Helen Keller Blog Post 3

Title: The Story of my Life
Author: Helen Keller
Genra: Autobuography

1. What does it mean to be a ‘self-actualized’ human being?
"The motivation to realize one's own maximum potential and possibilities. It is considered to be the master motive or the only real motive, all other motives being its various forms." In my words I think it is to aim as high as one can in their situation.

2. What is one unique thing you have discovered about your figure?

One unique thing I discovered about Helen Keller is that she would often throw tantrums to express her anger.

3. Describe your figure’s schooling & education?

Helen Keller Education

Radcliffe College

(1900–1904)

Wright-Humason School for the Deaf

(1894–1896)

Perkins School for the Blind

Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

The Cambridge School of Weston

Helen had a teacher named Anne Sullivan who thought how to read and write and also how to speak.  

SUMMARY OF BOOK SO FAR: 
After providing brief descriptions of her home in Alabama and her family members, Keller explains how she became disabled a fever she had when she was nineteen months old left her blind and deaf and her first memories of being disabled, recounting her early attempts to communicate. Keller reviews her parents' efforts to find her medical treatment and educational assistance, as well as her early experiences with her first teacher, Anne Sullivan. Following the illness that left her blind and deaf, Keller got accustomed to the darkness and the silence but retained the memories of the sights and sounds she had enjoyed before her illness. Keller devised a simple system of gestures and tried very hard to make herself understood by her family. She knew when she was being difficult, but she felt she had to resort to fits of temper and frustration. Currently she is starting to tell about Anne Sullivan!
This is the cover of the first book that was published!