Summary
Before he was president, Abraham Lincoln was a poor frontier boy who loved to read, walking miles to borrow books and teaching himself by firelight.
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Discussion
Before he was president, Abraham Lincoln was a poor frontier boy who loved to read, walking miles to borrow books and teaching himself by firelight.
- What was Abraham Lincoln's childhood like on the frontier?
- How did young Lincoln keep learning without a real school nearby?
- How can a love of reading change a person's future?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: frontier, log cabin, self-taught.
Try it: Lincoln walked far to borrow a book. Name a book you'd walk a long way to read, and why.