Information for Parents/Guardians About Mr. Mulhern's Classes and How to Keep Apprised of Student Progress

Information for Parents/Guardians About Mr. Mulhern’s Classes

Please note that Mr. Mulhern uses this website because it is a better vehicle than Canvas for students and parents to keep up-to-date on all student work. Canvas is used for important information only. There is a Search Box in the upper left corner of this website, where you can type in anything related to English. Doing so may help students prepare for tests, review ideas, and learn new concepts and techniques (typing in the Search Box "Grammar," "SAT," "FAST," "Analysis," "Writing," "Annotating," "College Essay," and various other terms related to an English course are just a few examples of terms that will reveal posts with helpful information. Names of authors and their works may also be found through the Search Box. (Students can also anticipate possible future assignments by scrolling through the website or using the Search Box). What follows is a list of ways to stay informed about your student's progress:

Mindfulness Quotes--Choose one, reflect, and write your thoughts. You will not be asked to share unless you want to do so.

Inspiring Quotes from the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson--Link

Inspiring Quotes from the Work of Henry David Thoreau--Link

Online Tutoring for the FAST or Anything Else Related to English (For example, the Digital PSAT/SAT)

ATC Students and Students from Any Other Secondary School or College:

To help students prepare for the first "progress monitoring" session of the FAST, I will be tutoring during the summer months. Every Sunday, send your request for a time and day during the upcoming week in which you tell me when you would like to meet. I will do my best to meet your needs and then send you a link to an online Tutoring session. The first progress-monitoring part of the FAST will take place on September 17. 2024. Retakes will be given on September 24, 2024.

ENC1101--Analysis Prompt for President Obama's Speech on the Death of bin Laden. Started in Class on September 4, 2024. To be Finished the Following Week.

After the Storm, Boris Kustodiev (1921)

Analyze President Obama's speech on the death of bin Laden. Identify the President's purpose for delivering this speech and then explain how he effectively utilizes rhetorical devices to support and achieve his objective.

ENC1101--Classwork and Homework. Assigned September 16, 2024. Due Friday, September 20, 2024.

Continue working with your partners on the collaborative essay, Analysis of Obama's Speech on Bin Laden. Be sure all of you have printed copies of the document and an electronic copy on each of your laptop computers. Use the MLA format for this essay.

English III--Read "Last Child in the Woods" on pages 300-302 in the yellow and green literature book. Assigned September 17. Due September 19.

Read "Lost Child in the Woods" on page 300 in the gold and green literature textbook, Into Literature, on the blue table in the back of the room (next to the filing cabinets). Do not take these books out of the room. Before the end of the period, place the books back in neat piles on the blue table. This book is also available electronically on your laptop.

Collaborative Essay Directions

                                                       

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2. Meet with your partner in class and, if needed, in Google Chat, Google Meet, or Zoom. One of you, a facilitator, must set up the meetings and convey the information to your peers for the Google or Word document you can all collaborate on. You will also have time to work on this assignment in class.

ENC1101--Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat Speech by Winston Churchill (1940). Posted on September 5, 2024. Due on September 10, 2024.

Cut and paste this speech by Winston Churchill into a Word document, then print it out and annotate it. When taking notes, refer to the post on this website, "How to Analyze and Evaluate an Argument" (see the Rubrics tab at the top of this website and the links on annotating a text at the end of this post).

ENC1101--9/11 Address to the Nation by President George W. Bush. Posted on September 5, 2024. Due on September 12, 2024.

Cut and paste this speech by President Bush into a Word document, then print it out and annotate it. When annotating refer to the post on this website, "How to Analyze and Evaluate an Argument." (See the Rubrics tab at the top of the website as well as the annotating links at the bottom of this post.) 

Also, complete the "Shorter Analysis of a Text Activity": https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2019/11/analysis-of-text-shorter-version.html. Please type the Shorter Analysis Activity in MLA format as usual.

All Classes--Analysis Activity for Texts. (Only do when assigned)

You will complete the following tasks.

English III--"Walden"--Close Reading Activity. Posted on September 5, 2024. Due on September 11, 2024.

 

https://tea4avcastro.tea.state.tx.us/thl/ENG3.W3.L3andL4.where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for.pdf

English III--"The Minister's Black Veil." Assignment posted on September 4, 2024. Due on September 10, 2024.

Read "The Minister's Black Veil." Click on this link:

https://pdcrodas.webs.ull.es/fundamentos/HawthorneTheMinistersBlackVeil.pdf

English III--Patrick Henry's Speech in the Virginia Convention. Assigned in class on September 4, 2024. Due on September 5, 2024.

Read pages 260-267 in the orange textbook. Answer the questions on page 267. Take a picture of your assignment and upload it to your laptop. Keep your finished questions in your binder. This assignment could be collected at any time.

English III--Read "Balboa," a short story in Unit One of the Electronic Textbook. Do the assignments specified in the post. Due September 3, 2024. Posted August 29, 2024.

Read "Balboa" in Unit 1 of the electronic textbook. (The text is also in the yellow and green textbook at the back of the room.) Then create the following Word documents:

ENC1101--Analyze President Obama's Speech on the Death of Bin Laden. Due September 3, 2024. Posted on August 29, 2024.

1. Read the text. Then annotate the speech below in a Word document. 
2. Create a second Word Document: Questions on Obama's Bin Laden Speech. For your "Question" document, this time you should answer the questions after the text below. You may copy the questions, but you do not have to. Answer in complete sentences with quotes (when appropriate) from the text as support for your responses (include the paragraph number in a parenthetical citation after any quoted text--see the tab at the top of this website for the correct format of citations.). Not all questions need quotes. You determine when a quote would be good support for your response. After the questions, create a subhead for a second section of this Word document: Vocabulary. Type any unknown words--at least five (with their definitions; include parts of speech).