1. Annie Sullivan Leticia Casas

3. She taught Helen Keller how to communicate by finger spelling into her hand.

4. She and Helen became famous for their many accomplishments.

6. Her mother died when Annie was 8 years old.

7. Annie had trachoma. She got the eye disease from her younger sister who died from a terrible fever.

9. Her brother died of tuberculosis as their mother had.

10. Asked Frank B. Sanborn, a man who came to inspect the poorhouse, for help and in 1880 she was admitted to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston.

11. She had many eye operations and at last she could see better than she ever had. Growing Up

13. Helen's father asks Annie to come to Tuscumbia, Alabama to help his daughter.

14. In 1880 Sullivan arrives at Helen's home and starts teaching her to communicate right away.

16. In 1900 Helen enters Radcliffe College in Massachusetts with Annie's help.

17. When Helen was almost 23 years old John Macy, who was an editor, helped publish Helen Keller's The Story of My Life . Working with Keller

19. Deliverance , a movie based on Helen's life with Annie by her side, is produced in Hollywood.

20. Annie and Helen start doing work for the American Foundation for the Blind in 1924 after the movie is produced.

22. Annie Sullivan dies on October 20, 1936.

23. A play about Annie's early work with Helen in produced. ( The Miracle Worker. )

24. Work Cited Selden, Bernice. The Story of Annie Sullivan: Helen Keller's Teacher. Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 1997. Print.