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ELIC 30 – Shore-Berger
Part 9: Editing (from Section 4 of Course Pack)
Read the biography on Helen Keller. As you read, search for 6 errors related verb tense and verb form
. As you complete this activity, think about your own writing. Do you often make these kinds of errors?
To correct the error using a computer, use the box below to copy and paste and put it above the error.
You can use the strikeout tool to cross out the error or you can highlight or underline the error. Then underline
the incorrect part and change the color to red or pink so that I can easily see your errors.
If you handwrite, cross out the error and correct it in the space above.
Where Was Helen Keller Born?
Helen Adams Keller born a healthy child in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880. Her parents were Kate Adams Keller and Colonel Arthur Keller. On her father's side, she descended from Colonel Alexander Spottswood, a colonial governor of Virginia, and on her mother's side, she was related to a number of prominent New England families. Helen's father, Arthur Keller, was being a captain in the Confederate army. The family lost most of its wealth during the Civil War and lived modestly. After the war, Captain Keller edited a local newspaper, the North Alabamian
. At the age of 19 months, Helen has became deaf and blind as a result of an unknown illness. As Helen grew from infancy into childhood, she became wild.
When Did Helen Keller Meet Anne Sullivan?
As she so often remarked as an adult, her life changed on March 3, 1887. On that day, Anne Mansfield Sullivan came to Tuscumbia to be her teacher. Anne was a 20-year-old graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind. Compared with Helen, Anne had a more different childhood and upbringing. She was the daughter of poor Irish immigrants and entered Perkins at 14 years of age after four horrible years at the Tewksbury Almshouse in Massachusetts. Anne was almost 14 years older than her pupil Helen, and she also suffered from serious vision problems. Anne underwent many unsuccessful operations at a young age before her sight was partially restored. To this day, Anne's success with Helen remained an extraordinary story and is best known to people because of the film The Miracle Worker.
The film correctly showed Helen
as a spoiled child who tyrannized the household with her temper tantrums. Anne believed that the key to reaching Helen was to teach her obedience and love. She saw the need to discipline the spirit of her young student. As a result, within a week of her arrival, she had gained permission to remove Helen from the main house and live alone with her in the nearby cottage. They remaining there for two weeks. Anne began her task of teaching Helen by manually signing into the child's hand. Anne had brought a doll that the children at Perkins had made for her to take to Helen. By spelling "d-o-l-l" into the child's hand, she is hoping to teach her to connect objects with letters. Helen quickly learned to form the letters
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