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Three Days To See
By Helen Keller
Three Days To See
Contents
Background Information
The Author: Helen Adams Keller
The Structure of this text
Further Discussion: The First Day
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Blackground Information
Helen Adams Keller
(1880–1968) : a
blind-deaf American
author and lecturer
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Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan vacationing at Cape Cod in July 1888
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Questions
™ Can
you find other models like Helen Keller
at home and abroad?
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Zhang Haidi(1955-): A Young
Model
1960年张海迪五岁时因患脊髓血管瘤导致高位截瘫
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Tai Lihua: A Deaf Dancer
邰丽华: 2006年中国青年五四奖章获得者;千手观音领舞者
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Beethoven(1770-1827): A Great Musician
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a Germancomposer and pianist.
The crucial figure in the transition
between the Classical and
Romantic eras in Western art
music, one of the most famous
and influential composers of all
time.
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Ninth Symphony贝多芬第九交响曲
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His hearing began to deteriorate in
the late 1790s, yet he continued to
compose, conduct, and perform,
even after becoming completely
deaf.
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Thomas Edison(1847-1931):
An Immortal Inventor
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Edison developed hearing
problems at an early age. His
deafness is attributed to a bout
of scarlet fever during
childhood and recurring
untreated middle-ear infections.
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the phonograph, the motion picture
camera, and electric light bulb.
Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park"
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Quotations:
"Genius is 1% inspiration, 99%
perspiration."
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Stephen Hawking(1942-): a great physicist
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Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS,
FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is an English
theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose
scientific books and public appearances have
made him an academic celebrity. He is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of
Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the highest civilian award in the United
States.
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Questions
™ How
do they stike you?
™ Could you find anything in common between
these models?
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Consider these questions:
When you look,
do you see?
When you listen,
do you hear?
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The Author: Helen Adams Keller
Blind-deaf American
author and lecturer
(1880-1968)
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Works and Honors
Works:
™ The Story of My Life
(1903): autobiography
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Honors:
•1964, President
Johnson awarded her the
Presidential Medal of
Freedom,
•1965 she was elected
to the National
Women's Hall of Fame
at the New York World's
Fair
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Helen Keller and Anne Sulliven Macy
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Her Life
Born
ill
In 1880,
Helen Keller
was born
with the
ability to see
and hear
At nineteen
months old
she fell ill
and lost the
ability to
see and
hear
Meet
Anne
On March
3, 1887,
Anne met
Helen
Famous
She learnt to
write, read, and
speak. She
proved how
magnificent the
blind and the
deaf could be
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Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan was herself partially
blind. She had studied at the Perkin's
Institute for the Deaf and Blind in
Boston, and at the age of 21 hired on
to live with the Keller family and work
with Helen
Anne Sullivan
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Saying
Everyone is an apple
bitten by God, so
nobody has no defect!
Maybe someone has
a bigger one, that is
only because God
especially love his or
her sweet-smelling
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The Structure of this text
Part one: para 1 to 4
Part two: para 5 to 7
Part three: para 8 to 9
Part four: para 10 to 11
Part five: para 12 to 20
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Part one: para 1 to 4
Some thrilling stories set us thinking: what we
should do under similar circumstances
We should live each day with a gentleness, a
vigor, and a keenness of appreciation.
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Part two: para 5 to 7
Most of us take life for granted.
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The same lethargy characterizes the use of all
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our faculties and senses.
It would be a blessing if each human being
were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some
time during his early adult life. Darkness would make
him more appreciative of sight; silence would tech
him the joys of sound.
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Part three: para 8 to 9
the seeing see little
My friends walk through the woods and see
nothing worthy of note.
the blind see a lot
I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest
me through mere touch.
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Part four: para 10 to 11
The author longs for seeing things.
If I were the president of a university I should establish a
compulsory course in "How to Use Your Eyes". The
professor would try to show his pupils how they could
add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes
unnoticed before them. He would try to awake their
dormant and sluggish faculties.
