This research aims to determine the effect of the Case Based Learning learning model on the ability to write short story texts in class XI of YAPIM BIRU-BIRU Vocational School. The population of this study involved all students in class XI TKJ SMK YAMPIM BIRU-BIRU totaling 121 students, using a simple random sampling technique. The sample in this study consisted of 30 students in the control class using the conventional model, and 30 students in the experimental class using the Case Based Learning model. The research method used is a quantitative experimental research method. The instrument used is a description test instrument. Data collection in this research was obtained through tests on student learning outcomes in writing short story texts. Based on the test results, the results of this research can be concluded as follows. First, the ability to write short story texts using conventional models in class XI TKJ-2 is in the very low category with a percentage of 53.5 out of 30 students. Second, the ability to write short story texts using the Case Based Learning model in class XI TKJ-2 is in the very good category with a percentage of 83.83 out of 30 students. Thus, it can be said that the score for the ability to write short story texts in the experimental class is higher than in the control class. Third, through hypothesis testing, it shows that the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha), because the calculated t is greater than the t table, namely 11.864, greater than 1.699. Thus, it can be concluded that the Case Based Learning model influences the ability to write short story texts for class XI TKJ SMK YAPIM BIRU-BIRU.

The Mangongkal Holi tradition which is carried out at each event makes the writer interested in researching it because in its implementation there are symbols and behaviors/activities that are interconnected and have their own meaning. What is the importance of the Mangongkal Holi tradition for the Toba Batak people so that this tradition must be carried out. This study uses descriptive analysis with qualitative research, which emphasizes the perspectives, ways of life, tastes or expressions of emotions and beliefs from the people studied regarding the problems studied which are also data. In this study the authors used a descriptive research method with a qualitative method. Therefore, the research subjects were traditional leaders, families who carry out the Mangongkal Holi ceremony, and local residents in North Sumatra. And the object of this research is the symbolic meaning of the Mangongkal Holi ceremony for the Toba Batak people in North Sumatra. Purposive sampling technique used to take informants.