1、Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,1,HELEN KELLER,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,2,Contents,The early period of her tough life Before Anne come Anne give Helen help Formal education Writings,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,3,The early period of her tough life,Helen Kel
2、ler was born in a city in America, At the first, her family is very happy. Because when she born, she was naturally smart and healthy However, in her year and a half, a serious illness (scarlet fever) to brain injury made her eyes burning blind, deaf ears burn, then she lost language skills. she plu
3、nged into a dark and silent world, stuck in a painful abyss. She became very frustrated because she couldnt talk. She became very angry and began to throw temper tantrums.,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,4,Before Anne come,She could recognize people by feeling of their faces or their clot
4、hes.,She made up signs with her hands so she could “talk“ to her family.She had 60 different signs. If she wanted bread,she pretended to be cutting a loaf.If she wanted ice cream,she would hug her shoulders and shiver.,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,5,They found a teacher named Anne Sull
5、ivan. Miss Sullivan herself had been blind, but had an operation and regained her sight. She understood what Helen was feeling.,The family knew they had to do something to help her,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,6,Anne give helen help:,She taught Helen the signs for the letters of the al
6、phabet. Then she would “spell“ the words in Helens hand to communicate with her.,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,7,One day Anne led Helen to the water pump and pumped water on her hand. She spelled the letters W-A-T-E-R as the water ran over Helens hand. She did this over and over again.A
7、t last it dawned on Helen that the word “water“ meant the water which she felt pouring over her hand. This opened up a whole new world for her. She ran everywhere asking Anne the name of different things and Anne would spell the words in her hand.This was the key which unlocked the world for her. Sh
8、e eventually stopped having the tantrums. after Anne taught her for years. Helen learned to read Braille and went to college.,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,8,Formal education,Starting in May, 1888, Keller attended the Institute for the Blind In 1894, Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan moved
9、 to New York toattend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf赖特 - 赫马森聋哑学校， and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf.,In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts马萨诸塞州 and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladiesbefore gaining admittance College,Sunday, June 9, 2019
10、,Nothing is impossible,9,In 1900, to Radcliffe where she lived in Briggs Hall SouthHouse.Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil ,magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife, paid for her education.In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated from Radcliffe, becoming the f
11、irst deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was one of the first to discover her literary talent.,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,10,Writings:,Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles. Such as the following:, Three Days to See The Frost King The Story of My Life The World I Live in,Sunday, June 9, 2019,Nothing is impossible,11,Thank you,
