1. Helen Keller
By Valerie Rojas

2. Childhood She had to get a tutor to help her to learn how to read..
Helen Keller learned a lot from her tutor.
Helen Keller missed her mother and her mother missed her.

3. Helen Keller Helen was concerned about social issues.
Why in this land of great wealth is there great poverty?" she wrote in "Why [do] children toil in the mills while thousands of men cannot get work?”
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Helen was concerned about social issues.
She learned to read Braille.

4. Creative She stared to write a book about her life.
She wrote a lot of books and shared her experience with others.
Helen Keller enjoyed reading books.

5. Perseverance
Helen persevered because she overcame blindness and deafness.
Perseverance means to keep trying despite many obstacles that a person overcomes.
Helen went to college.

6. Helen Keller-Video Clips
Breakthrough
Dispelling Myths
Animated Hero Classics: Helen Keller. NEST unitedstreaming. 22 October 2006 <
Shattering Stereotypes: Cat's Eyes. AIMS Multimedia unitedstreaming. 22 October 2006 <

7. Helen helped other people. Caring
She visited hurt veterans in U.S. hospitals.
She also helped people with disabilities, including those with physical, learning and emotional disabilities. She did this because she overcame her own disability.
She helped them and they trusted her because she had her own disability.