Object: A flower and a blackboard or a piece of posterboard.

Good morning, boys and girls: I once read a beautiful story about a man named Charney who was thrown into a terrible dungeon by the emperor of his country and forgotten about. He was so sad that he wrote on the walls of his cell: "Nobody cares." (Write that on your blackboard.) But one day he noticed that a little green shoot of a flower was growing between the stones of his cell. It was so tiny that he hardly noticed it. Each day when th…