Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker
Study Guide
Foreword
The Miracle Worker depicts the themes of discipline, learning, growth, family respect and communication, and hope. Helen Keller, a young southern blind and deaf girl becomes aware of language, love, and obedience, which changes not only her future but the lives of everyone else connected to her, especially her family. Annie Sullivan, her slum-bred, half-blind teacher dedicates herself to releasing Helen from the prison of silence and unknowing. Students can be encouraged to select a project as a team and present their discoveries to the class or to choose themes individually and respond in written or other form.
Contents
• Dear Educator • Program Information • About the Production • Historic Issues • Asylums, Blind-Deaf Schools • Hope • Discipline & Obedience • Manners & Customs • Motivation & Self-Understanding • Dedication to a Cause • Tactile Learning & Sign Language • Language & Communication • Places of Learning & Change • Family Systems & Outsiders • Pity versus Love • Bibliography • Fingerspelling Chart • Teacher Evaluation Form
Our Appreciation
Thank you for your interest. It is our pleasure to make this event available to you.
The Unitarian Universalist
Social Concerns Committee
& The Great Midwestern
Educational Theatre Company
Copyright 2005, Karen Buechele for GMETC
Dear Educator:
Thank you for your interest in The Miracle Worker, a special project of the Great Midwestern Educational Theatre Company (GMETC). We are looking forward to your upcoming visit to our performance.
This Study Guide includes a variety of activities and discussion questions that focus on themes of social concern in the play. The activities and questions are aimed at students from the 6-12th grades. Please look the activities over carefully and select the items that you feel are most appropriate for your students’ developmental levels.
Getting
Study Guide
Foreword
The Miracle Worker depicts the themes of discipline, learning, growth, family respect and communication, and hope. Helen Keller, a young southern blind and deaf girl becomes aware of language, love, and obedience, which changes not only her future but the lives of everyone else connected to her, especially her family. Annie Sullivan, her slum-bred, half-blind teacher dedicates herself to releasing Helen from the prison of silence and unknowing. Students can be encouraged to select a project as a team and present their discoveries to the class or to choose themes individually and respond in written or other form.
Contents
• Dear Educator • Program Information • About the Production • Historic Issues • Asylums, Blind-Deaf Schools • Hope • Discipline & Obedience • Manners & Customs • Motivation & Self-Understanding • Dedication to a Cause • Tactile Learning & Sign Language • Language & Communication • Places of Learning & Change • Family Systems & Outsiders • Pity versus Love • Bibliography • Fingerspelling Chart • Teacher Evaluation Form
Our Appreciation
Thank you for your interest. It is our pleasure to make this event available to you.
The Unitarian Universalist
Social Concerns Committee
& The Great Midwestern
Educational Theatre Company
Copyright 2005, Karen Buechele for GMETC
Dear Educator:
Thank you for your interest in The Miracle Worker, a special project of the Great Midwestern Educational Theatre Company (GMETC). We are looking forward to your upcoming visit to our performance.
This Study Guide includes a variety of activities and discussion questions that focus on themes of social concern in the play. The activities and questions are aimed at students from the 6-12th grades. Please look the activities over carefully and select the items that you feel are most appropriate for your students’ developmental levels.
Getting
Bibliography: Keller, Helen. Light in my Darkness, New York, Doubleday, 1927. Keller, Helen. Midstream—My Later Life, New York, Doubleday, 1929. Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence, New York, Bantam Books, 1995. Capacchione, Lucia. The Creative Journal for Teens, California, Newcastle Publishing, 1992. Miller, Timothy. How to Want What You Have, New York, Henry Holt & Sons, 1994.