![]() ![]() There’s a ton of stage directions here in this play, for obvious reasons, but it’s still a lot. The parents really struggle at the beginning to figure out how to deal with Anne’s disabilities, and it’s pretty heartbreaking, even if they seem a little mean. There’s a significant portion of the play that takes places with Annie Sullivan in school outside of her private work with Helen that I had forgotten. She seems very excited and engaged with the story based on her annotations. This was a copy I found in a Little Free Library and I believe the copy was owned by a teen assigned to read this. ![]() It’s a classic that many of us read at some point or watched the movie version with Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft. Here’s one I found in a Little Free Library that I think should work. I really pressed some of them who have shown some weariness to look at plays as a source for their final reading. My AP students are rounding the bend on the school year and I assigned them one final out of class reading of their choosing, so I have been reading and rereading some of their choices. ![]()
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