Thursday, August 17, 2023

Important Reminders for All Classes

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

  • Pay attention to the blue dates within the posts. Ignore the black date above the post.
  • You must follow the exact directions in each post. If you do not, points will be taken off your work.

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

You can keep up-to-date about how your student is doing in class through the following methods:

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

Collaborative Essay Assignment. Due at the beginning of class.


  1. 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.

ENC1102--Collaborative Analytical Essay--Love Theme in Short Stories. Assignment is due on April 3, 2024. (You may choose to do this assignment on your own.)

  1. Collaborative Essay--Love Theme in Short Stories

  2. Listen and write down the names of the peers you will be working with on this assignment. If you choose to write this essay with peers, see this link: https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2020/10/collaborative-essay.html (Remember, you may choose to write this essay on your own.)

English III--Read and Annotate the Handout, "Growing Up Asian in America." Also create questions (must be question types I have specified in a post) and answers with textual support. Assignment is due April 16, 2024. You already have the handout.

 


Read and annotate the text (I distributed the handout); complete the assignment of a handwritten MLA-style document for important reading questions (see Canvas and also the post on question types on this website). You must create the answers and provide textual support. Also, include a vocabulary section--at least five words defined, not those defined by the book editor. You must create questions and answers modeled after those specific question types in Canvas, Exercise Two (not random questions). You should also have an annotated paper document of the story. (Take pictures of your documents and upload them onto your laptop computer.)

English III--"The Jungle." Posted on March 19, 2024. Due April 5, 2024. Do not forget to do the assignments on the handout that was distributed in class. Directions and due dates for different readings are on the handout.

                                       

You can find this reading selection in the electronic textbook, Unit 5.

Mulhern's "English likes . . ." Mantras--Preparation for the PSAT/SAT--Study to Help on the Tests. Copy and paste these mantras into a Word document, print them out, and place the document in you binder. If you write the mantras out, you will remember them better and be more successful on the SAT. You need not write every word; you can make the explanations more concise as long as you understand them.


Complete this phrase ("English likes . . . ) as many times as you can with the "English mantras" (concepts, principles, generalizations) you have learned. Try to create more mantras:

ENC1102--"A&P" Short Story Assignment. Due March 15, 2024. Assignment was posted on February 29, 2024. Also remember the other assignments that were given verbally and written on the whiteboard. In addition, you received handouts of the due dates for those assignments on February 29 or March 1.


Read and annotate the text, as well as complete the usual assignment of a Word document for important reading questions (Canvas) and answers (with vocabulary). You should also, as usual, have a Word document for the annotations or a printed-out copy of the story annotated.

English III--"The Pit and the Pendulum." Assignment posted on February 29, 2024. Assignment is due on March 19, 2024. Do not forget to do the assignments on the handout that was distributed in class on February 29 or March 1. Directions and due dates for these readings are on the handout.


Click on this link for the reading selection:

https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Poe/Pit_Pendulum.pdf

English III--"To Build a Fire" Assignment. Posted on February 29. Due on March 15, 2024. Do not forget to do the assignments on the handout that was distributed in class on February 29 or March 1. Directions and due dates for these other readings are on the handout.


This text is in the electronic textbook (Unit 5).

ENC1102: Essay--Analysis of Literature. Assignment was posted on February 26, 2024. Assignment is due on March 5, 2024.



Write an essay comparing and contrasting the theme of evil in two short stories we have read in this class. Explain the nature of evil in each of the readings. How does each writer's use of literary elements contribute to the type of evil he/she is describing? What is the message of each story? Focus on similarities and differences in the stories. As appropriate, include analysis of how different literary elements contribute to your thesis. Late work is never accepted in this class. You get a grade of zero. Remember, plagiarism is a serious offense. A plagiarism program will be utilized. You may write this paper collaboratively. See the following link: https://scholarmulhern.blogspot.com/2020/10/collaborative-essay.html

ENC1102--"Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" Be sure this assignment is completed by Monday, February 26, 2024. FYI: This assignment was already posted (ENC1102--Future Assignments) and due February 16.


https://cshshonorsiii.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/where-are-you-going.pdf

English III Announcement--Digital SAT Preparation begins February 20, 2024.

 PREPARE FOR THE NEW DIGITAL SAT (MARCH 6)


Dear Scholars,

Beginning February 20, we will start preparing for the new Digital SAT, which differs greatly from the previous SAT.

English III--"Genesis of the Tenement" or "How the Other Half Lives" Assignment is due on February 15, 2024. Assignment was posted on February 8, 2024.

Read this excerpt from Jacob Riis's book on tenement life in New York City. Riis published his book in 1890 after he spent time as a police reporter in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a poor area crowded with immigrants. Click on the link.