Helen Keller and her teacher went on vacation to Brewster, Cape Cod to spend time with Mrs. Hopkins. When Helen first approached the sea, she excitedly went into the water but got frightened after getting struck on a rock and almost drowning. After recovering, she enjoyed feeling the waves against rocks. Later, Miss Sullivan showed Helen a horseshoe crab that fascinated her so much she carried it home, but it disappeared the next day when she realized her mistake in removing it from the habitat.

1. The Story of
My Life.
By:
Helen Keller

3. Contents:
•Vacation @Brewster with Mrs. Hopkins.
•Helen’s first approach to the sea.
•The Horseshoe Crab.

4. Vacation at Brewster.
• When Perkins Institution closed for summer, Helen
and her teacher went to Brewster, on Cape Cod for
spending the vacation with Mrs. Hopkins.
• Helen had read about the sea in her book
“Our World” and was excited to visit it.

6. Helen’s first approach to the sea.
• When Helen came at the seashore, she hurriedly plunged into the water.
• She was enjoying the water, when suddenly her foot got struck on a rock.
• Her joyful excitement changed into fear as she started drowning.
• Finally, she got threw back to the shore, and was supported by
the embrace of her teacher.
• After she got recovered from the panic, she asked her teacher- “Who
put the salt in the water?”

7. • Helen never lost the fascination for the sea.
• She noticed the movement of waves and their affect on pebbles and the beach.
• And feeling the dashing of waves against the rocks and sending up a shower of
spray on her.
• After Helen recovered from the incident, she was enjoying sitting on a big rock.
• She felt it was great fun to feel wave dashing against the rock.

9. The Horseshoe Crab.
• One day, Miss Sullivan drew Helen’s attention to a sea organism–Horseshoe crab.
• Helen was so fascinated that she carried the heavy crab all the way home.
• At home, she carefully placed it on a trough of water.
• But to her surprise, it disappeared the next morning.
• Helen slowly but surely realized her mistake, of separating the crab
from it’s habitat.
• She felt happy thinking that it had possibly safely travelled to its home.
• Helen thought of making the crab her pet.

11. Question-Answer Session:
2)What happened to Helen as she got into the sea?!
1)Who all went with the narrator to Cape Cod?!
3)What were Helen’s feeling towards the horseshoe crab?!
4)Helen was fascinated by two things in this chapter.
What were they?!

12. Presented By:
Noufiya Nissam.
10-B.