Thursday, August 30, 2018

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 College in Boston. He is on staff as adjunct faculty at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale. 
Mr. Mulhern was an AP Exam Consultant and Teacher Mentor for the National Math and Science Initiative (2012-2020) and a Reader for the Advanced Placement English Exam (College Board) from 2011 through 2019. He is also a freelance editor, publisher, writer, and web curator. 

James Mulhern's writing (fiction, poetry, nonfiction) has appeared in literary journals and anthologies over three hundred times. His writing appears in over one hundred publications (both print and electronic) on Amazon.com. His work has been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, India, South Africa, Singapore, Japan, and Australia. He has been recognized several times: Finalist for the Tuscany Prize in Catholic Fiction, recipient of a fully paid writing fellowship to Oxford University, Runner-Up for the InkTears Short Story Award, longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize (an international publishing prize), two Honorable Mentions for the Short Story America Prize, nominee for a Pushcart Prize in Fiction, recipient of the Kirkus Star (awarded to books of exceptional merit and given to only ten percent of books reviewed each year), a Readers' Favorite Book Award winner, a Notable Best Indie Book Award winner, author of a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, a Red Ribbon Winner for the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, twice a Finalist for the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, and shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021 for his poetry.

One hundred percent of the proceeds from his publications are donated to charities or a scholarship for an ATCHS graduating senior.

A Few Published Poems:

https://thegalwayreview.com/2020/01/17/james-mulhern-piano/ 
 
https://thegalwayreview.com/2020/01/13/james-mulhern-brother/ 

https://thegalwayreview.com/2019/12/21/james-mulhern-catherine/ 

https://thegalwayreview.com/2019/12/07/james-mulhern-the-crosswalk/ 

https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/copacetic/

A Few Published Stories: 

https://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2016/08/keep-calm-and-carry-on-by-james-mulhern.html

https://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2015/11/assumptions-by-james-mulhern.html


http://writingdisorder.com/james-mulhern/


https://boomerlitmag.com/james-mulhern/

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

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.

Saturday, August 11, 2018

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.