For nearly five decades, Anne Sullivan was Helen Keller's teacher, friend, and constant companion. This collection contains portraits of Sullivan, images of her with Helen Keller and other images and documents that pertain to her life. Anne Sullivan was born in April 1866 in Feeding Hills, a village in western Massachusetts. When Sullivan was about five years old, she contracted trachoma, an eye disease caused by bacteria. Over time the recurring irritation and scarring of the cornea caused vision loss and necessitated several rounds of surgery throughout her life. Anne Sullivan was the child of immigrants who left Ireland during the Great Famine. Sullivan's mother died when Anne was about eight years old and was sent to live in the "poor house" in Tewksbury, Massachusetts where the conditions were deplorable. In 1880 Sullivan learned that a commission was coming to investigate the conditions at Tewksbury Almshouse. On the day of their visit, Anne followed them around, waiting for an opportunity to speak. Just as the tour was concluding, she gathered up all of her courage, approached a member of the team of inspectors, and told him that she wanted to go to school. That moment changed her life. On October 7, 1880, Anne Sullivan entered the Perkins Institution. Anne Sullivan excelled academically at Perkins and after her graduation Michael Anagnos, then director at Perkins, sent Anne to teach Helen Keller in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Visit www.perkins.org/archives/ for more information about the Perkins Archives. Rights and Permissions: All images in this collection are the property of Perkins School for the Blind. Use of these images requires written permission. For more information, please contact the Perkins Archives at [email protected].
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about
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This story caught my attention for a couple of reasons. Emma Lou Thayne was my husband's College English teacher. He has remarked to me on more than one occasion how much he treasured having her as his English teacher. She was such an inspiration to him. We have a 8 year old blind granddaugher who is an inspiration to us. She has come a long way in her blind world; and we are grateful to have her as our granddaughter. She plays the piano by ear and we love it when she plays for us. Emma Lou Thayne The following is a vey sweet story out of the book, "A Place Of Knowing" by Emma Lou Thayne. Many years into my adulthood, when asked by a Jewish poet friend why I stay in my Mormonism, I explained it with a story, the details recounted by my mother. It is my mother’s story transposed into an allegory about my believing. When I was a little girl, my father took me to hear Helen Keller in the Tabernacle. I must have been about eight or nine and I’d read about Helen Keller in school, and my mother had told me her story. Helen Keller I remember sitting in the balcony at the back of that huge domed building that was supposed to have the best acoustics in the world. Helen—everybody called her that—walked in from behind a curtain under the choir seats with her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Helen spoke at the pulpit—without a microphone—but we could hear perfectly, her guttural, slow, heavily pronounced speech. She spoke about her life and her beliefs. Her eyes were closed and when it came time for questions from the audience, she put her fingers on her teacher’s lips and then repeated for us what the question had been. She answered questions about being deaf and blind and learning to read and to type and, of course, to talk. Hearing that voice making words was like hearing words for the first time, as if language had only come into being—into my being at least—that moment. Someone asked her, “Do you feel colors?” I’ll never forget her answer, the exact sound of it—“Some-times . .. . I feel . . . blue.” Her voice went up slightly at the end, which meant she was smiling. The audience didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. After quite a lot of questions, she said, “I would . . .. like to ask . . . a fa-vor of you.” Of course, the audience was all alert. “Is your Mormon prophet here?” she asked. There was a flurry of getting up from the front row, and President Grant walked up the stairs to the stand. She reached out her hand and he took it. All I could think was, “Oh, I wish I were taking pictures of that.” President Heber J. Grant President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “I . . . would like . . . ,” she said, “to hear your organ . . . play .. . your fa-mous song—about your pio-neers. I . . . would like . . . to re-mem-ber hear-ing it here.” All the time she was speaking she was holding his hand he had given her to shake. I liked them together, very much. I remember thinking, “I am only a little girl (probably others know) but how in the world will she hear the organ?” But she turned toward President Grant and he motioned to Alexander Schreiner, the Tabernacle organist who was sitting near the loft. At the same time, President Grant led her up a few steps to the back of the enormous organ—with its five manuals and eight thousand pipes. We were all spellbound. He placed her hand on the grained oak of the console, and she stood all alone facing us in her long, black velvet dress with her right arm extended, leaning slightly forward and touching the organ, with her head bowed. Brother Schreiner played “Come, Come, Ye Saints,” each verse a different arrangement, the organ pealing and throbbing—the bass pedals like foghorns—as only he could make happen. Helen Keller stood there—hearing through her hand and sobbing. Probably a lot more than just me—probably lots of us in the audience were mouthing the words to ourselves— “Gird up your loins; fresh courage take. / Our God