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Alexander Gassis

Mrs. Szymczak

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Annotated Bibliography

What happens to Helen Keller as she ages from six years old to sixteen?

Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)Helen Keller papers, 1842-1954. LC Online

Catalog - Item Information (Full Record), catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?
searchArg1=mm82028357&argType1=phrase&searchCode1=K010&searchType=2&com
bine2=and&searchArg2=&argType2=all&searchCode2=GKEY&combine3=and&searchA
rg3=&argType3=all&searchCode3=GKEY&location=all&place=all&type=all&language=
all&recCount=10. Accessed 7 Apr. 2017.
The source gives many physical items and short writings of facts about Helen

Keller. It gives Helens date of birth, her date of death, her parents and other small facts.

However, the source does not go into great detail about Helen. The source was primary

because the newspapers in the source were written by Arthur (Captain) Keller, who was

Helens father. Also there were photos taken of Helen while she was alive, plus

manuscripts written by Helen herself. The source tells how Helen adapted gradually to the

outside world as she grew. The source showed how Helen went around the country and

helped others just like her.

Helen Keller Biography. Helen Keller Biography, Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation
Inc., 2004,
helenkellerbirthplace.org/helenkellerbio/helen_keller_birthplace2_bio.htm.
Accessed 5 Apr. 2017.
The source is filled with useful information about Helen Keller and her early life.

The

source gives a full biography of Helen Keller. The source is secondary because it
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written at a different time period than Helen. The source shows how Helen lived

her life

after her miracle occurred. It states how Annie lived with Helen until Annie died. This

source is very helpful in finding information about Helens early life.

Helen Keller. Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 30 Nov. 2016,

www.biography.com/people/helen-keller-9361967. Accessed 7 Apr.
2017.
This source has tons of information on Helen Keller's early life. It mainly

goes over Helen's life from the age of twelve till her death. The website

is secondary because it is an overview of her life written after Helen's

death. The source is very good for researching information about Helen

Keller's early teens to the end of her life. Some useful information

discovered is that Helen went to Perkins Institute for the Blind with

Annie Sullivan.

Helen Keller: Our Champion. Helen Keller - American Foundation for the Blind, American
Foundation of the Blind, www.afb.org/info/about-us/helen-keller/12. Accessed 5 Apr.
2017.
The source focused on Helen Keller's life as an adult. It was mainly small facts about

Helen's life as a political activist. This website was secondary. This was true because the

information was written after Helen Keller's life. The only information that was about

Helen's early life was the date she was born on. The source would be helpful in finding

information about Helen as a political activist, but not at all helpful in finding information

about Helen's early life. The source described how Helen went to many public speeches.

Keller, Helen. The World I Live In. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908.
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The book The World I Live In by Helen Keller, tells the story of Helen Kellers life as a

young adult till she was middle aged from her point of view. The book is extremely well

written in a poetic yet real story of Helens life. It gives not only the information about

everything she did, but also what it was like for her. The source is primary because Helen

wrote it herself. The book gave information about the little things like how the simple

experience of petting a dog felt to her. This was a great source of information.
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The sources I used for my annotated bibliography would be great in a research report

about Helen Kellers early life from the age of six to sixteen years old. There would be

information about Helens early life from Helens perspective. There are details of her life from

secondary sources about her life. The sources use modern day information to compare to how life

was for Helen during her lifetime. This gives an explanation of where Helen Keller got her

opinions from. If a research report about Helen Kellers life from the age of six to sixteen was

done using my sources, the writer would have a lot of information to choose from. Four of my

sources would be useful in research except for the source titled Helen Keller Our Champion.

This website gives information about Helens adult life. This source would be useful for writing

about Helen Kellers adult life as a social activist, but not useful in finding information about

Helen Kellers early life because the only information about Helen Kellers early life that is given

is her date of birth. The website gives interesting facts about Helen but mostly is appraising her

as their champion. The best way to understand the information Helen gives in her book The

World I Live In is by reading the secondary sources because they give an overview of Helens

past. In my opinion I think that if writing a research paper for a project, an annotated

bibliography would be very useful in helping the writer discern the good and useful sources from

the biased and unhelpful ones. Doing this annotated bibliography project helped me realize

something. That having good sources is an extremely important part of writing a research paper.
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This is true because without good sources the paper would have biased and untrue information.

Without this project I would never have been able to fully appreciate how important citing my

sources is. Not only so that I can give the sources credit, but also so that I can use the sources

again. This is the reason for why I think the annotated bibliography helped me understand

researching.