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English 9

Quarter 2, Week 3

Act 1: List the five senses.

What is the importance of each of them?

How one’s life would change without them?

The main character in this play has lost two of them.

Overview of the story behind

The Miracle Worker

.

Act 2: Vocabulary

for Act I: oculist, inarticulate, intimations, pinafore, caricature, imperious, acute, vivacious, voluminous, asperity

Take roles, and read the play.

At the end of the period, discuss the characters their desires, their motivations and their obstacles.

Helen Keller:

A Chronology

June 27, 1880: Helen Keller born in Tuscumbia, Alabama

February 1881: Helen becomes deaf and blind

March 3, 1888: Annie Sullivan arrives in Tuscumbia

1900: Helen goes to college at Radcliff

1902-1903: Helen writes her book,

The Story of My Life

1904: Helen graduates from college

1924: Helen works for the American Foundation for the Blind

1930: Helen takes her first trip abroad, traveling to Europe

October 20, 1936: Annie Sullivan dies

1957: First production of “The Miracle Worker”

June 1, 1968: Helen Keller dies

Study Questions

Act 3. Vocabulary for Act II: nettled, temperance, nonplused, feigned, compunction, intractably, glower, to disinter, impassively, paroxysm

Finish reading Act I.

 Pass out the Character chart. Have students fill it out and discuss.

MW Act I Study Questions:

Where does the Keller family live?

What does Keller do for a living?

What is James’ solution to the problem of Helen?

What presents do the children given Annie?

Why is Annie late in getting to the Keller’s?

What is it that the

Kellers

can’t find at the end of Act I?

Where is it?

Quotations

MW Act I

“This child has more sense than all these men

Kellers

, if there’s ever any way to reach that mind of hers.”

“I think God must owe me a resurrection.”

“Every day she slips further away. And I don’t know how to call her back.”

“Deaf, blind, mute – who knows? She is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open. Perhaps there is a treasure inside

.”

MW Act II

Act 5: Write about a time from your childhood when you got lost. How did it happen? How did you feel?

Act

6. With

your group, discuss and write answers to “Interpreting Meanings” 9-14 on page 513.

Study Questions

Act 7. Interpreting Meanings, p. 533 9-14

Act 8. Act

II Study Questions:

Why does Captain Keller think that Annie should be fired?

What defense for allowing Annie to stay does Kate offer?

What does Annie propose should be done?

What do we learn about the strained relationship between Captain Keller and his son?

How does Annie get Helen to let her touch her?

Quotations

Act II

“

The, more, I, think, the, more, certain, I, am, that, obedience, is, the, gateway, through, which, knowledge, enters, the, mind, of, the, child, - “

“

Annie. Does it hurt, to be dead?”

“One thing that girl’s secret is not, she doesn’t fire one shot and disappear

.”

 Begin Act 3

Finish Act 3

Discuss Study

Questions

Vocab

Quiz

Act III Study questions:

At the beginning of the act, the two weeks are up. What change do we see in Helen?

What has Annie failed to do with Helen?

Why won’t the

Kellers

give Annie more time?

What does Annie say God owes her?

At the Keller dining table, what is it that Helen does that attracts everyone’s attention?

Why does Annie drag Helen outside?

Quotations

Act III

“At least we – Could you – be my friend?”

“I treat her like a seeing child because I ask her to see, I expect her to see, don’t undo what I do!”

She’s right, Kate’s right, I’m right, and you’re wrong.”

Thursday

Watch portions of The Miracle Worker when Helen knocks Annie’s tooth out.

When Annie gets Helen to eat out of her own plate.

The last scene at dinner when Helen finally makes the connection between objects and their names.

Friday

Miracle Worker Test