The story of my life helen Keller Using the information you collected in your graphic organizer, write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the two texts. Use transition words like:
on the other hand
similarly
likewise
unlike
in comparison
in contrast
Your paragraph should:
include a topic sentence
use two to three pieces of textual evidence to show how the two texts are similar and different
contain a concluding sentence
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Answer:
My teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood
that everything had a name. One day, while I was playing with
my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap
also, spelled “d-o-l-l” and tried to make me understand that
“d-o-l-l” applied to both. Earlier in the day we had had a tussle
over the word “m-u-g.” Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it
upon me that “m-u-g” is mug and that “w-a-t-e-r” is water, but
I persisted in confounding the two.* In despair she had
dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first
opportunity. I became impatient at her repeated attempts*
and, seizing the new doll, I dashed it upon the floor. I felt my
teacher sweep the fragments to one side of the hearth, and
I had a sense of satisfaction that the cause of my discomfort
was removed.* She brought me my hat, and I knew I was going
out into the warm sunshine.*
2 We walked down the path to the well-house. Some one was
drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the
spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled
into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood
still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers.
Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something
forgotten—a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the
mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that
“w-a-t-e-r” meant the wonderful cool something that was
flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul,
gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
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