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Freshman English and AP English--Time Magazine List of the Top Ten Greatest Speeches

Mary's First Speech, Winston Churchill (no date) Check out this link to what Time Magazine considers the top 10 greatest speeches: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1841228_1841749_1841738,00.html

Freshman English and AP English--Why do I Make You Handwrite Notes?

Memories of a Night, Luigi Russolo (1911) All Classes--Handwriting Actually Improves Memory  Students sometimes ask me why they can't just copy and paste, or type some notes.  Brain research demonstrates that actually using your hand  to write out the letters and words is more beneficial than typing, and certainly more beneficial than just copying and pasting. Check out this link: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Writing-Helps-Memory-More-than-Typing-181157.shtml

About the Teacher

Mr. James Mulhern has been teaching for over thirty-two years in a variety of 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...

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