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| When was Helen Keller born? | June 27, 1880; 15 years after the Civil War ended. |
| Where was Helen Keller born? | in Tuscumbia, alittle town of northern Alabma |
| What was a conindence about one of Helen's Swiss ancestors? | One of her Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich, Switzerland, and wrote a book on the subject of the education of the deaf; this happened way before Helen was ever born. |
| What was Helen's father in the Confederate Army? | He was a captain - Arthur H. Keller |
| Hwo was Helen's mother? | She was Kate Adams, and she was the second wife of Arthur Keller by many years. |
| What was Helen's little childhood home covered with? | It was completely covered with vines, climbing roses and honeysuckles. it was a favorite haunt of hummingbirds and bees. |
| What were some things that Helen said before she was one year old? | wahwah, How d'ye, tea, tea, tea |
| When was Helen able to walk? | on the dya that she turned one year old |
| What happened to Helen in February after she was one year old, when she was about 19 months old? | She became very sick when she was 19 months ol, It was called accute congestion of the stomahc and brain. The fever left her as mysteriously and suddenly as it had come. |
| What had Helen caught glimpses of int eh first 29 months of her life? | She had seen broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness did not totally block out of her memory. |
| How did Helen let her family know she wanted something shince she couldn't hear or see? | a nod meant yes; a shake of the head meant no; a pull meant come; a push meant go |
| What dould Helen do for herself when she was 5 years old? | She could fold and put away the clean clothes when they were brought in from the laundry, and she knew whichc clothes were hers. |
| What would Helen do to Ella, her nurse, when Helen was in a bad mood? | She would kick her when she was naughty. |
| What did Helen do with the pantry key? | She locked her mother in the pantry for 3 hours. |
| What did helen do witht he key to Miss Sullivan's room? | She locked Miss Sullivan in the room, and her father had to climb on a ladder to rescue her from her second floor room. |
| How did Helen feel about Mildred af first after she was born? | Helen resented all of the attention going to Mildred, and she was really mad when she found that Mildred had been placed in the cradle that Helen put her dolls in, so Helen dumped baby mildred out, and her mother just caught the baby. |
| lWhat did Dr. Chisholm, the oculist in Baltimore, suggest to Helen's parents? | He suggested that Helen go to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, DC. Dr. Bell told her family to take Helen to the Perkins Institute in Boston, massachusetts to help Helen. Dr. Anagnos at the Perkins Institute found a teacher for Helen in the summer of 1886 |
| What does Helen remember as the most important day of her life? | March 3, 1887, when Miss Anne Sullivan came to Helen in Tuscumbia, Alabama. |
| What did Anne Sullivan give Helen the day after she first came to Alabama to live with her family and teach helen? | She gave Helen a doll, and spelled d-o-l-l into Helen'ts hand. A few days later, Helen threw the doll on the floor and broke it. |
| What were some of the words that Helen learned to spell with her fingers? | doll, water, mug, pin, hat, cup, sit, stand, walk, mother, father, sister, teacher. |
| How long did it take for Helen to learn that everything has a name? | a few weeks |
| How did Helen feel in the summer of 1887? | She felt that her soul had a sudden awakening. She explored with her hands and learned the name of every object that she touched. The more she learned, the more joyous and confident grew her sense of kinship with the rest of the world. |
| What did Helen learn on the banks of the Tennessee River? | She learned about nature and how the sun and the rain make plants grown for food and how birds build their nests and live and thrive and how deer, squirrels and creatures find food and shelter |
| How did Helen learn that nature is not always kind? | She was sitting in a cherry tree while Anne Sullivan went to fix them lunch. A thunderstorm came up, and Helen could smell the odor. Terror kept Helen in the tree. |
| What word did Helen not understand the meaning of? | love; Helen thought "love" had to be something you could feel or touch. She did not understand that it was an emotion. |
| After learning to spell words and what they represented, what was the next important step in Helen's education? | Learning to read |
| How did Helen learn to read? | by using slips of cardboard on which were printed words in raised letters; she learned that each printed word stood for an object, an act or a quality. |
| Martha Washington | She was the Keller's cook's daughter who was about 4 years old than Helen. She was very tolerant of how Helen treated her. Helen got her to let Helen cut her hair, but when whe was going to start cutting Helen's hair, she was stopped after cutting one curl of Helen's hair. |
| Mildred | Helen's baby sister who was dumped out of the cradle when she was only a baby. Helen became Helen's best friend close to her age. |
| Miss Anne Sullivan | She was the recommended teacher for Helen by Mr. Anagnos. She was very patient with Helen and brought a doll made by the deaf student from Boston in the Perkins Institute. |
| What did Miss Sullivan get Helen for Christmas? | She gave Helen a canary to take care of by feeding it and cleaning its cage. |
| What happened to the canary? | One day when Helen went to fetch water for the canary's bath, Helen left the cage open and didn't think about closing it. On her way back into the room, the cat brushed her leg. She felt for the canary in the cage, but it was gone. She soon realized that the cat ate the canary! |
| What did Helen learn about plants? | They bought a lily and set it in a sunny window and studied how it grew and bloomed. |
| What was the study that Helen did not like? | She did not like arithmetic; from the first she was not interested in the science of numbers. |
| What was sent to Helen that helped her learn about the antediluvian Helen learn about the antediluvian period? | a gentleman sent Helen a collection of fossils - tiny mollusk shells. |
| Where did Helen learn most of her studies? | She and Miss sullivan studied out of doors, preferring the sunlit woods to the house. |
| How did Helen learn to read? | she learned to read by using slips of cardboard on which were printed words in raised letters; she learned that each printed word stood for an object, an act, or a quality. |
| After learning to spell words and what they represented, what was the next important step in Helen's education? | learning to read |
| What word did Helen no understand the meaning of? | love; Helen thought "love" had to be something you could feel or touch. She did not understand that was an emotion. |
