How do i tell prof she’s giving too much work?

This class started as 9 people. after the first class, almost everyone dropped, leaving just me and one other girl. It’s a creative writing class, and each week we’re assigned:

- 3 short readings (ranging from 15 to 50 pages)

- A novel (usually under 200 pages)

- A response paragraph to these readings

- To write a new short story (3-5 pages, not bad)

- Revisions on our short story from last week

- Annotated and written feedback on another student‘s short story

Today me and this other girl got out of class. She immediately turned to me and said “this is way too much right?” Apparently she’s already fallen behind because she was sick last week and she’s panicked— I’m struggling, too.

The prof said she made edits to the syllabus when she realized so many people dropped, but it’s still a lot— the workload above continued after so many people left. I said we could try and talk to her together to tell her this is a lot of work.

Two questions, one: is it really, or am i just having a hard time? And two: how should we let her know that?