Mulhern's English Site

Print out, read, and annotate "Once More to the Lake": http://fd.valenciacollege.edu/file/jcarpen1/Week_3_EBWhiteLakeEssay.pdf

  ENC1101   SPRING 2019                                           Instructor: James Mulhern Email: james.mulhern@browardschools.com .   Please do not email assignments to me.   You must give all assignments to me in hard-copy form.

 ENC1101  English Composition I  Instructor: James Mulhern Email: james.mulhern@browardschools.com .   Please do not email assignments to me.   You must give all assignments to me in hard-copy form.

ENC 1101 --PowerPoint Group Presentation on assigned group speech due Tuesday, November 13th; individual reading and note taking on all speeches also due on this day; Reflection Essay due on November 14th; MyLabsPlus completed by November 15th. ENG IV --PowerPoint Group Presentation on assigned group speech due Tuesday, November 13th; individual reading and note taking on  all  speeches also due on this day; Reflection Essay due on November 14th; Word List Four due on November 15th. You have known about all the above assignments for a long time. They have been posted on the board. You have been given explanations, handouts, and many reminders. No late work will be accepted. Work hard to succeed.

You will read all of the short speeches listed at the bottom of this post. Take notes on the main argument, important points, and examples of effective rhetoric. You also will be assigned to a group so that you and your partners can lead a discussion and create a PowerPoint presentation (flash drive) on one of the speeches.

Due November 15, 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, names of famous people); nevertheless, you should know them. 

Click on the following link. Print out the speech; then read and annotate it. How and why is it effective? President Obama on the Death of Bin Laden: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead

Due October 16 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, names of famous people); nevertheless, you should know them. 

Avoiding Common Subject and Verb Errors What are subjects and verbs (predicates)? Verb forms Verb tenses Verb tense, voice, and mood Subject and verb agreement

Check out these links, where you can see short film clips, as well as read about life during Chaucer's time (approx. 1340-1400) and the Middle Ages (approx. 476-1492).

Due September 25, 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, names of famous people); nevertheless, you should know them. 

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...

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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).