Literary Nonfiction
1. An author's perspective is influenced partly by life experiences. Give an example of a life experience from the chapter you read from The Story of My Life that shows a change in Keller's perspective.
2. Explain how an implicit or explicit detail in the chapter helps you make an inference about the young Helen Keller.
3. Describe two details from Keller's narrative that support this purpose: to inform readers about the experience of having vision and hearing impairments. Explain how the details support this purpose.
4. Keller asks the readers if they have "ever been at sea in a dense fog." She goes on to develop that question with more details. Describe how her use of figurative language in this part of the chapter helps you to understand her perspective.
5. Keller tells this story as an adult, looking back on a day many years in the past. Based on details in the chapter, what inference can you make about events that took place in the years between the day Keller learned that everything has a name and the time she's writing this chapter? How does the inference you make help you to understand Keller's message?
