I often feel that community college teachers are expected to teach an overwhelming assortment of subjects in one composition class. I was at a meeting with other English teachers at my college today, and the totally unfocused discussion on various problems reflected the confusion I often feel. One teacher insisted that we shouldn't be "teaching grammar" because the students should already know it. We have a hefty reader which introduces 10 rhetorical strategies (narrative, description, etc). Students write a 10 page I-Search paper based on data they gather from interviews. They also have to do 10 summary and response papers. I give fairly challenging open book comprehension tests to get them to read the essays and learn new vocabulary. I like to think my students are learning, but it's hard to tell if it carries over. I would love to teach a class just on the structure of English. It sounds wonderful. -- Christine Reintjes Martin [log in to unmask] ----Original Message Follows---- From: "John E. Dews" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/