagenear the beach in West Sumatra, a woman
and her son lived. They were Malin Kundang and her mother. Her mother wasa
single parent because Malin Kundang’s father had passed away when he was a baby.
Malin Kundang had to live hard with his mother.

Malin Kundang was a healthy, dilligent, and strong boy. He usually went to sea
to catch fish. After getting fish he would bring it to his mother, or sold the
caught fish in the town. One day, when Malin Kundang was sailing, he saw a
merchant’s ship which was being raided by a small band of pirates. He helped
the merchant. With his brave and power, Malin Kundang defeated the pirates.
The merchant was so happy and thank to him. In return the merchant asked
 Malin Kundang to sail with him. To get a better life, Malin Kundang a greed. He
left his mother alone. Many years later, Malin Kundang became wealthy. He had
a huge ship and was helped by many ship crews loading trading goods.
Perfectly he had a beautiful wife too. When he wassailing his trading journey,
his ship landed on a beach near a small village. The villagers recognized
him. The news ran fast in the town. “Malin Kundang has become rich and now he
is here”, shouted an old woman. She ran to the beach to meet the new rich
merchant. She was Malin Kundang’s mother .She wanted to hug him, released her
sadness of being lonely after so long time. Unfortunately, when the mother came,
Malin Kundang who wasin front of his well-dressed wife and his ship crews
denied meeting that old lonely woman. For three times her mother begged Malin
Kundang and for three times he yelled at her. At last Malin Kundang said to her
“Enough, old woman! I have never had a mother like you, a dirty and ugly
woman!”After that he ordered his crews to set sail. He would leave the old mother
again but in that time she was full of both sadness and angriness.

Finally, enraged, she cursed Malin Kundang that he would turn into a
stone if he didn’t apologize. Malin Kundang just laughed and really set sail. In the
quiet sea, suddenly a thunder storm came. His huge ship was wreckedand it was too
late for Malin Kundang to apologize. He was thrown by the wave out of his ship.
He fellon a small island. It was really too late for him to avoidhis curse. Suddenly,he
turnedinto a stone

Grammar and language features

Text malin kundang

 Simple Past Tense

 Temporal Conjunction

 Direct Speech

 Adverbial Phrase

 Saying Verbs

 Mental Verbs/ ThinkingVerbs

 Passive Voice

4. Determining the Generic structure above. Fill in the tables bellow

Generic structure Paragraph
Orientation
Complication
Resolution
Re-orientation
5. Task 3
 Work in pairs, cut these text boxes and arrange the jumbled paragraph into the good story
with the given title, Remember your story should be chronological!.

Suta is afraid, but he is worried about the princess, so he takes a big stick and hit the
snake on its head.
The snake hisses in pain and finally dies.

The princess is sad to hear her father’s answer, especially after her father throws Suta in
jail forhaving
the nerve to ask her to marry him.

In jail, Suta is not given anything to eat or drink. Hearing that, the princess makes a plan
to break her
lover out of jail. They succeed and they run far away. They stop near a river. There, they
get married and
start a new family.

“Thank you, Suta. You’ve saved my life,” says the princess.

The place where Suta and the princess raise their family is called Baturaden.
Baturmeans servant, while raden means noble. Nowadays, Baturaden is a very
interesting tourism spot. It’s located at the foothill of Mount Slamet in Purwokerto,
Central Java.

“No need for that, princess. It’s my duty as your father’s servant to help you.”

Since that day, Suta and the princess become good friends. They even fall in love with
each other, so the princess tells Suta to go to her father and ask his permission to merry
her. The king is furious to hear about their plans.

Suta is a servant in a kingdom in Central Java. His duty is to look after the king’s horses.
Suta liked to take a walk after doing his chores

One day, when Suta is walking near a lake, he hears a woman screaming, so Suta hurries
to find the source of the scream. Finally, he arrives near a big tree. He sees the king’s
daughter screaming. Above her there’s a giant snake about to strike.

“Suta is just a servant while you are my daughter, the princess. It is unacceptable for you
to marry a servant.”

THE STRUCTURE Example

Suta is a servant in a kingdom in Central Java. His duty is to look after

the king’s horses. Suta liked to take a walk after doing his chores
ORIENTATION

C. CLOSING SECTION

Summery

Refelection

Reflecive Summery

1) In this activity I have learned…..

2) The key features of legend include…
a.
b
c.
3) What I need to improve / learn more….
Formative Text

Text 1
Choose the right answer, a, b, c, d or e.
This text is for no. 1 until 4
Once upon a time in west java, there lived a king who had a beautiful daughter.Her name was Dayang
Sumbi.She liked weaving very much.Once she was weaving a cloth when one of her tools fell to the ground.She
was very tired, at the same time she was too lazy to take it.Then she just shouted out loudly.“Anybody there!
Bring me my tool.I will give you special present.If you are female.I will consider you as my sister if you are
male, I will marry you”Suddenly a male dog, named was Tumang came.He brought her the falling tool.Dayang
Sumbi was very surprised.She regretted her words but she could not deny it.So she had to marry Tumang and
leave her father.Then they lived in a small village.Several months later they had a son.His name was
Sangkuriang.He was a handsome and healthy boy.Sangkuriang liked hunting very much, especially deer.He
often hunted to the wood using his arrow.When he went hunting, Tumang was always with him.One day
Dayang Sumbi wanted to have deer’sheart so she asked Sangkuriang to hunt for a deer.Then Sangkuriang
went to the wood with his arrow and his faithful dog.Tumang, but after several days in the wood, Sangkuriang
could not find any deer.Sangkuriang was exhausted and desperate.He did not want to disappoint her mother,
so he killed Tumang.He did not know that Tumang was his father.Tumang’sheart was given to her mother.But
Dayang Sumbi knew that it was Tumang’s heart.Shewas so angry that she could not control her emotion.She
hit Sangkuriang at his head and Sangkuriang was wounded.There was a scar on his head.She also repelled her
son.Sangkuriang left her mother in sadness.
Many years passed and Sangkuriang becamea strong young man.He wandered everywhere.One day
he arrived at his own village but he did not realize it.There he met Dayang Sumbi.At the time Dayang Sumbi
was given an eternal beauty by God so she stayed young forever.Both of them did know each other.So they fell
in love and then they decided to marry.But then Dayang Sumbi recognized a scar on Sangkuriang’s head.She
knew that Sangkuriang was his son.It was impossible for them to marry.She told him but he did not believe
her.He wished that they married soon.So Dayang Sumbi gave very difficult condition.She asked Sangkuriangto
build a lake and a boat in one night! She said she needed that for honeymoon.

