My name is Michael Mahoney. I have taught at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento since 1996.
This year I am teaching AP English Literature and Composition, Expository Reading and Writing (ERWC senior English), yearbook and newspaper.
I grew up in Fairport, NY, outside of Rochester. In high school, I played football and as a junior distinguished myself as the worst player on the best team in New York state. I was more successful as sports editor of the school newspaper.
I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English. (I tried on a couple other majors first. However, I found I was putting off my assigned reading until after I finished just 10 more pages or maybe just to the end of the chapter of whatever novel I was engrossed in, and so I figured I might as well major in something where novels were the homework.) I wrote my senior thesis on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and my honors thesis on the interplay of literary form and overt message in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. I have a Master's degree in English from National University. My master's thesis was on short stories by Native American writers.
Before becoming a teacher, I was a newspaper reporter and editor. After working as city editor and opinion page editor of the Daily Californian at Berkeley, I worked for the Loudoun Times-Mirror in Leesburg, Va., the Washington Post and Sacramento Bee. I continue to write occasional opinion articles, which have appeared in the Sacramento Bee, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
My wife and I live in Sacramento. Our older daughter graduated from McClatchy High School and is now studying nursing at University of San Francisco. Our younger daughter attends McClatchy, and, like her big sister before her, is on the water polo team. We enjoy traveling together. (The picture on my homepage is of the library at Ephesus in Turkey from our trip a couple summers ago.) I love to read, hike, kayak, run along the river with my dog and get out into nature.
I hope all of my students will see the world--and learn about it through great books.
(The picture above is a selfie with some of my former newspaper editor taken at the Shack in East Sac. The picture below is me and my family at a wedding in New York last summer.)
This year I am teaching AP English Literature and Composition, Expository Reading and Writing (ERWC senior English), yearbook and newspaper.
I grew up in Fairport, NY, outside of Rochester. In high school, I played football and as a junior distinguished myself as the worst player on the best team in New York state. I was more successful as sports editor of the school newspaper.
I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English. (I tried on a couple other majors first. However, I found I was putting off my assigned reading until after I finished just 10 more pages or maybe just to the end of the chapter of whatever novel I was engrossed in, and so I figured I might as well major in something where novels were the homework.) I wrote my senior thesis on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and my honors thesis on the interplay of literary form and overt message in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. I have a Master's degree in English from National University. My master's thesis was on short stories by Native American writers.
Before becoming a teacher, I was a newspaper reporter and editor. After working as city editor and opinion page editor of the Daily Californian at Berkeley, I worked for the Loudoun Times-Mirror in Leesburg, Va., the Washington Post and Sacramento Bee. I continue to write occasional opinion articles, which have appeared in the Sacramento Bee, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
My wife and I live in Sacramento. Our older daughter graduated from McClatchy High School and is now studying nursing at University of San Francisco. Our younger daughter attends McClatchy, and, like her big sister before her, is on the water polo team. We enjoy traveling together. (The picture on my homepage is of the library at Ephesus in Turkey from our trip a couple summers ago.) I love to read, hike, kayak, run along the river with my dog and get out into nature.
I hope all of my students will see the world--and learn about it through great books.
(The picture above is a selfie with some of my former newspaper editor taken at the Shack in East Sac. The picture below is me and my family at a wedding in New York last summer.)