Division:
Humanities
Developmental Education

Department:
English

Contact Info:
Phone: (209) 384-6315
hundley.a@mccd.edu

Currently (*) and Previously Taught Courses:
English 84*(Learning Community)
English A
English 1A*
English 41*
English 1B
 

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"The computer is only a fast idiot, it has no imagination; it cannot originate action. It is, and will remain, only a tool to man" (American Library Association, 1964).
http://www.bartleby.com/
 

Useful Student Links for all English Courses

:Merced College Portal (student e-mail, library databases, etc.):
http://my.mccd.edu

:Capital Community College Grammar Guide:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm

:The Purdue U Online Writing Lab (OWL):
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl and http://owl.english.purdue.edu/oldindex.html

:Citing Electronic Sources: 
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

:Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Page:
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc

:Turnitin Anti-Plagiarism Website (ask professor for class i.d. and password):
http://turnitin.com/static/home.html

:Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/

:Multi-language Online Dictionaries and Translators:
http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

:Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/

:Movie Reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

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Useful Student Links for English 84:
Paragraph to Essay:

:Civil Rights Movement Heroes
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmpeople2.html

:Civil Rights Timeline 1941-1973:
 http://www.reportingcivilrights.org

:The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage:
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/script.html

:NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) Website--“Bipolar Disorder":
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm

Night by Elie Wiesel:

:Glossary and Miscellaneous Information:
http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/night/book/book_glossary_01.jhtml

:Resources for Newer Edition (Translated by Marion Wiesel):
http://www.nightthebook.com

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Useful Student Links for English A:
Basic Composition and Reading

:Funny in Farsi Iranian Revolution Background Information:
www.britannica.com/eb/article-32189/Iran  
 

:Manzanar National Historic Site (for When the Emperor Was Divine):
 www.nps.gov/manz/Expanded.htm

:When the Emperor Was Divine Reading Group Guide: http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/when_the_emperor1.asp

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

:Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse. . .":
http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translations/554.htm

:Of Mice and Men Fact Sheet:
 http://www.newi.ac.uk/englishresources/workunits/ks4/fiction/ofmicemen/llshort/factsheet.html

:Of Mice and Men Webquest:
http://www.aacps.org/aacps/boe/INSTR/CURR/COMED/HSWebQuest/OfMiceAndMen/index.htm

Homeless Family Articles from San Francisco Chronicle
 by Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer:

Monday, December 1, 2003
:SHAME OF THE CITY/'WE'RE TOGETHER'/It has been four years since the Silvers
have lived in a home. They are a strong family that must survive while living in an
aging van":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/01/MNGJ43BL3O6.DTL

 Friday, December 19, 2003
:"Silvers' plight touches hearts/Shower of gifts after homeless family's story told":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/12/19/MNGS03QL0U1.DTL

 Sunday, August 21, 2005
:"THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE A HOME/After 6 years living out of vans and trailers,
the Silver family moves into a 3-bedroom subsidized apartment and enjoys the
simple pleasures -- taking a bath, …":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/21/MNGA5EB32P1.DTL

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Useful Student Links for English 41:
College-Level Reading

:Textbook Website for English 41 Text--
Developing Critical Reading Skills,
7^th ed., Spears:

 http://www.mhhe.com/spears

:Chpt. 6 Doublespeak Internet Task:
“Life Under the Chief Doublespeak Officer” by William Lutz
http://www.dt.org/html/Doublespeak.html

:Political/Editorial Cartoons:
http://www.funnytimes.com/

http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/

:“Textbook Changes Draw Charges of Political Correctness”
by Anita Vogel FOX News 5/1/03:
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85594,00.html

:Mercury Reader "Generation X" and "Generation Y" articles:
“Reality shreds myths about Gen X” by Jennifer Jochim
www.jour.unr.edu/outpost/specials/genx.overvw1.html

:“Generation Y: They’ve arrived at work with a new attitude” by Stephanie Armour
(USA Today Nov. 6, 2005):
www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2005-11-06-gen-y_x.htm

:Assessing Websites (Chpt. 10):
www.alexa.com
 

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Useful Student Links for English 1A:
Composition and Reading 1:

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal:

:“36 Questions about the Holocaust”
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c+gvKLcMVluG&b= 394663

:“About Simon Wiesenthal”
http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=242614

: Reading Group Guide
http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=TRADE PAPER:USED:9780805210606:7.50&page=readinggroupguide

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls:

:Reading Group Guide
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/glass_castle1.asp

:“Interview with Jeannette Walls” by Rachel Kramer Bussel
http://www.gothamist.com/2005/05/27/
jeannette_walls_author_the_glass_castle_gossip_columnist_msnbccom.php

:“The Glass Castle: Outrageous Misfortune”
Book Review by Francine Prose New York Times (you will need to register for this site)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013COVERPROSE.html

 Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”:
:“Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” (1913)http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/whyyw.html

:Electronic text of the story “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
 (keep hitting "Next Page" and print out the full story--it says THE END on last page): http://www.4literature.net/Nathaniel_Hawthorne/Birthmark/

:Notes on “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-lit/hawthorne.html
 

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Useful Student Links for English 1B:
Introduction to Literature:

:Poetry Websites:

http://www.poemhunter.com/

http://www.favoritepoem.org/

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

http://www.poets.org/index.php/

:Dudley Randall and "The Ballad of Birmingham":
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/randall.htm

:"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin Lecture:
http://cai.ucdavis.edu/uccp/sblecture.html

:Toni Cade Bambara and "The Lesson":
http://socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/Cultural_Reproduction_Through_Literature_as_Activism

:Useful Information on Ibsen's A Doll's House:
http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu/dollshouse.html

:Emma Goldman’s The Social Significance of the Modern Drama © 1914
from the UC Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Drama/doll.html

:Useful Information on Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun:
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/hansberry.html

:Resources for Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby:
http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/engramja/gatsby/great_gatsby.htm

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/3844/
 

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Last updated Sept. 4, 2007 by Amy Hundley