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What was the first word Anne tried to teach Helen Keller?
Anne Sullivan tried to teach Helen the word water.
How old was Helen Keller when she learned sign language?
Yes she did, before Annie Sullivan came, she used her own rudimentary "home signs" to communicate to the household what she wanted. When Annie came, Annie struggled to teach her the concept of names for objects, and Annie was always finger spelling to Helen. Finger spelling is the sign language alphabet. Helen would copy Annie's fingers, but Helen didn't understand that the letters represented something. Helen's breakthrough was with the word WATER. Annie and Helen were at the water pump, and Annie spelled W-A-T-E-R into Helen's hand. It was then that a light bulb went off in Helen's head, and she understood. Helen then asked who Annie was, and Annie said Teacher. Annie would read books to Helen, spelling the words into Helen's hand until her hands were sore. Helen gave great speeches this way, spelling into Annie's hand who would say the words aloud.
What was Helen's sign language first word?
H2o or water
How did Annie startle Helen in the miracle worker?
In "The Miracle Worker," Annie takes Helen's doll and places it under the water pump, spelling out the word "water" into Helen's hand. When Helen makes the connection between the word and the water flowing over her hand, she is startled and begins to understand language for the first time.
What was Helen Keller's first sign language word?
Helen Keller's first sign language word was "water," which she learned to sign after connecting the sensation of water flowing over her hand to the fingerspelled word "water" that her teacher, Anne Sullivan, imprinted on her other hand.
Where was Helen Keller when she said her first word?
Helen Keller said her first word at her family's home in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, who taught her the sign language for the word "water" while Helen was feeling water flowing over her hand.
In The Miracle Worker what senses did Annie use to teach Helen?
touch, through the use of sign language and actually touching objects, to create a correlation between the sign language word and the actual object and pooing on every thing
Why does Annie feel that if she teaches Helen only one word she has taught her everything?
Annie believes that if she can teach Helen the concept behind one word, such as "water," it will open the door to Helen understanding that everything has a name and can be communicated. This foundational concept can then be applied to other words and lead to Helen's ability to communicate more effectively.
What was the 1st word Helen understood?
The first word that Helen Keller understood was "water." This breakthrough happened when her teacher, Anne Sullivan, used sign language to spell the word into her hand while running water over her other hand. Helen then made the connection between the word and the sensation of the water.
How did Helen Keller know what was being signed into her hand?
There was a sign for each letter in the alphabet. Someone would sign each letter one by one into her hand and she could feel what they looked like. Over time she learned them better and could understand them very fast. If you want to know how she understood that each word had a meaning its like this. Her teacher, Annie Sullivan would sign the word into Helen's hand. Following in that, she would let Helen feel and or smell the object, say, a cookie. Then she would sign it again and again. After a month of this and other words, Helen finally understood one afternoon at the pump while feeling the "water"
What was important to Helen Keller?
Anne Sullivan is very important to Helen because she helped her all through life. Dolls are important to her to because that was the first word she learned in sign language.
What is the climax of the miracle worker in act 1?
In act 1 is where you first meet Helen in the 1880s. She is in her crib with her parents and the doctor standing over her. Her parents fear she wont live from a severe illness but the doctor tells them that Helen will be fine. The doctor leaves and Helen's mom, Kate stares over her baby and quickly makes a discovery that she is blind and deaf which is caused by the illness. Five years later and Helen grows up to be a spoiled, mean little girl. No one knows how to tame her. Helen's mother then persuades Mr. Keller, Hellen's father to pay a young women by the name of Annie Sullivan to help there child read and write. Mr.Keller is skeptical because Miss. Sullivan is from the North and Mr. Keller is a confederate officer but agrees anyway. Miss. Sullivan arrives at the Kellers house and greets Helen. Soon after she arrives, Annie and Helen are in Annie's room while she's trying to teach Helen how to spell. Helen quickly gets frustrated and hits Annie in the mouth then locks her in her room and hides the key. No one knows where Annie is except Helen and James, Helen's half brother. James soon tells his father where Miss. Sullivan is and they panic. They run around looking for Helen and the key. Helen is by the water pump with no key so Mr. Keller gets a ladder and gets Annie out of her room. Annie and Helen are alone by the well and Helen takes the key out of her mouth and drops it in the well. This is the end of Act 1
