HELEN KELLER

FACTS ABOUT HER EARLY LIFE

• She was born June ,27th,1880
• In Tuscumbia, Alabama
• She was the first daughter born to
• Arthur H. Keller and Katherine Adams Keller

MORE FACTS ABOUT HER EARLY LIFE

• In 1882 Helen became ill
• Her doctor said the disease she had was called brain fever
• A fews days later her mother started to notice some weird things.
• When the dinner bell was rung Helen didn't seem to hear it.
• And when a hand was waved in front of her face she didn't seem to see it.

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• Then they realized that she has lost both
• her senses of sight of hearing
• and she was only 18 months old.

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• When she got older she found out how to communicate
• with her friend Martha Washington.
• Some examples of how she would communicate is
• when she got upset she would kick and cry

EDUCATION

• Her parents started to look for an educator they
• looked all over the place but they finally found Anne Sullivan
• It was hard to teach Helen but she finally figured out how
• by taking her to the water pump outside and putting water over
• her hand. Anne taught Helen 30 words in one day,

More Education and her story

• In 1892 she attended school at the Cambridge School for young ladies
• People wanted to meet her as her story spread. Mark Twain meet her
• Then she wrote her first book called The Story of My Life.
• Her book is about how she transformed from a little girl
• to a college student. Her book was then used for a TV show called the Miracle Worker

Her leagacy

• Helen won many awards
• an example is the Presidential Medal of Freedom in1964
• Helen suffered from many strokes.
• And she died on June 1st, 1968 in Easton, Connecticut
• She is a great symbol of hard-work and determination that can lead to success

MALALA YOUSAFZAI

Facts about her

• Born on July,12,1997 in Mingora Pakistan
• Malala attends the school that her father founded
• After the Taliban attacked some girls schools in near by cities
• she made a speech about why they are taking away their right of education

MORE FACTS

• In the year 2009 she began to blog for t he BBC
• But she had to hide her identity she by using the name Gui Makai
• In the year 2011 she was nominated for the International Childern's Peace Prize
• When she was 14 her and her family found out that the Taliban had threatened her

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• In 2012 in Oct. A man followed Malala onto the school bus
• He demanded to know which one was Malala.
• Her friends turned their head revealing where she was
• She got hit in the left side of the head and also hit her neck
• They flew her to a near by hospital immediately

She wrote her own books

• An autobiography called I am Malala
• And a book called The girl who stood up for
• Education but was shot by the Taliban

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• Even though the Taliban think she is still a threat
• she still stands up for education
• And she was nominated for the Noble Peace Prize

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