Assignment 26 Elana Ehl

I'm going to say this bluntly. Stop trying to please the Anya's of the class and focus more on the people who are in your class and really need improvement, like me. If students are already to the level of smarts needed for the class and they know it, don't try and make it to their benefit while leaving others behind, let them show that they are good students and not just students who rely on their intelligence to get them by with minimal effort. I started your class as a crappy 5 paragraph author who really didn't know much about being original, and I learned a lot and improved a lot. But there were countless days where I was just lost in what we were going over, especially in the discussion of Writing with Style. I am definitely not a very vocal person when I don't understand something, so stopping class to have something explained really was never an option because I didn't want to be viewed as inferior in intelligence to  the Anya's of the class. I feel like I could have learned more and improved faster and on a larger scale if you had geared the class more towards the "dumber" people of the class instead of moving fast and letting the students who were already at the level needed to successfully get a 5 control the class's direction and pace.

Basically stop trying to please the already uber intelligent people and focus more on the people who need to learn not just review.

Thanks for being one of the best English teachers ever!