Mulhern's English Site

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 li...

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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.

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.

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.

                                                        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.

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).

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.

You will complete the following tasks.

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

Read "The Minister's Black Veil." Click on this link: https://pdcrodas.webs.ull.es/fundamentos/HawthorneTheMinistersBlackVeil.pdf

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.

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:

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).