EWRT1A27: midterm questions

Here are some of the results from the midterm questions you answered last Tuesday.

• Seven students said that Freire's essay was their least favorite. Yet five said it was their most favorite. Seven students also said that Anzaldúa's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" was the text that they liked the least. Still, three students said it was the one they liked the most. Six students loved Wolf's "The Beauty Myth," while three said it was their least favorite reading. Almost every text was mentioned as someone's most favorite at least once.
• A few students said they didn't find group work helpful, but a few also said that it was very helpful and gave them new ideas. Group work is actually part of the De Anza 1A curriculum, so it isn't going away. What can you do to make it so you get more out of it?
• As for grammar, there was no real trend, but I was surprised by how many of you said you wanted to work on grammar concepts that we have already discussed, such as mixed constructions and pronoun agreement. This implies that a few of you don't feel like you understand these concepts yet. I don't think we'll go over these concepts again, but maybe they can come up in our sentences.
• A few students said they wanted more time with in-class writing. Just so you know, I used to give students less time to write in class and students wrote just as much. Again, I have seen a trend over the years with students being less skilled with in-class writing. So we will continue to work on it, but maybe I can give you a bit more time than twenty minutes for in-class reading responses.