Helen Keller: Before and After

1. Learn your name using the sign language alphabet.

2. Reread "Water" focusing on what Helen's experience was like before she learned to communicate and what it was like afterwards. Use the Open Mind to record ideas and images from the text. You will find the Open Mind in your classroom folder.

3. On the day that Helen discovered language, her teacher wrote a letter describing what she observed. Read the letter from Anne Sullivan. How does Ms. Sullivan's letter add to your understanding of the amazing events of that day?
3. Use the ideas you gathered in the letter, the ideas you recorded on the Open Mind, as well as the quotations you copied in the classroom stream, to write a response to the following:

4.  Read the timeline to find out more about Helen's accomplishments.