Sangkuriang agreed.With the help of genie and spirits, Sangkuriang tried to build them.By midnight
he had completed the lake by building a dam in Citarum River.Then he started making the boat.It was almost
dawn when he almost finished it.Meanwhile Dayang Sumbi kept watching on him.She was very worried when
she knew this.So she made lights in the east.Then the spiritis thought that was already dawn.It was time for
them to leave.They left Sangkuriang alone.Without their help he could not finish the boat.Sangkuriang was
angry.He kicked the boat.Then the boat turned upside down.It later became Mounth Tangkuban Perahu.This
meant an upside-down boat.From a distant the mount really looks like an upside down boat

1. The text is about ......

A. A wrath son B .West java’s tales.
C. Tumang a Dog husband D. ThelegendofTangkubanPerahu.
E.Dayang Sumbi’s rejection to marry Sangkuriang
2. What moral value can we learn from the story?
A.People must keep their words all the time
B.Promising too easily brings you to problem
C. Doing good things is a must inlife
D. We should not hate our descendants.
E. Statements must in line with actions
3. The complication starts when....
 A. Sangkuriang arrived at his own village
B. Tumang came bringing Dayang Sumbi fallen thing
C. Dayang Sumbi asked Sangkuriang to find deer’s heart
D. Dayang Sumbi and Sangkuriang fell in love and decided to get married
E.DayangSumbiaskedSangkuriangtobuildalakeandaboatinonenight
4. When he went hunting, Tumang was always with him. The word him refers to .......
A. Dayang Sumbi
B. Dog
C. Sangkuriang
D. Deer
E. Dayang Sumbi’s husband

Text 2

This text is for no. 5 until 8

A long time ago, there lived on the island of Bali a giant-like creature named Kbo Iwo.The
people of Bali used to say that Kbo Iwo was everything, a destroyer as well as acreator.He was
satisfied with the meal, but this meant for the Balinese people enough food for a thousand
men.Difficulties arose when for the first time the barns were almost empty and the new
harvest was still a long way off.This made Kbo Iwo wild with great anger.In his hunger, he
destroyed all the houses and even all the temples.It made the Balinese turn to rage.So, they came
together to plan steps to oppose this powerful giant by using his stupidity.They asked Kbo Iwo to
build them a very deep well, and rebuild all the houses and temples he had destroyed.After they fed
Kbo Iwo, he began to dig a deep hole.

One day he had eaten too much, he fell asleep in the hole.The oldest man in the village gave
a sign, and the villagers began to throwthe limestone they had collected before into the
hole.The limestone made the water inside the hole boiling.Kbo Iwo was buried alive.Then the
water in the well rose higher and higher until at last it overflowed and formed Lake Batur.The
mound of earth dug from the well by Kbo Iwo is known as Mount Batur

5. According to the story, if Kbo Iwo were never existed in Bali Island, what would
happen?
A. There would be no Bali Island
B. Bali People would never be angry
C. All Balinese would live in a prosperous way
D. W ecouldn’t see the beauty of Lake Batur
E. Mount Batur would not be a sacred place now

6. “So, they came together to plan steps to opposethis powerful giant......”

(Paragraph 2). The antonym of the word “oppose “is....
A. Support
B. Defeat
C. Turn Against
D. Beat
E. Change

7. Arrange these jumbled sentences to make a good narrative paragraph

1) Once upon a time, there reined in East Java aking named Sindureja
2) .Sidupaksa had a very beautiful wife.
3) He had a prime minister named Sidupaksa
4) They lived in complete happiness
5) Each day she tried to think a way to separate Sidupaksa from his wif
 6) Sidupaksa loved his wife deeply
7) However, Sidupaksa’s mother didn’t like her daughter-in-law.
The best arrangement is ...
A. 1-3-2-6-4-7-5
B. 1-4-6-3-7-5-2
C. 1-2-4-7-6-3-5
D. 1-6-5-3-2-4-7
E. 1-6-4-3-7-5-2
8. Arrange these jumbled sentences to make a good narrative paragraph
1) The King of Kuripan was very wise
2) Many princeswanted to marry her
3) Once upon a time in Lombok, there was a Kingdom namedKuripan
4) The best one would be Mandalika’s husband
5) To choose the one that would be the son in law, the King had an arrow
shooting competition
6) He had a daughter, named Mandalika who was very beautiful.
The best arrangement is....
A. 3-1-2-6-4-5
B. 3-6-2-5-4-1
C. 3-1-6-2-4-5
D. 3-6-1-2-5-4
E. 3-1-6-2-5-4

Key Answer

1) D
2) A
3) E
4) C
5) D
6) A
7) A
8) E