Unit 3Amazing people教材背景链接教材背景链接她她为女女权而而战、投投身身工工人人事事业、促促进弱弱势团体体平平等等权利利、支支持持受受苦苦和和受受压迫迫的的人人。她她还荣荣获日日本本、巴巴西西、黎黎巴巴嫩嫩等等国国颁发的的几几项荣荣誉誉奖。知道她是。知道她是谁吗？Helen Keller was born a healthy child in 1880 in Alabama. Stricken by illness at the tender age of nineteen months, Helen lost her ability to see, hear, and speak. Growing up unable to comprehend the world around her, Helen became wild and unruly, until her parents found help.They contacted Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the famous inventor and teacher of the deaf, who introduced them to an institute for the blind in Boston, Massachusetts. A student there, Annie Sullivan, was asked to help. Annie would later become known as the “Miracle Worker.”Annie Sullivan taught Helen how to connect objects with letters by spelling words into Helens hands. Helens breakthrough came when Annie held her hand under a water pump while spelling “water” into her other hand repeatedly. Helen suddenly understood, and from then on progressed by leaps and bounds.Having mastered both the manual and Braille alphabets, Helen became proficient in reading and writing, and began learning how to speak in 1890. Helen entered Radcliffe College and, assisted by Annie Sullivan, graduated cum laude in 1904. She was the first blinddeaf person ever to graduate from college.Helen Keller spent the rest of her life as a writer, lecturer, and advocate for the deaf and blind and other disadvantaged groups. She traveled to numerous countries on behalf of the disabled, and founded the Helen Keller Endowment Fund for the American Foundation for the Blind in 1930. She died on June 1, 1968, an outstanding example of the unconquerable human spirit.新课导入新课导入骐骥一跃，不能十步；驽马十驾骐骥一跃，不能十步；驽马十驾,功在不舍。功在不舍。成功的秘诀不在于一蹴而就，而在于你是否成功的秘诀不在于一蹴而就，而在于你是否能够持之以恒。那些成功人士，正是掌握了能够持之以恒。那些成功人士，正是掌握了这个秘诀才取得了令人羡慕的成就。这个秘诀才取得了令人羡慕的成就。