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visit website   https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ 6. MY TEACHER   Helen Keller About the author: Helen Adams Keller, the American author, political   activist and a lecturer was born on June 27 1880, in  Tuscumbia, Alabama to Captain Arthur H. Keller and  Kate Adams Keller. In 1882,when she was 19 months  old, she was stricken by an illness that left her blind  and deaf.  In 1886, according to the advice of an ENT specialist  her parents contacted Alexander Graham Bell, who  was working with deaf children at that time. Bell  advised them to contact Perkins Institute for the  Blind. The director of the institute, asked former  student Anne Sullivan, to become Helen Keller's  instructor. That was the beginning of a 49-year-long  relationship with her teacher. Anne Sullivan, came  rd to her house on March 3 , 1887 and helped her  make tremendous progress with her ability to  communicate .In May, 1888, Helen Keller attended the Perkins Institute for the Blind.In 1894, Anne Sullivan and

  visit website  https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ 3. HEART OF THE TREE  Henry Cuyler Bunner " WHAT does he plant who plants a tree? He plants a friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high. He plants a home to heaven anigh For song and mother-croon of bird In hushed and happy twilight heard -- The treble of heaven's harmony -- These things he plants who plants a tree. What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants cool shade and tender rain, And seed and bud of days to be, And years that fade and flush again; He plants the glory of the plain; He plants the forest's heritage; The harvest of a coming age; They joy that unborn eyes shall see -- These things he plants who plants a tree. What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants, in sap and leaf and wood, In love of home and loyalty And far-cast thought of civic good -- His blessing on the neighborhood Who in the hollow of His hand Holds all the growth of all our land --

visit website   https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com 2. ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL  Ruskin Bond About the author Ruskin Bond –He is an Indian author of British descent. This shy literary genius could be easily credited for making almost three generations of Indian students into avid readers. His stories are simple and lucid, a quality that made him a literary star. The stories speak directly to the reader about the charms of the Dehradun hills and the idiosyncrasies of the North Indian terrain. His first novel, Room on the Roof was written at the age of 17 years and had won hi m John Llewellyn Rhys prize that is awarded to British commonwealth writers who are under the age of 30. It was a semi-autobiographical story of an orphaned Anglo Indian boy. Ruskin Bond has received the Sahitya Academy Award for English Writing in India and also has been conferred with Padmashree Award in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Short Answer Questions : 1. Whom did the grandfather get the Python from? Gr

  visit website  https://sugarybloom.blogspot.com/ The Hoop Feodor Sologub   About the author Feodor Sologub  is a prolific Russian author, dramatist, essayist and  poet of the Symbologist movement, his undoubted masterpiece being The Petty Demon (1907). Feodor Kuzmich Teternikov was born on 17 Feb , 1863, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was later to adopt the  pseudonym Sologub. In 1882, after training at the St. Petersburg Teachers' Training Institute, Sologub was appointed teacher of Narvskoe municipal school and began his career, mainly teaching maths, with the Russian Ministry of Public Education. A significant date for Sologub was the 28th of January, 1884, when his poem and Hedgehog was published in the magazine literary success. Much of his ensuing poetry dealt laconically with morbid themes and death in a beautifully simplistic way, unencumbered by heavy metaphor. Great Expectations-Charles Dickens On travel by train-J.B. Priestley If-Rudyard Kipling  Poem Short Answer Quest