Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.3c
The Standard
- SS24.5.3
- Describe Progressive Era social reforms in both the United States and Alabama.
Summarize Helen Keller’s life and her contributions to disability rights.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students tell how Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing as a young child and learned to communicate with Anne Sullivan’s help. They explain how Keller used writing and public speaking to seek better opportunities for people with disabilities.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can put key events in order, from Keller’s childhood illness to her work with the American Foundation for the Blind. They can name a change she worked for, such as better access to education.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Keller was born deaf and blind, or that Sullivan taught her to hear and see. They may focus on how Keller learned to communicate and miss her work for people with disabilities.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Put these in order: childhood illness, learning with Sullivan, college graduation, work with the American Foundation for the Blind. Then name one change Keller worked for.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use a braille alphabet chart and raised-dot stickers to build the letter H, then compare it with a printed H.
Ask students to write two sentences answering, “How did Keller use her writing and speeches to help people with disabilities?”
Give pairs four event cards and have them race to place Keller’s childhood illness, Sullivan’s arrival, graduation, and advocacy work in order.
Show a photo of an elevator button with braille and print, then ask how both labels help people use it.
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