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About the Teacher

Mr. James Mulhern has taught for over thirty-four years in various settings--college, high school, middle school, at-risk, and alternative environments. He has taught English, Writing, Math, History, Science, and a job skills course. Mr. Mulhern has editorial experience working for Houghton Mifflin Company (textbooks and  The American Heritage   Dictionary,  Third Edition) and  Ploughshares,  a literary magazine, both based in Boston. He also worked for National Evaluation Systems, a teacher test publisher in Amherst, Massachusetts, and for Clark Boardman Callaghan, a law publishing house in New York City. He was employed in the healthcare arena (unit management positions) for over ten years in New York, Massachusetts, and California. A few of the medical facilities where he worked include The Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, as well as St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, California. He taught writing and literature at Emerson...

English IV--Map of Anglo-Saxon Invasions/Settlements of Britain; Map of Modern Europe

First-Day Video and Forms--Parents Need to Input Information Online (see link below).

********For Parents to Fill Out-- Back-to-School Forms Wizard: https://scaweb.browardschools.com/BTS/ Parents--Be sure to print out the form at the end of the process that verifies you have input the necessary information. Your child must bring this printout to his/her teacher asap.

English IV--Word List One

Due September 5, 2018  Directions: Copy the vocabulary words. Most of them have been taken from your textbook; some words/terms may not be typical vocabulary words (for example: names of places,allusions to famous things, literary termsf); nevertheless, you should know them.  Look up the definitions and  parts of speech  of each word. Write both in your notebook. ( You must handwrite this assignment;  not type, or cut and paste). 

English IV Syllabus

English IV Mr. James Mulhern james.muhern@browardschools.com

English IV--Beowulf Notes

Handwritten notes due on Thursday August 16th, beginning of class, MLA heading (google MLA heading format), titled " Beowulf Notes." Begin copying below--"Cultural Background" to end. If you do not turn in handwritten notes you receive a grade of zero. No late work ever accepted in this class (except in the case of an excused absence). Background for Anglo-Saxon England:  http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/celts.htm   http://www.localhistories.org/saxonlife.html --  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/anglo-saxon_life/  --  https://oldenglishteaching.arts.gla.ac.uk/Units/2_Life_in.html  (links to great pages on Anglo-Saxon life. You can also google Anglo Saxon and keywords to find more information.) The literature of the Middle Ages dates from 500 AD to 1500 AD. Beowulf,  created/composed sometime between 750 and 900 AD, was an oral composition. It was first written down in approximately 1000 AD.