Hw did anne sullivan discipline helens
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When she first arrived at the Keller home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in March 1887, Sullivan discovered her task was going to be even more difficult than expected. Her pupil was not only blind and deaf; she was unruly and spoiled, prone to violent temper tantrums. Helen’s family, no doubt anguished over her illness, had indulged their strong-willed child. Within a week of her arrival, Sullivan removed Helen from the main house and took her to a nearby cottage where she could teach Helen the discipline she’d need to learn free from interference from Helen’s parents. Sullivan was constantly finding new ways to keep Helen engaged. She changed up her lesson plans and applied Helen’s learning to ideas and surroundings she could relate to. As Helen wrote years later, "For a long time I had no regular lessons. Even when I studied most earnestly it seemed more like play than work. Everything Miss Sullivan taught me she illustrated by a beautiful story or a poem.”Helen attributed her great thirst for knowledge largely to the choice menu of books Sullivan fed her. It was not enough that Helen defied the odds and learned to read. She was also given a delectable assortment of literary works that nurtured her mind and sparked an appetite for further learning.