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Part five: para 12 to 20
How would you
use your own
eyes if you had
only three more
days to see？
I should want most
to see the things
which have become
dear to me through
my years of
darkness.
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The author
is longing
for seeing
things.
If she has
three days
to see, she
will …
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Further Discussion:The First Day
Why the author writes this essay?
™ What does the author want to see on the first
day ?
™ What do you think about the author’s opinion?
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Further Discussion:The First Day
Why the author writes this essay?
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Everyone knows that the author is disabled. She
is a blind. So, she want to see the same as the
healthy people, although it have only three days.
There is no doubt that this is an important
reason, but In my opinion , it’s not the main
reason. As a writer, she has a deeper reason.
More
information of
the deep reason
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Further Discussion:The First Day
Choose these sentences wrote by author as
examples:
1) Yet, those who have eyes apparently see
little.
2) For long ago I became convinced that the
seeing see little.
3) Their eyes and ears take in all sights and
sounds hazily, without concentration and with
little appreciation.
™ This is the criticism of normal people.
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Further Discussion:The First Day
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But the purpose of criticism is to educate.
The author is like a professor. She is teaching our “How
to Use Your Eyes”. This is the deeper reason.
So, the author imagines that if she were granted three
seeing days ,how she would use her eyes. It is obvious
that the author hopes us to make full use of our eyes,
especially as a means of adding fullness to life. As an
example, following, she show us what does she want to
see on the first day.
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Further Discussion:The First Day
What does the author want to see on the first day ?
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She wants to see the people whose kindness and
gentleness and companionship have made her life worth
living.
first she should like to gaze long upon the face of my
dear teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy.
she should call to her all her dear friends and look
long into their faces.
she should let her eyes rest on the face of a baby.
And she should like to look into the loyal, trusting eyes
of her dogs.
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Further Discussion:The First Day
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She should also view the small simple things of
her home.
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She want to see the warm colors in the rugs under her
feet, the pictures on the walls, the intimate trifles that
transform a house into home.
Her eyes would rest respectfully on the books in raised
type which she has read, but they would be more
eagerly interested in the printed books which seeing
people can read.
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Further Discussion:The First Day
In the afternoon of that first seeing day. She
should take a long walk in the woods intoxicate
her eyes on the beauties of the world of Nature
™ the glory of a colorful sunset.
™ When dusk had fallen, she should experience
the double delight of being able to see by
artificial light
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Further Discussion:The First Day
What do you think about the author’s opinion?
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The author thinks that the seeing see little, because Now
and them she have tested her seeing friends to discover
what they see, and their answers are all “nothing in
particular”.
In my opinion, the author Doesn't understand her seeing
friends or seeing people. Because what her friends
saying may be not true. They maybe see many things,
but they didn’t want to talk with the author because of
some reasons or no reason.
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Further Discussion:The First Day
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And the author’s friends or normal people can not
represent all the people or human. only good people can
represent us, such as Poet, painter, musician.
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are some of poem
A plume of smoke rises up into the evening sky of the
Great Desert, while the Yellow River dimmed as the
setting sun goes down (大漠孤烟直，长河落日圆)
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Further Discussion:The First Day
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I wander’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host , of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
The Daffodils
William Wordsworth
While the river wanders round the fresh strand, All flowers under
moonlight turned snow-white, Unnoticed in the air is frost in flight,
Invisible in the field is white sand. （江流宛转绕芳甸，月照花
林皆似霰。 空里流霜不觉飞，汀上白沙看不见。 张若虚
春江花月夜 ）
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Further Discussion:The First Day
It goes without saying that the poet can see
much, and I am greatly convinced that the poet
can represent human. the author only See the
surface of things, ignoring the essence of things
™ In conclusion, it is unnecessary for many people
to see as poet. They have their owe work. For
them, eyes are used as a conveniences In most
of the time. Helen Keller is a writer, a poet, “to
see” is her work, not being other people’s work.
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