Facebook Project – Your Name Facebook can help you connect and share history of people’s lives. You can complete one or more of the following pages on a historical figure. Insert the historical figures picture and name on each page you select to complete. INFO - Fill out as if you were that historical person. FRIENDS – Type in the name of the people who would have been involved with the historical figure. Put a picture or symbols for each friend. This could include people who were not their friends. WALL - This should be a time line of some important event. Pick one or more of the historical figures friend to set the time. It can be in years. Great place to use people who did not agree with them. PHOTOS –Use different pictures that illustrates aspects of their lives – family, important sites, etc. NOTES – Copy of a speech or short explanation of something that was important in their lives. All about Me Museum: This could be use by students to document their lives and likes. Contact if there is a problem with this SPECIAL NOTE: All pictures and facts must be end noted.

Helen Keller Birthday: I am: Education: Hometown: Work: Interested in: Philosophy: Places I have traveled : Other : 1890 attended Horace Mann School for the Deaf, 1894 to 1896 attended Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, 1896 attended Cambridge School for Young Ladies, 1904 graduated from Radcliff College (2) Tuscumbia, Alabama (2) Through my work I traveled to 35 countries on 5 continents (2) Female (2) June 27, 1880 (2) Counselor of International Relations for the American Foundation of Overseas Blind – , gave speeches, wrote autobiography (2) Social activism through giving speeches and helping others whenever possible (2) I was a socialist (2) My teacher Anne Sullivan helped and traveled with me until Anne’s death in 1936 (2) > Info

Helen Keller > Friends Anne Sullivan, teacher John Macy, Helen’s friend, Anne’s husband Polly Thomson, companion after Sullivan’s death Alexander Graham Bell, connected her to Sullivan, friend throughout life Max Eastman, journalist, friend of Keller

Helen Keller > Photos Anne and me right after she came to live with us in (8) Alexander Graham Bell and me. (8) At graduation from Radcliff College in (8) Reading Braille with blind children in Switzerland. (8) President Eisenhower and I met often in the 1950s to discuss how to help solders blinded in World War II. (8) Since I couldn’t hear or see, I could smell and feel very well. (8)

Helen Keller I am so glad you came to see me and that I was able to help you find Anne! - Alexander Graham Bell, 1886 (9)ham Bellham Bell I’m so glad I’ve met you through my marriage to Anne! - John Macy, 1905 (2) > Wall I am so happy I get to come stay with you and teach you! - Anne Sullivan, 1887 (2) I am so excited we get to go to Hollywood with Anne to work on the silent film Deliverance that is about your life! - Polly Thompson, 1914 (10)

Helen Keller > Notes “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” -Helen Keller (11) “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller (11) “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” -Helen Keller (11) “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” -Helen Keller (11) “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.” -Helen Keller (11)

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