Captain Keller's Business Letter

In this commas learning exercise, students add commas to sentences and a letter where needed. Students complete 3 sentences and 1 letter.

Using correct grammar is a capital idea! Elementary readers review the rules of capitalization, including proper nouns, abbreviations of organizations, and holidays, before correcting the errors in two sets of sentences.  

Part of a series of worksheets that offers young grammarians practice identifying and using the parts of speech, the focus here is on conjunctions. Coordinating, subordinating, and correlative are all featured in the exercises.

Students write a business letter similar to one Captain Keller might have written asking the Perkins Institution to recommend a teacher for his daughter in The Miracle Worker.

In this The Miracle Worker worksheet, students write a business letter that Captain Keller would have sent to Mr. Anagnos requesting help in finding a teacher for Helen.  Students must describe Helen, explain the duties, and offer a salary.

In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions about Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Students may check some of their answers online.