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Miracle Worker Project

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Write a haiku poem

Access the following web sites for examples and requirements for a haiku. Make sure you utilize vivid imagery and active verbs in the poem. Then utilizing the web sites below prepare to present your haiku in sign language. You must also submit a typed version of your poem.

Web sites for writing haiku

http://www.arttech.ab.ca/pbrown/haiku/lesson1.html http://cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/Start-Writing.html http://jfg.girlscouts.org/Space/Poetry/WriteHaiku.htm http://www.worddance.com/magazine/worksheet.html
http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

Web sites for Sign Language/Alphabet

http://www.handspeak.com/
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
http://where.com/scott.net/asl/
http://www.iwaynet.net/~ggwiz/asl/
http://www.bconnex.net/~randys/
http://www.where.com/scott.net/asl/
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/asl.html
http://www.funbrain.com/signs/
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
http://www.handspeak.com/abc/az.html

Write a one-page report on one of the following topics derived from The Miracle Worker. The report must be typed and presented to the class. You must include citations in the report verifying the source of the materials.

Perkins Institute for the Blind

The Reconstructionist Period of the South

Theater Techniques/Staging Directions

19th Century Treatment of the Blind

19th Century Asylums

Poor Houses/Work Houses/Almshouses

Types of Blindness

Education for the Blind/Deaf

Orphanages of Early America

Transportation in the 19th Century

Treatment for the Mentally Ill in Early America

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