Checklist and Reflection for Primary Source Learning Experiences Complete one checklist for each learning experience and attach a table with links to the LOC primary source items used in the learning activity. Attach any materials needed to implement the activity. Name: Saundra Rogers District: APS School: KEY Unit/Activity: _Grade 2 ESOL/HILT Helen Keller Social Studies I implemented this learning experience with students on: 12/2/05 Signature: Saundra C. Rogers (Type signature if completing electronically to acknowledge that you have implemented this activity with students.) 1. This learning experience meets one or more of the following objectives (check all that apply): develops student content knowledge through exploration and analysis of a variety of primary resources. X is differentiated, offering challenges and support for students with a broad range of readiness levels, interests or learning profiles. contains an assessment tool that aligns with the learning goal for the activity. X contains an assessment tool that creates an opportunity for feedback to the learner and the teacher from which further learning activities can be built. promotes information literacy and technology skills that enable students to search for relevant information and develop critical thinking skills. 2. This learning experience is (check all that apply): warm-up X_assessment _X one activity within a larger lesson full lesson within a unit a unit with a series of lessons student project or performance web based activity other, please explain 3. Give one or more examples of student learning you observed (e.g. student comments and/or products.) Students commented that they did not believe that a deaf-blind person could ever learn to communicate with others. Students felt strongly that a child with multiple disabilities could be loved by his/her mother, but not by his/ father. Students drew pictures depicting their favorite part of the Miracle Worker. 4. If you were to implement this learning experience again, what would you change?
I will arrange to have my students meet deaf-blind students from another school so that they will get a chance to communicate with them. I would provide more information on Alexander Graham Bell for the students.
Name: Saundra Rogers School: Key School email: saundra_rogers@apsva.us Grade/subject: Grade 2 ESOL/HILT Unit Title/Description: Helen Keller The Miracle Worker 1979 version with Patty Duke Astin and Melissa Gilbert Learning goal: -The student will identify Helen Keller as an American whose contributions improved the lives of other Americans. SOL Number Title of LOC item Permanent URL Description of Classroom Use Civics "Autumn," poem by Helen Keller, 27 October 1893. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collid=mcc&filename=06 After watching the film the Miracle worker, we read the 2.11 (Alexander Graham Bell Family 4/page.db&recNum=0 poem Autumn by Helen Keller. 2.12 Papers) Alexander Graham Bell with Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan at the meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 1894, in Chautauqua, N.Y.] http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(num BER+@band(ppmsc+00877))+@field( COLLID+cph)) We discussed how this was an example of Helen Keller s ability to use language to communicate with a large audience. Then as a written assessment students viewed the PowerPoint slide of the group photo. They were asked to identify the people in the photo and explain their relationship to each other. They were also asked to predict when and why this picture was taken.
Helen Keller What do you know about Helen Keller? She is a girl. She Speaks English. She is angry. She goes to school. She plays with her friends. No se nada sobre ella. (I don t know anything about her.) What would you like to learn about Helen Keller? Does she speak Spanish or English? Does she bring her lunch to school, or does she eat a school lunch? Is she a good girl at school? Is she a good girl at home? What does she like to play? Does she know how to read? Does she like to eat vegetables? Si ella saca buenas notas en la escuela? Si va a la escuela? Si respeta los padres? Does she know how to sew? Si estudia en la escuela? Si habla espanol? Si saca buenas notas? Que lee libros? Si se porta bien en la escuela? Does she behave well at home? Si comia en escuela o lleva lonchera? Si habla ingles? Si teje? Si tiene un gato? What have you learned about Helen Keller?
Helen s Legacy
Her Poetry "Autumn," poem by Helen Keller, 27 October 1893. (Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers)
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Library Of Congress Words and Deeds in American History "Autumn," poem by Helen Keller, 27 October 1893. (Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers)
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND Watertown, MA U.S.A.
Perkins Braille Writer
Prom Night Edgar Rosario danced with two partners during prom night Thursday at Perkins School for the Blind. Later, all the seniors were crowned king and queen. (Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan)
Helen Keller holding a Braille copy of her book The Story of my Life in 1955 She altered our perception of the disabled and remapped the boundaries of sight and sense. By DIANE SCHUUR WITH DAVID JACKSON
Communication
Deaf-Blind Manual Alphabet The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers Pamphlet by Alexander Graham Bell, 1891 - Transcription (Series: Article and Speech Files, Folder: "Upon a Method of Teaching to a Very Young Congenitally Deaf Child", 1891
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Lip Reading Miss Helen Keller reading Mrs. Coolidge's lips c1926 Jan. 12.
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Annie Sullivan Helen Keller AG Bell Annie Sullivan Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan
What do these people have in common with Helen Keller?
What do they have in common with you?
Helen Keller What do you know about Helen Keller? She is a girl. She Speaks English. She is angry. She goes to school. She plays with her friends. No se nada sobre ella. (I don t know anything about her.) What would you like to learn about Helen Keller? Does she speak Spanish or English? Does she bring her lunch to school, or does she eat a school lunch? Is she a good girl at school? Is she a good girl at home? What does she like to play? Does she know how to read? Does she like to eat vegetables? (These questions were asked in Spanish) Ella tiene un gato? Si ella saca buenas notas en la escuela? Si va a la escuela? Si respeta los padres? Does she know how to sew? What have you learned about Helen Keller? Her teacher taught her how to make letters. She hit other people. She learned how to make letters. She learned how to make words. She learned how to write books. She learned how to write poems. She threw the baby because she wanted a crib for her doll. She hit Annie Sullivan with her doll and knocked out her tooth. Helen Keller locked Annie in her room. Helen learned how to say wa-wa. She threw her fathers papers on the floor. She had bad manners but her teacher taught her good manners. Her teacher said she loved her. She gave Annie the key.
Annie loves Helen forever and ever. By Zilahir Zavala Albertini
Helen hits Annie, locks her in the room a room and hides the key. By Veronica Mendiola Ochoa
Helen breaks a jar to get attention. By Dayana Sussette Mejia
Helen finds her voice. By Cristian Perez
The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers Pamphlet by Alexander Graham Bell, 1891 - Transcription (Series: Article and Speech Files, Folder: "Upon a Method of Teaching to a Very Young Congenitally Deaf Child", 1891)
NATION WORLD BUSINESS ARTS PHOTOS CURRENT ISSUE AP Helen Keller holding a Braille book in 1955 Helen Keller She altered our perception of the disabled and remapped the boundaries of sight and sense By DIANE SCHUUR WITH DAVID JACKSON