Writing

Pre-writing Draw a timeline of your life and mark the best times (the highs) and the worst times (the lows). For example: Highs: I won a prize at a piano competition in 2002.

Lows: I fell off my bike and broke my arm last year. time line in 2002 last year

Writing Sample:

Helen Keller is considered to be one of the greatest women in the world in the 20th century. She was born in America in June When she was nineteen months old, she was still a happy and healthy girl. But then she had a high fever which made her blind

and deaf. From then on she lived in darkness and silence. At first she was so sad that she even wanted to die. She became bad-tempered. Her parents were greatly worried about her and tried to find various means to make her happy, but they didn’t work.

Luckily for her, when she was seven, they found a teacher, Miss Sullivan, who changed her life. She had a lot of difficulties in teaching Helen Keller and finally she opened the outside world to her and gave her a new start. With Helen’s strong will and

intelligence, combined with her teacher’s skill and patience, she never gave in and overcame all the difficulties. Helen Keller became an able student and graduated from a college. She finally received a university degree in English literature.

Later on she devoted all herself to helping the blind and deaf children. She wrote many books and The Story of My Life is a remarkable one. Her story has inspired a large number of disabled people to struggle in life as well as us our normal people.

Writing on P129 The Correct Order Young people living with HIV/AIDS may 1 have to keep their illness a secret at school. 2 have to watch their parents die.

Young people living with HIV/AIDS may 4 have to take care of themselves without help. 6 have to take medicine. 5 have little money, 3 have to care for sick relatives at home.

In my opinion, for those young people living with AIDS, the most important problem is that they may have to keep their illness a secret at school. At present, there is no efficiently medical way to treat AIDS. Besides, AIDS is considered to be an

immoral disease, and if you have AIDS, others will look down upon you. Some people think that they will be infected, therefore, they have to keep their illness a secret at school, and this will increase the students’ psychological pressure. As a matter

of fact, AIDS is a kind of disease that not spreads through daily communi- cation, if society, governments and other organizations propagate more information about AIDS, people will pay more attention to their social behaviors, and also they will look

on AIDS as a normal disease, so that the patients can live normally, and the students living with AIDS can also enjoy their life.

Homework Finish writing on Page 128.