Lauren+L's+19th+Century+Hero-+Helen+Keller


 * 1) Start with personal hero sentence: **Helen Keller is in many ways a hero, for she was blind and deaf, yet overcame the problems put in her way because she knew how to read and write**.
 * 2) Explain: **Helen was able to do what most people in her time wouldn't think possible.**
 * 3) **Name of your hero: Hellen Keller**
 * 4) Summary of why they are a hero: **Helen Keller is a hero because wen she was blind and deaf, she learned how to read and write thanks to her teacher, Anne Sullivan**
 * 5) Thesis **"In this essay, I will prove that Helen Keller was a hero because she was blind and deaf and learned how to read and write at a young age.**
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 * Paragraph 2 -- **** Put hero's life into perspective--when did they live, where, who were they trying to help, why, how, why was this important? **
 * 1) When- **1880- 1968**
 * 2) Where: **Ivy Green, Tuscumbia, Alabama**
 * 3) Who: **Back then deaf and blind children were more of a lost cause, so she proved to everyone that she can do what they thought then as impossible.**
 * 4) Why: **Because she wanted to be treated like a normal child, so she was able to learn to read and write**.
 * 5) Why were actions important: **She was able to prove to people that she could be different.**
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Ivy Green [] Paragraph 3 & 4-- **** What makes your person a hero? You must prove that your person meets the criteria of your own personal definition(this is the meat of your wiki page and your submission to the My Hero website-you’re looking at a good two to three paragraphs here--focus on that spark, that moment the person decided to be heroic or do heroic acts **

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 * 1) First action/or type of activities you are going to focus on: **When she was learning how to read hand motions and write in braille**.
 * 2) How does it meet your definition? **My definition is "A Person who can overcome obstacles put in their way." and she was able to do that by learning how to read and write even though she couldn't hear nor see.**
 * 3) Detail: **an** **obstacle was the fact that she could only read the letters that were used on her hands as reading**
 * 4) Detail: **another obstacle- learning to write in braille by associating the words anne taught her to use the words that braille taught her.**
 * 5) Detail: **The obstacle she overcomes is also that she wasn't born blind and deaf, at 19 months of age, she got sick and lost the abilities, so going from seeing very little as a child, to not seeing or hearing anything at all is deffinitely an obstacle.**
 * 6) What impact did the above have on people’s lives? **She impacted the fact that she is not like other girls, that she was able to do what most thought impossible.**
 * 7) Quote- **" All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming." **
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1.Second action/or type of activities you are going to focus on: **She was able to do things just like other kids, she learned too.** A legacy is something you leave behind that will benefit others-perhaps those yet unborn. How did the person’s actions benefit all those who came after them.This is your conclusion based on your research. It needs to reflect your research and not be an "off the street" answer.
 * 2. How does it meet your definition? **Obstacles she overcame was learning how to ride horses, even if she wasn't able to see the track.**
 * 3. Detail: **She learned how to ride horses, even if she couldn't see.**
 * 4. Detail: **She learned how to speak, even though she couldn't hear what she was saying, making it harder to learn.**
 * 5. Detail: **She also learned how to dance, just like girls of that age. So that she was learning to do things that mostly kids who can see would do.**
 * 6. What impact did the above have on people’s lives? **Proving to people that she wasn't a normal blind and deaf girl.**
 * 7. Quote: "** I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." **
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 * Paragraph 5- the other side of the story **
 * 1) Who would have not thought your person was not a hero?
 * 2) What did they do?
 * 3) How did they try to stop your hero?
 * 4) How did you hero avoid being squished?
 * Paragraph 6--What is the person's legacy?**
 * Hellen Keller left behind with her the inspiration of everything that she did. She left behind knowing how to do things that normally, only children with sight and hearing could accomplish. She proved to people with and without disabilties that she was not a normal girl. She was " the wild child," as she put it, because she didn't want anyone doing anything for her. She soon learned though, that by letting people help her, lets her get better at things.**