will never us forsake; / And soon we’ll have this tale to tell— / All is well! / All is well!” I could see my great-grandparents, converts from England, Wales, France, and Denmark, in that circle of their covered wagons, singing over their fires in the cold nights crossing the plains. Three of them had babies die; my great-grandmother was buried in Wyoming. “And should we die before our journey’s through, / Happy day! / All is well! / We then are free from toil and sorrow, too; / With the just we shall dwell! / But if our lives are spared again / To see the Saints their rest obtain, / Oh, how we’ll make this chorus swell— / All is well! / All is well!” So then—that tabernacle, that singing, my ancestors welling in me, my father beside me, that magnificent woman, all combined with the organ and the man who played it and the man who had led her to it—whatever passed between the organ and her passed on to me. I believed. I believed it all—the seeing without seeing, the hearing without hearing, the going by feel toward something holy, something that could make her cry, something that could move me, alter me, something as unexplainable as a vision or a mystic connection, something entering the pulse of a little girl, something that no matter what would never go away. What it had to do with Joseph Smith or his vision or his gospel I never would really understand—all I know to this day is that I believe. Emma Lou Thayne wrote Hymn # 129," Where Can I Turn for Peace ..." Where can I turn for peace? Where is my solace When other sources cease to make me whole? When with a wounded heart, anger, or malice, I draw myself apart, Searching my soul? Where, when my aching grows, Where, when I languish, Where, in my need to know, where can I run? Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish? Who, who can understand? He, only One. He answers privately, Reaches my reaching In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend. Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching. Constant he is and kind, Love without end. My Blog Update: I have been invited to have my blog Living Waters link added to the following Christian Devotional page which features the various blogs that have joined together with Devotional Christian to promote God-focused blogging that encourages other Christians in their daily walk with God. I am excited to have my blog included. Here is a great site for good Christian resources and ideas for a Ministry for Children: http://ministry-for-children-com/ This site has great articles to help in raising children. I have moved my Inner City Mission Journal Moments to a new blog site which you can get to by clicking the button at the top of my side bar. We are enjoying our mission very much and I thought that when we complete this assignment I would want to have my journal published for our family. Thanks to all of you who visit my blogs. I have gainned many friends in the blogging world and I love reading all of your posts and I consider you very dear friends. 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Description: Helen Keller with a Boston Terrier. Keller is seated at a circular table and the dog is sitting on top of it. Both of Keller's hands are on the dog and she is resting her head on the dog's shoulders. The dog is looking at the camera.Dedication at the bottom reads: "To Dr. Bridgman From Helen Keller, March 1905." Note: formerly (AG62-1-020) Note on verso: Helen Keller and Pet Dog, Phiz (given to her by Radcliffe classmates) Creator: Emily Stokes, Boston Date: 1902 Format: black and white photograph Digital Identifier: AG62-03-013 Credit: Perkins Archives, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
This story is an emotional and vivid portrayal of the relationship between a child and her teacher. Helen Keller is rendered deaf and blind at an early age and by the time she is six years old her behavior becomes completely unmanageable. In desperation her parents send for teacher Annie Sullivan to bring some discipline into the spoiled childs life. Helen and Annie become locked in a ferocious battle of wills but Annie is determined to bring a sense of discipline into Helens life. Annie teaches Helen words by constantly spelling them into Helens palm. Although Helen can spell them back she doesnt understand that these words actually represent things. At the water pump Annie spells water into Helens hand and suddenly the miracle happens; Helen understands.
Description: A photographic print reproduction, of A cabinet card studio portrait of Viney Murphy, the Keller family nursemaid, who has dark skin tone, with Helen Keller's younger sister Mildred, and her younger brother Phillips Brooks, both of whom are white. Murphy sits facing the camera. She holds Philips Brooks, an infant with her right arm, while Mildred, a young child leans in closely on her left. Murphy is wearing a dark top with a white bow and white apron, her hair pulled back. Phillips Brooks is wearing a white infant dress with lace detailing while Midred wears a dress with a lace collar and lace cuffs. Creator: Perkins School for the Blind, Facsimilist Date: circa 2000 Format: Photographs Genre: Photographic prints Language/Script: Materials entirely in English. Subjects: Murphy, Viney, 1857-1919 Tyson, Mildred Keller, 1886-1969 Keller, Phillips Brooks, 1891-1971 Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 Nursemaid Domestic servant Household employees Place of Origin: Sheffield, Colbert, Alabama Biographical Note: Viney Murphy (1857-1919), was a nursemaid to Helen Keller’s younger siblings and was mentioned in Keller’s writings and William Gibson’s play, The Miracle Worker. Murphy was a community leader who became a lead officer of the fraternal organization, Mosaic Templars of America, and was head of Tuscumbia’s Celess Mullins 888 Chamber. Martha Washington was