Plan a Kindness Project Inspired by Helen Keller

Use Signs in the Silence before reading and the discussion sheets in chapter order. Assign the letter or the sensory chart as a writing task after Chapters V and X.

Read about Helen's doll Nancy at the Perkins Institution, then plan a project so others feel included. The directions on the page read: Read the passage closely. On pages 2 and 3 you will plan a project that helps a group of people feel included. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 8th grade novel studies, and it works the same at home or at school. At home, a student can work through it alone and then go over it with you, which shows quickly what is solid and what needs another look. In class it works as independent practice, homework or a warm-up, and you can print one copy or a full set.

Keller compares her life before Anne Sullivan arrived to a ship in a fog, and she writes about the light and love her teacher brought. Helen Keller Discussion, The Teacher Arrives asks students to explain both images with her own words.

Keller learned to speak in the spring of 1890. Long before that, she kept one hand on her throat and felt the movements of her lips with the other, and she liked to feel a singer's throat or a piano. Helen Keller Discussion, Learning to Speak has students quote how she used touch.

Helen Writes Home From the Seashore asks for a 100 word letter in Helen's voice that uses only touch, smell and taste. Five Senses in the Wild Cherry Tree asks for a short description of a weather change using only touch and smell.