Next Week: Award- winning books Issue 13, 2017 Founded by Betty Debnam Mini Fact: The world opens up Helen could Anne Sullivan taught Helen to Helen remember experience nature by touch and smell. They people’s had many of their classes outdoors. All of handshakes her life, Helen loved nature and outdoor Keller’s years after last activities. meeting them Helen learned to speak by feeling how and identify Sullivan’s mouth moved when she spoke. hundreds of She learned to read and write French, Miracle plants by their smell. German, Greek and Latin in Braille. She Imagine what life would be like if you on the family’s property so she could teach even learned to play could not see or hear. Imagine you did not her without the family’s chess. know any way to communicate with other interference. In just two Throughout her people. Imagine being shut inside a confusing weeks, Sullivan taught her life, Helen traveled, Braille is a form of speaking and raising writing where letters world with no way to ask for help. much about how to behave. are formed by raised Helen Keller lived in such a world. When However, when they money for causes dots. she was 19 months old, she became very ill. returned to the family such as the American The disease left her blind and deaf. house, Helen continued Foundation for the Blind, women’s right to But in the spring of 1887, a special teacher to throw tantrums vote, peace and ending poverty. She also came to work with Helen. The progress they occasionally. worked to change laws so that people with made together came to be known as Helen Helen, left, and disabilities could go to school and have jobs The miracle Anne Sullivan in like other people. Keller’s “miracle.” One day, during a 1888. Helen as a child tantrum, Anne Sullivan World travels Helen Keller grew up in Tuscumbia, made Helen come out to the yard. While she Between 1946 and 1957, Helen traveled Alabama. She was a smart, loving child. But pumped water into Helen’s hand, she spelled to 35 countries, meeting leaders such as she also misbehaved a lot. out “w-a-t-e-r” using a special hand alphabet. Winston Churchill of Great Britain and Her parents felt so bad that she couldn’t And then the miracle happened. Suddenly Golda Meir of Israel. She visited blinded see or hear that they didn’t teach her proper Helen understood. She understood that what and wounded soldiers during World War II. behavior. Helen also acted naughty when she her teacher was spelling stood for actual water. She met other famous people and received couldn’t communicate with others. She realized words had meaning. honorary degrees from several universities. She wandered around the table, grabbing Sullivan had been working with Helen Helen died at her home in Connecticut food from other people’s plates. One time she for only a month. That day alone she learned in 1968 at age 87. locked her mother in a cupboard. She bit and about 30 words. scratched people. A new world Anne Sullivan Anne Sullivan opened up Helen Keller’s Resources When Helen was about 7 years old, Anne world when she taught Helen to communicate Sullivan came to live with and teach Helen. through the hand, or manual, alphabet. On the Web: Sullivan knew she had to be strict with her A blind and deaf person can “read” words • braillebug.afb.org/ naughty student. For example, she would not by feeling the hand of the other person. hkmuseum.asp let Helen eat until Helen sat properly, with The person spells out words in the palm of her napkin on her lap. At rst Helen rebelled, the blind and deaf person’s hand. It is very At the library: ghting her teacher for hours. close to the sign-language alphabet that deaf • “I Am Helen Keller” by Brad Meltzer Anne Sullivan took Helen to a little cottage people use to communicate by sight. • “Helen Keller” by Margaret Davidson The Mini Page® © 2017 Andrews McMeel Syndication Based on materials originally produced and/or created by Betty Debnam. Try ’n’ Find Mini Jokes Words that remind us of Helen Keller are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally, George: What number and some letters are used twice. See if you can fi nd: does a pig dial when it needs help? ALABAMA, ALPHABET, R M L Q W N A U G H T Y H R J Gordon: Swine-one-one! ANNE, BLIND, BRAILLE, E B X U V A M A B A L A E L M CHESS, COMMUNICATE, H F A E D K E L L E R T L A I DEAF, HELEN, KELLER, C N A V I L L U S P A R E U R Eco Note MANUAL, MIRACLE, A D N I L B O S N W H W N N A NATURE, NAUGHTY, E G N L E V A R T A B A K A C British researchers have PROGRESS, SULLIVAN, T C O M M U N I C A T E B M L found LED streetlights harm TANTRUM, TEACHER, C H E S S G T A N T R U M E E insects and wildlife even though they E N N A E L L I A R B I R J T save energy. A study by the University of TRAVEL, WATER. Exeter found the lights attracted spiders H P R O G R E S S W X F Y E V and beetles more than regular street lamps, increasing the bugs’ damage to vegetation and other species. Lights dimmed by 50 percent attract fewer Cook’s Corner insects. adapted with permission from Earthweek.com Green Angel Hair With Black Olives You’ll need: • 2 tablespoons grated • 12 ounces angel hair pasta parmesan cheese Thank You • 2/3 cup prepared basil pesto • 1/2 cup sliced black • 1/2 cup chopped oil-packed sun-dried olives The Mini Page thanks tomatoes Helen Selsdon, archivist, American Foundation for the Blind, for help with What to do: this issue. 1. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and transfer to a large bowl. 2017 Andrews McMeel Syndication 2. Add pesto and sun-dried tomatoes and stir to coat pasta. © Teachers: 3. Transfer to a serving platter and top with parmesan cheese and olives. For standards-based activities to accompany this feature, visit: The Mini Page® bbs.amuniversal.com/teaching_guides.html Adapted from “The Robin Takes 5 Cookbook for Busy Families” with permission from Andrews McMeel Publishing (andrewsmcmeel.com). help with this recipe. need an adult’s * You’ll Puzzling Unscramble the words below that remind us of learning. usytd ebsoerv eharcesr ciptrcae Answers: study, observe, research, practice. practice. research, observe, study, Answers:.