Helen Keller, is a book about Helen Keller’s life. Its starts out telling the reader how Helen became blind and deaf when she was 18 months old. This when Helen is older she is “wild” and her parents send for a teacher to come help them. Helen’s teacher Annie is able to teach her to understand sign language and to sign back, how to write, and read braille, and eventually to speak. Helen is very ambitious and graduates from college, she also writes books. The book talks about shows and movies made about her. But one thing Helen loved to do was travel and be an inspirations to blind and deaf people.
I really loved this book. It is so unbelievable what Helen was able to do with her life, when she had so many things in her way. I also love her teacher and life-long friend Annie that never gave up on her. I think children that read this book will not only learn facts about Helen Keller but also about life lessons, which are so important. This book show patients, kindness, and how to give.
Classroom extensions:
1. After the book, children will learn their name in braille.
2. After the book, children will play a game where they wear a blindfold and pick an object out of a bag and have to feel to guess what it is.