【课堂新坐标】(教师用书)2013-2014 学年高中英语 Unit 16 Stories 教案 北师大版必修 5【美文阅读】 海伦·凯勒,美国著名的盲聋女作家、教育家,她是怎样识字,又是怎样理解字义的呢?Helen Keller“The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher,Anne Mansfield Sullivan ,came to me.I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable( 无 限 的 ) contrasts between the two lives which it connects.It was the third of March,1887,three months before I was seven years old.”so wrote Helen Keller.The morning after the arrival of her teacher,Helen was led into a room and given a doll.After she had played with it for a while ,Miss Sullivan slowly spelt the letters “doll” into her hand.At once Helen was interested in this finger play and tried to imitate her teacher.When she finally succeeded in forming the letters correctly,she was filled with pleasure and pride.Excitedly she found her way to her mother,held up her hand and wrote the letters for “doll” . And in the days that followed , she learned to spell a great many words in this way.Helen soon learned,however,that things and actions had names.One day when she was playing with her new doll , Miss Sullivan placed the doll on her lap,made her touch it again and wrote the letters “doll”on the palm(手掌)of her hand.This was repeated several times until Helen associated the word with the object.“Once,as we were walking down the road to the well,I was attracted by some strange smell in the air.I asked , ‘ What is that strange smell in the air?’Miss Sullivan led me to the well.Someone was drawing water.She took my hand and placed it under the flowing water.”As the cool water washed Helen's hand , Miss Sulli...