also mentioned by Keller as a playmate and daughter of the cook. Martha Washington is actually Mariah Watkins, the niece of Sophia Napier Watkins (1854-1917) who was employed by the Kellers as a cook. Sophia Napier Watkins and Viney Murphy were co-workers and close friends. Sources: McKnight, Tom. “A Genealogy Journey of 4,496 MILES IN 86 DAYS, parts I-III.” Blog, Reconnected Roots, 6/6/2010, 6/9/2010, 6/12/2010, www.collectivemindsgroup.com/rroots/pcms.asp?id=13&l1=13. Accessed 30 Sept. 2021. Wiggins, Steve. “McKnight, Tom. “Together Again – A Keller-family cook and her husband reunited after 109 years, Quad City Daily News, May 25, 2020, quadcitiesdaily.com. Accessed 1 Oct. 2021.” Historical Note: Photographs of nursemaids with the children they cared for were a popular means of displaying a family’s wealth. Families that did not have a lot of money were still able to hire domestic workers because of the lack of opportunity for black women, particularly in the South. Nursemaids were domestic workers who were charged with the care of a family’s children and often performed other household labor. Black women and girls became the choice for white American families to employ for over a century. Domestic servitude became racialized in the early 1800s resulting in 40% of the household labor being done by black women by 1920. The work was difficult and lifelong for many women who were paid substance wages and were employed to care for white children, often as children themselves. Sources: Branch, Enobong Hannah, and Melissa E. Wooten. “Suited for Service: Racialized Rationalizations for the Ideal Domestic Servant from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century.” Social Science History, vol. 36, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 169–89, www.jstor.org/stable/23258091. Girls as Domestic Workers. Girlhood, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian americanhistory.si.edu. 29 Sept. 2021. Collection: Helen Keller Collection Series: Childhood and Early Adulthood Extent: 1 photographic print on 4.25 x 16.5 cm cabinet card mount. Physical Collection: AG62 Helen Keller Photograph Collection. Location: Perkins Archives, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA Related Materials: Cabinet Card portrait of Helen Keller with Infant, AG62-02-006 . Notes: Formerly (AG62-2-005). Date, title, and identification of subjects, supplied by cataloger. The digital file has been adjusted to provide greater visibility of details. Metadata was added and updated as part of a reparative work initiative, 2022 Terms of Access and Use: Terms of Access and Use: The Perkins Archives does not provide physical access to materials available in a digital format. No known copyright restrictions. The item may be subject to rights of privacy, rights of publicity, and other restrictions. This image is the property of Perkins School for the Blind and use of this image requires written permission. For more information, please visit Perkins.org/image-licensing. Digital Identifier: AG62-02-006
Looking to supplement your weekly lessons? This is a digital lesson to allow students to interact with the weekly story and it's components. Don't want to use one of the slides? Simply delete it! (Find this product in Unit 3 Bundle) Drag & Drop design allows students to easily complete the task on their own! The writing prompts have a text box ready for students to type their response. Easily upload into Google Classroom, PowerPoint during centers, or other online platform. Week 14 Preview QR Code: Helen Keller; The Deaf Musicians Spelling Word List Homework Contract. Author's Purpose Anchor Chart Author's Purpose Graphic Organizer Author's Purpose Sort- drag and drop Anchor Text Activity: Helen Keller Sequence Cut & Paste Writing: How can you communicate in different ways? Writing: Why did Annie Sullivan keep working with Helen even though it was difficult? Writing: Why did the author write Helen Keller? Writing: What makes Helen Keller an important person? Writing: Could Helen Keller have used an of the tools from Talking Tools? Which ones? Words to Know- circle correct word Spelling ABC Order Spelling Fill in the Blank Long O Vowel: oa Drag & Drop Long O Vowel: o Drag & Drop Long O Vowel: ow Drag & Drop Proof Reading Sentences (2) Reading Fluency Add a Suffix -ly More Proper Nouns Anchor Chart Proper Nouns Common/Proper Nouns sort- drag and drop Using Quotation Marks (2) Writing Planning Sheet (2) Persuasive Writing: Write to persuade your school to help with a community project. Include 2 facts to support each reason. Proper Nouns: Days, Months, Holidays, Books Digital Task Cards (6) Looking for the print version of Lesson 14? Journey's 2nd Grade Lesson 14 Helen Keller Like this resource? Please click Follow Me to see the latest items posted in my store! Please leave feedback! FEEDBACK I truly appreciate feedback. It helps me decide which products are most helpful and valuable for your students. The feedback you provide helps me make my products better to suit your needs. Even a simple review like THANK YOU! is such a big help. Need help or have a suggestion? Email me at [email protected] To Earn Credit for Future Purchases, Go to My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback Link. Click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment about the product. Why is feedback so important? Each time you give feedback, you earn TPT credits that you can use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Become a Follower If you would like to be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches, click the GREEN STAR next to my shop logo on my main page and you will become a follower. This action will now send you email updates about this store. If you have any questions, be sure to contact me! Terms Copyright © KinderBerry 2020. Single classroom use only.
