Read the excerpt from the miracle worker by william gibson. children: [delighted] there’s another present! beatrice! we have a present for helen, too! give it to her, beatrice. here, annie! (this present is an elegant doll, with movable eyelids and a momma sound.) it’s for helen. and we took up a collection to buy it. and laura dressed it. annie: it’s beautiful! children: so don’t forget, you be sure to give it to helen from us, annie! annie: i promise it will be the first thing i give her. if i don’t keep it for myself, that is, you know i can’t be trusted with dolls! select the excerpt from the story of my life by helen keller that shows helen’s viewpoint of this event. a. my aunt made me a big doll out of towels. it was the most comical shapeless thing, this improvised doll, with no nose, mouth, ears or eyes—nothing that even the imagination of a child could convert into a face. b. the morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. the little blind children at the perkins institution had sent it and laura bridgman had dressed it; but i did not know this until afterward. c. one day, while i was playing with my new doll, miss sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also, spelled "d-o-l-l" and tried to make me understand that "d-o-l-l" applied to both. earlier in the day we had had a tussle over the words "m-u-g" and "w-a-t-e-r." d. dr. bell advised my father to write to mr. anagnos, director of the perkins institution in boston, the scene of dr. howe's great labours for the blind, and ask him if he had a teacher competent to begin my education.

Welcome to the vocabulary assessment. by connecting with words in a more interactive way, through a graphic organizer that includes your own ideas, we hope you will learn new vocabulary strategies to integrate into your course work and your everyday life. objectives: use a variety of techniques to acquire a range of words determine, clarify, and illustrate the meaning of unfamiliar words to ensure that you properly and successfully complete the vocabulary assessment, do the following: complete the assessment using the passage provided. select a word from the passage, and identify/create each of the following for that word: denotation connotations synonyms antonyms affixes the sentence from the passage where the word appears an original sentence using the word a memory trick type your responses in the appropriate boxes. after you have typed your responses, print your graphic organizer and submit it to your teacher. be careful not to refresh the page before printing, as some browsers will not save your work. passage from "the pit and the pendulum" by edgar allan poe very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and in my ears the sound of its beating. then a pause in which all is blank. then again sound, and motion, and touch, a tingling sensation pervading my frame. then the mere consciousness of existence, without thought, a condition which lasted long. then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state. then a strong desire to lapse into insensibility. then a rushing revival of soul and a successful effort to move. and now a full memory of the trial, of the judges, of the sable draperies, of the sentence, of the sickness, of the swoon. then entire forgetfulness of all that followed; of all that a later day and much earnestness of endeavor have enabled me vaguely to recall.

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