Writing with Credible Sources Answers

The first-person point of view allows readers to

Which answer choice best states the difference between a memoir and a biography?

Read the excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.Dr. Bell advised my father to write to Mr. Anagnos, director of the Perkins Institution in Boston, the scene of Dr. Howe's great labours for the blind, and ask him if he had a teacher competent to begin my education. This my father did at once, and in a few weeks there came a kind letter from Mr. Anagnos with the comforting assurance that a teacher had been found. This was in the summer of 1886. But Miss Sullivan did not arrive until the following March.Which line from the excerpt shows the first-person point of view?

Based on the point of view of the text, which excerpt would most likely appear in Helen Keller’s memoir, The Story of My Life, and not The Miracle Worker by William Gibson?

What will the readers experience in a biographical play about Helen Keller that they will not experience in Helen Keller’s memoir?

Read the excerpt from The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.([ANNIE] is interrupted by a gasp: HELEN has stuck her finger and sits sucking at it, darkly. Then with vengeful resolve she seizes her doll and is about to dash its brains out on the floor when ANNIE, diving, catches it in one hand, which she at once shakes with hopping pain but otherwise ignores, patiently.)All right, let’s try temperance. (Taking the doll, she kneels, goes through the motion of knocking its head on the floor, spells into HELEN’S hand.)Bad, girl.(She lets HELEN feel the grieved expression on her face. HELEN imitates it. Next she makes HELEN caress the doll and kiss the hurt spot and hold it gently in her arms, then spells into her hand.)Good, girl.(She lets HELEN feel the smile on her face. HELEN sits with a scowl, which suddenly clears; she pats the doll, kisses it, wreathes her face in a large artificial smile, and bears the doll to the washstand, where she carefully sits it. ANNIE watches, pleased.)Very good girl -(Whereupon HELEN elevates the pitcher and dashes it on the floor instead. ANNIE leaps to her feet and stands inarticulate; HELEN calmly gropes back to the sewing card and needle.ANNIE manages to achieve self-control. She picks up a fragment or two of the pitcher, sees HELEN is puzzling over the card, and resolutely kneels to demonstrate it again. She spells into HELEN’S hand.Select the excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller that shows a different perspective of similar events.

Which line from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller contains imagery?

Read the excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.Which statement best describes the purpose of the imagery in the excerpt?

Read the excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.She had read his account of Laura Bridgman, and remembered vaguely that she was deaf and blind, yet had been educated. But she also remembered with a hopeless pang that Dr. Howe, who had discovered the way to teach the deaf and blind, had been dead many years. His methods had probably died with him; and if they had not, how was a little girl in a far-off town in Alabama to receive the benefit of them?Which words from the excerpt best show the author’s use of imagery?

Read the excerpt from The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.ANAGNOS: Deaf, blind, mute—who knows? She is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open. Perhaps there is a treasure inside.ANNIE: Maybe it’s empty, too?ANAGNOS: Possible. I should warn you, she is much given to tantrums.ANNIE: Means something is inside. Well, so am I, if I believe all I hear. Maybe you should warn them.ANAGNOS: [FROWNS]: Annie. I wrote them no word of your history. You will find yourself among strangers now, who know nothing of it.Next, read the excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.Dr. Bell advised my father to write to Mr. Anagnos, director of the Perkins Institution in Boston, the scene of Dr. Howe's great labours for the blind, and ask him if he had a teacher competent to begin my education. This my father did at once, and in a few weeks there came a kind letter from Mr. Anagnos with the comforting assurance that a teacher had been found. This was in the summer of 1886. But Miss Sullivan did not arrive until the following March.Based on the excerpts, how is the point of view in The Miracle Worker different from the point of view in The Story of My Life?