文档介绍：He Helped the Blind
Unit Two
Teaching plan
Situation: First Day in College
Pattern: Oral
Situation: Book Preservation
Pattern: Writing
Situation: Text and a short play
Pattern: Oral
Task1: Help each other
Task2: Fill an Order
Task3: Ways of the generation of creativity
Background Information
Louis Braille (1809-1852)
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The Village of Coupvray
The Braille Family Home
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Louis Braille (1809—1852)
Louis Braille was a blind Frenchman who invented the braille system of printing and writing for the blind. He was born near Paris. An accident at age 3 followed by a serious infection left him blind. He entered the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris (now the National Institution for Blind Youth) when he was 10. Braille was a good student, especially of science and music, and he became a anist. He remained at the Institute as a teacher. There he developed his system of reading. (From the 1998 World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia)
Braille
Braille is a code of small, raised dots on paper that can be read by touch. Louis Braille, a 15-year old blind French student, developed a raised dot reading system in 1824. The idea came to him from the dot code punched on cardboard that Captain Charles Barbier used to send messages to his soldiers at night.
In 1829, Braille published a dot system, basing it on a “cell “of six dots. From the 63 possible arrangements of the dots, Braille worked out an alphabet, punctuation marks, numerals, and, later, a system for writing music. His code was not officially accepted at once. But later it won universal acceptance for all written languages and for mathematics, science, puter notation.
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Blind people read braille by running their fingers along on the dots. They can write braille on a 6-key machine called a braillewriter, or with a pocket-size metal or plastic slate.
Braille books are pressed from metal plates. The characters are stamped on both sides of the paper by a method called