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The Miracle Worker - Literature Kit Gr. 7-8 This exceptional teaching resource is designed to help Grade 7 and 8 students understand the complexities and challenges of being blind and/or deaf. It engages students into the narrative of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Aims Foster a deeper level of understanding about disabilities, perseverance, resilience, and human relationships. Promote critical thinking through chronological arrangement activities from the narrative play. Enhance language proficiency with vocabulary challenging components using text from the literature kit. Vibrant Activities Promote Active Learning And Critical Thinking: An interesting activity module includes reflection on significant plot points like how Helen first understood 'water' triggering potential research topics for students like Ivy Green - an integral location of Helen Keller's life story. Problem-solving tasks require identification of issues along with their resolutions while enhancing story retention skills following Bloom's Taxonomy guidelines providing flexibility in diverse learning scenarios such as small groups or homework assignments. In addition to these modules, this kit comes with appealing add-ons like crosswords and word searches aimed at deepening comprehension via diversified engagement methods for different learner types. Further perks are offered via provision of a basic quiz that helps educators assess learners' grasp on the theme while enhancing recall capacities; all provided answer keys save valuable prep-time ensuring efficient planning logistics for teachers. The kit is formatted as PDF making it easily accessible across digital platforms specializing in Language Arts focusing specifically on Literature promoting indepth exploration into literary works whilst embedding sub-topics within cognitive frameworks thus enabling an empathetic understanding around disabilities coupling it with higher-order thinking skills. Final Insights This teaching resource targets Grade 7 and 8 students with a novel-based approach in enhancing literacy skills, broadening perspectives around disabilities, and promoting an inclusive pattern of thought within young learners. Certainly a must-have for educators passionate about weaving narratives in order to teach empathy and resilience to their students. The Miracle Worker - Literature Kit Gr. 7-8
Book Synopsis A heartwarming portrait of an unforgettable woman by the critically acclaimed author of Abe's Honest Words and Martin's Big Words. This picture book biography is an excellent and accessible introduction for young readers to learn about one of the world's most influential luminaries. With her signature style of prose laced with stirring quotes, Doreen Rappaport brings to life Helen Keller's poignant narrative. Acclaimed illustrator Matt Tavares beautifully captures the dynamism and verve of Helen Keller's life and legacy, making Helen's Big World an unforgettable portrait of a woman whose vision for innovation and progress changed America--and the world--forever. Review Quotes "A magisterial account."--Kirkus Reviews"Appearing beside broad, horizontal illustrations, Rappaport's narrative is spaced out in poetic form. [The] sometimes dramatic illustrations show just how big Helen's world could be, picturing her in a college classroom, in a tree, on a stage, and in a factory with child laborers. The back endpapers illustrate the alphabet of hand signs that Sullivan taught Keller. Readers intrigued by the Braille alphabet can feel the raised red dots on the jacket, which spell out the book's title. A worthwhile addition to biography shelves." --Booklist"Helen's Big World covers the whole span of Helen's life from birth through her many years with Annie and after. Rappaport characteristically uses quotes to extend and heighten the emotion. A timeline at the end helps put important dates in perspective. Though this book focuses more on Helen than on Annie, readers get a more acute awareness of how much Annie sacrificed for Helen, Tavares' illustrations are, per the title, big and bold and often in intense close-up. Stirring and awe-inspiring."--The Horn Book"While there are many books available about Helen Keller for this age group, this title offers a unique and beautiful perspective on her life." --School Library Journal About the Author Doreen Rappaport has written numerous award-winning books for children, including: Freedom Ship and The School Is Not White, both illustrated by Curtis James; Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier, a Caldecott Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Orbis Pictus Honor Book, and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner; Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, CCBC Best Book of the Year, and an IRA Teacher's Choice; Eleanor, Quiet No More, illustrated by Gary Kelly; and Jack's Path of Courage, illustrated by Matt Tavares. She lives and writes in upstate New York, and she invites you to visit her online at doreenrappaport.com. Matt Tavares is the illustrator of several books, including 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Jack and the Beanstalk, written by E. Nesbit, Iron Hans: A Grimms' Fairy Tale, retold by Stephen Mitchell, Lady Liberty: A Biography, and Jack's Path of Courage, both written by Doreen Rappaport. His books have won several awards, including four Parents' Choice Gold Awards, a Parents' Choice Silver Honor, two Oppenheim Gold Seal Awards, and an International Reading Association Children's Book Award. His illustrations have been exhibited at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, and at the Brandywine River Museum. Matt lives in Maine with his wife and two daughters, and he invites you to visit him online at matttavares.com.
