Object: a lightbulb

Good morning, boys and girls. I want to tell you a true story. It is about a little boy named Thomas. Thomas was born many years ago, back in the 1840s. That's about 150 years ago. When Thomas was little, his teachers thought he wasn't very smart. They thought that Thomas would never learn anything. They didn't want him in their class. So Thomas' parents took him out of school, and he never went back after that. His mother kept him home and taught him there at home. Thomas seemed to get in trouble a lot. When he was twelve years old, he was in an bad accident. The accident injured Thomas' ears, and he lost a lot of his hearing. Thomas' parents must have worried that he would have…