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Evaluating Text: Helen Keller's "My Life" WorksheetEvaluating Text: Helen Keller's "My Life" Worksheet
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K12 Reader
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
30 mins
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Projection
Year
2012
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Evaluating Text: Helen Keller's "My Life"

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Readers are asked to evaluate Helen Keller's claim, and the evidence she uses to support her argument, that it is more difficult for hearing impaired children to learn to talk with others.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

helen keller

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Conduct a mini-lesson on American Sign Language or invite a speaker from the Society for the Blind to address the class

Classroom Considerations

  • The comprehension exercise can be used independently of reading Keller's autobiography, My Life
  • The exercise is designed to address Common Core standards

Pros

  • The worksheet includes an answer sheet

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.8.8

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