You are a guest of the Thomas and Sarah Lincoln Family.
They welcome you to share a little school work with their son, Abraham.   Thomas will allow Abe a little free time to do his school work.  Sarah is very happy you interested in doing this book learn'n with her step-son.

        The school work you will do will be Read'n, Writ'n and Cipher'n, and some other things Abe liked to do.  Think back to when Abe was about 10 years of age, and that . . .         "Abe's (Abraham Lincoln's sister taught him and encouraged him to write. When he got tired of doing arithmetic, he would write poems.
During the 19th century in pioneer America, children were sometimes sent to school by one of the local "wizzards" who could read, write and cipher.  They were the "teachers" of young people in their log cabin school houses, getting paid with eggs, produce, meat, and whatever the pioneer parents could come up with. 
        The profession of teacher was one of being the only educated person in a whole area, and getting students on a seasonal basis, usually during the winter, when crops and outside work would stop. 
        Abe Lincoln attended school for a sum of one year.  One source described that year as equal to a 6th grade education.
       
    Many years later he wrote about how hard it was to find a school teacher. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard.