English 1C Course Evaluation
I am always learning how to be a better teacher and would appreciate your honest and constructive feedback.  This is an anonymous feedback form.  I will not read your feedback until after final grades are in. Basically, it would help me to know what aspects of the class you would advise me to keep the same when I teach it again.  How could the class be improved?  What worked well for you?   Feel free to write on the back or attach an additional page.  

The readings (Interesting?  Too challenging?  Not challenging enough? Which ones woud you keep and which would you lose?)

•	Rhetoric of Argument
•	Field Notes from a Catastrophe
•	“Doomsday Fears and Modern Life” by Podhoretz
•	Thoreau excerpts (“Huckleberries” and Walden)
•	“Song of the Redwood-Tree" by Walt Whitman
•	"The Ecology of Magic" by David Abram 
•	The excerpt from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold 
•	“Everything is a Human Being" by Alice Walker
•	"Millions Join Earth Day Observances Across the Nation"
•	The excerpt from Blessed Unrest 
•	The excerpt from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
•	The excerpt from Planet of Weeds
•	"Fecundity" by Annie Dillard

Was there another type of reading you would have liked me to include?  Anything you found of interest in American Earth that we could have read? Suggestions from other sources?

The essay assignments (Were the assignments clear?  Too difficult? Interesting?)
•	The summary of Podhoretz

•	The definition analysis paper 

•	The solutions (research) paper

•	The final exam

The blogs (Did you prefer blogs to journals or handwritten discussion questions?  Did you prefer doing the blogs to doing two more essays for the class?  Were the comments helpful or interesting? What did you learn, if anything, from doing the blogs?  Do you think they helped your reading and/or writing skills?)

The homework assignments (Were there too many?  Were they useful?)

The error logs (Did you feel you improved your grammar or word choice this semester?  Did the optional individualized approach to grammar instruction work for you?  What could have helped you improve your grammar more?)

The grading (Fair? Transparent?)

In-class discussion

In-class group work

The teacher’s explanations in class

The teacher’s explanations one-on-one

How would you rate your interest in the environmental theme at the start of the semester?
Very interested              Somewhat interested           Not too interested

How would you rate your interest in the environmental theme now?
Very interested              Somewhat interested           Not too interested             Tired of it

Would you suggest that I use an environmental theme in 1C again?  Why or why not?

What could I add or change about the class or my teaching to improve things?

What did you learn in this class?  What was most worthwhile?