Identify a 21st century problem. If your person was alive today what advice would they have for you on how to deal with the problem. This is your conclusion based on your research. It needs to reflect your research and not be an "off the street" answer.
 * Paragraph 7-- **** What advice would they have for today’s youth for dealing with a current issue? **
 * A problem that Helen would probably give advice on is schools. Like not enough programs for disabled children. Helen loved to learn, so she would probably advice people who work at the school to hire more people who can work with disabled children. Another thing that Helen would probably advice about is if their is a shortage on books or able to put new books into schools, she would probably advice the children to do some fundraising. Sell things they don't need, or things that the school put up for fundraising, maybe have lemonade stands or even car washes. Things that could help the school financially if needed.**

As you are researching think of three creative commons copyrighted images you could use to represent your person and place them on your page

When you have enough research to prove that your person is a hero write your essay and submit it to the [|My Hero] website. Place it first on your wiki page, and then cut and paste it over to the My Hero website. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT WHEN REGISTERING THAT FOR "SCHOOL" YOU WRITE **MORAN MIDDLE SCHOOL**. Your proposal should follow the same format as your notes! Sign-up with the website and follow their directions! Example of Essay on Wiki [|Example of accepted essays] on //**My Hero**// website from Moran Students--keep in mind not all written for same purpose or format as yours

Helen Keller Helen Keller is in many ways a hero, for she was blind and deaf, yet overcame the problems put in her way because she knew how to read and write. Why I think this is because she was able to do things in her time that people would think not possible. Helen is a hero because she learned how to read and write thanks to her teacher, Anne Sullivan. I will prove in this essay that she is a hero, because learning to do these things at such a young age is really amazing. Helen was born in 1880 and died in 1968. She lived in Tuscumbia, Alabama in Ivy Green. Back then, children who were blind and deaf, which was most definitely not common, were more known as lost causes, because they were really hard to work with. Since they didn’t know when someone was coming, they didn’t want anyone near them. So she proved that back then, she could do the “impossible.” She was determined to be a normal girl; she wanted to be, so she did what she could. Learning to read and write shows that she just wanted to be a normal girl. Learning to read and write was very important because she wanted to prove to people that she was different than others. She was learning how to read and write in Braille, which was very important. She meets my definition because my definition is “A person who overcomes obstacles put in their way”, and she does that because back then learning how to read and write was just not all that easy, and she was able to accomplish so much because of it. So learning how to read and write when she couldn’t hear nor see is really amazing. An obstacle put in her way was the fact that she had to read with hand motions on her hands. That must have been very hard for her to learn. Another obstacle is learning to read and write in Braille. She had to associate the hand motion words that Anne taught her with the words that Braille meant. An obstacle that must have been very hard to overcome is the fact that she wasn’t born blind and deaf. At the age of 19 months she became very sick and caused her to lose her sight and hearing, so going to hearing and seeing some things to nothing at all, would make life very unhappy. She was able to impact lives because she was able to prove that she could do the unthinkable. So the quote I picked from her is “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” I think that her quote goes along very well with her obstacles. Helen is also a hero because she was able to learn how to do things that other normal children did. Something that she learned how to do was ride horses, even if she couldn’t see the track. She had a guide, but still she learned. Something else she learned how to do was speak. Learning to speak when you’re deaf is really hard because hearing your voice lets you know it’s your voice. She couldn’t but she learned how! Something else she learned how to do was dance. Learning how to dance when you’re blind and deaf is hard because you can not see what the instructor is doing, and you can not hear the music for your timing. By learning how to do all these things she proved to so many people that she wasn’t a normal disabled child, she was different and she wanted to make sure people knew it. The perfect quote of hers to go along with this is, “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” It goes along perfectly with this. Helen Keller left behind with her the inspiration of everything that she did. She left behind knowing how to do things that normally, only children with sight and hearing could accomplish. She proved to people with and without disabilities that she was not a normal girl. She was "the wild child," as she put it, because she didn't want anyone doing anything for her. Although that might be because she was always scared, she wouldn’t know when someone was coming or if someone understood her. She soon learned though, that by letting people help her, lets her get better at things. So she left behind a great inspiration. A problem that Helen would probably give advice on is schools. Like not enough programs for disabled children. Helen loved to learn, so she would probably advice people who work at the school to hire more people who can work with disabled children. Another thing that Helen would probably advice about is if their is a shortage on books or able to put new books into schools, she would probably advice the children to do some fundraising. Sell things they don't need, or things that the school put up for fundraising, maybe have lemonade stands or even car washes. Things that could help the school financially if needed. Anything to help the children, she would want the children to have a good education.

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