Case Study of Senior High School Students’ (SMA) Learning Explanatory Text During Pandemic Era

This case study focuses on learning to write explanatory texts for Eleventh Grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Pecangaan during the pandemic era. This research uses descriptive qualitative method, with a case study strategy. Data collection techniques used in this study are observation, document analysis, and in-depth interviews. The results showed that at the Lesson Plan stage, writing explanatory texts, the teacher carried out an assessment of the syllabus. Based on the syllabus, the teacher prepares a Lesson Plan. The Indonesian teacher at SMA Negeri 1 Pecangaan already has a complete set of learning tools. The learning tools are: (1) syllabus; (2) Writing a Lesson Plan explanatory text with components in accordance with Regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture (Permendikbud) Number 22 of 2016; and (3) Graduate Competency Standards, Core competency, and Baic Competency analysis. At the implementation stage of the learning process, explanatory text learning applies the Problem-Based Learning model with a text-based scientific approach. Meanwhile, at the learning assessment stage, it refers to Regulation of the Minister of Education and Culture (Permendikbud) Number 23 of 2013 which emphasizes the assessment of the learning process and learning outcomes in writing explanatory texts.