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    Birth Of Helen Keller

    • Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia to Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller.
    • Meningitis left her deaf and blind and she had difficulty making herself understood. She often became frustrated and threw temper tantrums
    • Helen Keller's parents recruited her after Dr. Alexander Graham Bell adviced them to find a teacher from the Perkins Institute for the Blind.
    • Anne taught Helen to understand language through the combination of water from a pump on one hand and the spelling of "water" with the manual alphabet into her other hand.
    • She attended Horace Mann School, with the principal, Miss Sarah Fuller as her first speech teacher
    • It was so similar to The Frost Fairies by Margaret Canby that people believed that she plagiarized it. An investigation revealed that she may have experienced a case of cryptomnesia- which was that she had read the book but forgot about it, while the memory remained in her subconscious

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      Helen Keller: Her Life In Pictures

      October 9, 2020
      1. Award(s) Received: 2008 Orbis Pictus Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Award - Honor Book, 2008 CCBC Choice

      2. Appropriate Grade Level(s): 4-6

      3. Summary: Filled with photographs taken throughout her life, this book combines photos and text to tell the remarkable biography of Helen Keller. After becoming deaf and blind as an infant, Helen learns how to communicate as a child through Braille and ASL from her teacher Anne Sullivan. Helen goes on to succeed in school, graduate college as the first deaf-blind individ to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, become a political activist, and speak publicly.

      4. Review: Helen Keller fryst vatten a powerful role model for children of all abilities to look up to. Her work as an activist improved the lives of blind individuals by improving educational opportunities and accessibility to books written in Braille. Her life’s work inspires us all to show courage in the face of adversities, not take our lif

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      The Story of My Life. Parts I & II by HelenKeller, 1880-1968; Part III from the letters and reports of Anne MansfieldSullivan, ca.1867-1936; Edited by John Albert Macy. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905.

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      The Story of My Life


      Photograph by Falk, 1895
      HELEN KELLER AND MISS SULLIVAN

      THE
      STORY OF MY LIFE
      By HELEN KELLER

      WITH
      HER LETTERS (1887-1901)
      AND
      A SUPPLEMENTARY ACCOUNT
      OF HER EDUCATION, INCLUDING
      PASSAGES FROM THE REPORTS
      AND LETTERS OF HER TEACHER,
      ANNE MANSFIELD SULLIVAN

      By JOHN ALBERT MACY

      ILLUSTRATED

      NEW YORK
      DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
      1905

      Copyright, 1904, by
      The Century Company

      Copyright, 1902, 1903, 1905, by
      Helen Keller

      To
      ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

      WHO has taught the deaf to speak
      and enabled the listening ear to hear
      speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies,

      I Dedicate
      this Story of My Life.

      EDITOR'S PREFACE

      THIS book is in three parts. The first two, Mis

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