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Little by Little Scavenger Hunt
For numbers 1-4, click on the link to find the answer.
1. How is the “visual field” different for someone who is blind? (HINT - scan the article for the words "visual field")
2. How did Helen Keller learn to speak? (HINT – you can watch the video by clicking on Windows Media Player)
3. Write your first name in Braille.
4. Helen Keller lost her hearing when she was 19 months old. How did she lose it?
Read about Jean Little’s life below?
5. Why do you think she wrote the book, Little by Little?
Jean Little: Her Life
Jean Little was born in Taiwan in 1932. Her parents were both doctors. Jean grew up in Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto. She was born with a severe eye problem and is severely visually impaired. A special "talking" computer assists her with her writing. She has a seeing-eye dog named Pippa, with whom she travels. The author focuses on her experiences from the time she was a child through young adulthood in her autobiography, Little by Little, and continues her story in Stars Come Out Within. The books, which will appeal to children 10 and older, are both humorous and poignant as Jean describes living with a disability and the ridicule she sometimes experienced as a result, as well as her love for the world of reading and books.
1. How is the “visual field” different for someone who is blind? (HINT - scan the article for the words "visual field")
2. How did Helen Keller learn to speak? (HINT – you can watch the video by clicking on Windows Media Player)
3. Write your first name in Braille.
4. Helen Keller lost her hearing when she was 19 months old. How did she lose it?
Read about Jean Little’s life below?
5. Why do you think she wrote the book, Little by Little?
Jean Little: Her Life
Jean Little was born in Taiwan in 1932. Her parents were both doctors. Jean grew up in Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto. She was born with a severe eye problem and is severely visually impaired. A special "talking" computer assists her with her writing. She has a seeing-eye dog named Pippa, with whom she travels. The author focuses on her experiences from the time she was a child through young adulthood in her autobiography, Little by Little, and continues her story in Stars Come Out Within. The books, which will appeal to children 10 and older, are both humorous and poignant as Jean describes living with a disability and the ridicule she sometimes experienced as a result, as well as her love for the world of reading and books.
6. Read the book review of another book written by Jean Little. How is the book, From Anna, different from Little by Little and how is it the same? Draw a Venn Diagram.
Moving is never easy, especially when you're a little 9-year-old girl moving from the tumult of living in Nazi Germany to Canada in the 1930s. And if you're clumsy and your older brothers and sisters all call you "Awkward Anna" as well, it's even worse. In award-winning writer Jean Little's poignant novel, From Anna, readers are sure to be touched by Anna Soldens's struggl...more. Moving is never easy, especially when you're a little 9-year-old girl moving from the tumult of living in Nazi Germany to Canada in the 1930s. And if you're clumsy and your older brothers and sisters all call you "Awkward Anna" as well, it's even worse. In award-winning writer Jean Little's poignant novel, From Anna, readers are sure to be touched by Anna Soldens's struggles with her new home in Canada, the unfamiliar language of English, and the realization that, in fact, there is a reason for her being such an awkward child. When it's discovered that Anna needs glasses and that her clumsiness is actually the result of being visually impaired, Anna's life changes completely. Suddenly her brothers and sisters see Anna in a new light and try to make amends for being unkind. From Anna is one of Jean Little's most popular novels, and it's little wonder.
7. Write your own review of Little by Little.