To Be or Not To Be the Top Turkey
Download TurkeyAlive.htm Since Thanksgiving is coming up, I had my students pretend they were turkeys, the famed centerpiece of a Thanksgiving meal! They had to write and persuade people not to eat them. We first watched a funny clip of a turkey singing "I Will Survive" to help us think about some of the humorous parts of being a turkey. (You can veiw the clip by clicking on the TurkeyAlive link.) Here are some of the things my third-grade turkeys had to say:
Please Don't Eat Me!
If you're going to celebrate Turkey Day, celebrate me instead of killing me and eating me. If you do eat me, you will have a bad day. I will train myself to do some magic tricks. When I am trained, I will make you into a turkey and mee into a human. Then, I could chop your neck!
Alejandra
Live Or Get Killed
You don't want to eat me. Would you want to have my head for Thanksgiving Day? Besides, I'm all skin and bones! If you don't eat me, I will do anything for you, ANYTHING! Remember, don't get your knives or your pitchforks. Don't eat me, please!
Dylan
I Will Live Forever
Please don't eat me. I will work and make you everything. Whatever you tell me to do, I will do. Don't eat me please. Eat some of my other Turkey friends instead of me.
Jesus
Please Don't Eat Me!
Please don't eat me because I'm a turkey and sometimes they're skinny. I'm a little turkey. Please don't cut my neck. I'll do eanything for you. I'll even be your pet. Have you decided? Just look at me. Don't you see my face? I'm too skinny, and my face is all feathery. I have a little bit of hair. I'm too young. Eat my older, plumper friends instead.
Sol
Should we eat these turkeys? Did they persuade you enough to spare their life?
It sounds like you had fun.I would like to do that.I like the idea.So I would like to see all the beautiful turkeys.
Posted by: alecia | November 17, 2005 at 10:50 AM
In third grade I had to do the same thing.It was fun.
Posted by: brandon | December 05, 2005 at 10:50 AM
I loved all of them.And yes they persuaded me I just loved it.
Posted by: kareem | December 06, 2005 at 02:23 PM
Hi,
I love your Turkey talk, and am trying to imagine a turkey doing magic tricks!
you might like Talking Turkeys, a great poem by Benjamin Zephaniah.
http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/rhymin/turkey.html
Posted by: John | December 10, 2005 at 12:29 AM
i love turkey sonext year a will make a ham!
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