A Letter from Your Nervous Thanksgiving Turkey

A Letter from Your Nervous Thanksgiving Turkey

A Letter from Your Nervous Thanksgiving Turkey
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 4 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.56

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		jerking, sneaking, wattle, eyesight, ridiculous, spectacular, future, splendid, fully, plotting, running, saying, spite, fate, cultural, needless
	content words:		Ben Franklin, Christopher Columbus, Turkey Trot, Butterball Company, United States, White House, Harry Truman, Abraham Lincoln, Got Beef, Your Nervous Thanksgiving Turkey

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A Letter from Your Nervous Thanksgiving Turkey
By Colleen Messina

¹     Hey all you Turkeys!

²     Gobble, gobble! I am your future Thanksgiving turkey, and I thought you might like to know a few bits of trivia about me before you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner.

³     Before you chomp down on your turkey drumstick (I shudder at the thought), you should know that Ben Franklin felt that I should be the national bird. He thought that the bald eagle was a coward. I'll admit, he did say that I was vain and silly, but he still thought I would be a better choice. I think that coins with turkeys on them would look splendid.

⁴     My name, turkey, comes from the word "tuka." Tuka is an Indian word for peacock, and Christopher Columbus felt that he had discovered India and that the turkey was a type of peacock. Others have noticed that when a turkey is scared, he makes a "turk, turk, turk" noise, so maybe that is why I am called a turkey.

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