Research Wedge Challeng: Letter to Mr. Edison Activity 3.2

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Write a letter to Thomas Edison extolling the virtues of the light bulb.

Your letter should be about two paragraphs long. That means you might not have time to cover all the arguments and evidence you gathered earlier, so choose your material judisciously. Think about the story of the light bulb you wnat to tell. As you develop your letter, you may also want to think about information you learned about Mr. Edison's personality and life from his inventor card.

Here's an opening to get you started. You may copy and paste in your original letter:
Dear Mr. Edison,
Eureka! Student Inventor could not possibly succeed without you as a judge. What show about invention can be taken seriously if it doesn't include the inventor of the light bulb, one of the greatest inventions of all time?
The light bulb is a truly great invention because: