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Timeline where are famous people are.

• Beethoven was in the timeline of 1770-1827

• Helen Keller was in the timeline of 1880-1968

• The Year Of Miss Agnes 1948

• Marlee Matlin was in the timeline of 1965(still alive)

Beethoven Beethoven composed all 9 symphonies between 1799

and 1899• He studied under Haydn for less then a year in 1794• In 1801 he wrote a letter to his friend about his loss of

hearing• In 1772 he to Vienna• At age 8 he studied theory and played piano• In his teenage years he performed playing piano• Beethoven was born in December 17, 1770- Bonn• Beethoven died in March 26, 1827- Vienna• Western Germany- Bonn• Vienna- Republic Australia• Beethoven and Hayhn Branms• Parents were Johann and Maria Magdalena

Helen Keller• Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880• Born healthy, but got very sick when 2 years old

• Got better but left her blind and deaf • Couldn’t talk• Helen didn’t always get along well with others

• Helen’s parents took Helen to Dr. Alexander Gram Bell

• Dr. Alexander Graham bell ran a school to teach deaf people

• He told them about sign language and how to find a teacher

• Annie Sullivan became Helen’s teacher

Helen Keller         Everyday they studied spelling words Annie and Helen had a lot

of fights Annie wanted Helen to listen to her but Helen did not like that idea.

        Helen’s parents never punished her when she was bad because they felt sorry for her, but Annie knew she had to learn to be good so she had to punish her.

        Everyday Helen got better and better when Annie taught her         Annie took her out to a water pump one day and she put her

hands under the water and she spelled water and she understood what words were now

        Now she could talk to people and people could talk to her by their fingers

        Helen learned to read and write in Braille. In Braille, words are reaised dots that blind people can feel.

Helen Keller        Helen also learned to lip-read by

touching people’s faces        When Helen was a teenager she

learned to speak        When Helen was 20 she went to

college        Even know Helen was blind and deaf

she spent her life helping blind and deaf people and she even wrote many books

        Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968