Turkeys

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• Turkeys
• By Bailey White

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1 Write a summary of the story. Include three
main events from the story in your
summary. _________________________________________
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The summarizing statements may include, but are
not limited to The ornithologists and the
little girl helped raise the turkeys. In this
story, a little girl helps save some wild
turkeys. Text-based main events may include, but
are not limited to A. Something about my mother
attracts ornithologists / It all started years
ago when a couple of them discovered she had
a rare species of woodpecker coming to her bird
feeder. B. The pure-strain wild turkey stock
had begun to interbreed with farmers domestic
stock / The species was being degraded / It was
extinction by dilution. C. The ornithologists
discover a rare wild turkey nest in the
narrators woods. D. The ornithologists were
protecting the nest from predators / (Their
protective measures) cause the mother turkey
to abandon her nest E. The narrator contracts the
measles / Her temperature is 102 / She is sick F.
The ornithologists put the eggs next to the
narrator. G. The eggs hatch. / There were sixteen
fuzzy baby turkeys in bed with her. / The
eggshells crackled, and the turkey babies
fluttered and cheeped and snuggled against
me. H. The baby turkeys and narrator gained
strength together / The turkeys peeped and
cheeped around my ankles, scrambling to keep up
with me and tripping over their own
spraddle-toed feet / The turkeys tumbled after me
down the steps and scratched around in the
yard. (followed her) I. The day came when they
were ready to fly for the first time / I ran down
the hill and the turkeys ran too. Then, one
by one, they took off. J. One hundred percent
pure wild turkey / The woods where I live are
full of pure wild turkeys
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1 Write a summary of the story. Include three
main events from the story in your
summary.
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• This response summarizes the story by including a
  summarizing statement and at least two text-based
  main events.
• Summarizing statement
• This story is mainly about a you girl who helped
  raise baby turkeys.
• Main Events
• This young girl had a fever of 102 which caused
  from her measles.
• Her mother has always attracted ornithologists
• D. wild turkey eggs abandoned from their
  mother
• The next thing she knew she woke up and had baby
  turkeys lying in her bed
• I. Soon she was able to watch them fly away.

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1 Write a summary of the story. Include three
main events from the story in your
summary.
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This response summarizes the story by including
at least three text-based main events. C. When
some ornithologists found a wild turkey nest E.
the little girl had a fever of 102. G to
hatch. I. they were taught to fly. J. Now,
in the wood next to the girls house are full of
wild turkeys
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1 Write a summary of the story. Include three
main events from the story in your
summary.
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This response partially summarizes the story by
including two text-based main events. E.
A little girl came down with measles. E.
the ornithologists called the mother and the
mother said her little girl had a fever of a
hundred and two F. the ornithologists
went to the girls house and put the eggs on her
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1 Write a summary of the story. Include three
main events from the story in your
summary.
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This response partially summarizes the story by
including two text-based main events. E.
A little girl got measles G. made the
eggs hatch
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1 Write a summary of the story. Include three
main events from the story in your
summary.
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This response partially summarizes the story by
including a summarizing statement. Three main
ideas where how to acctualy save the wild turkey
babys when they where abandond by there mother
trying to protect them from preditors
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1 Write a summary of the story. Include three
main events from the story in your
summary.
This response does not include a summarizing
statement or any main events from the story.
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• 2 What does the narrator most likely mean when
  she says, I was a sensible child in paragraph
  15 of the story?
• A. She welcomed the ornithologists visits to her
  home.
• B. She allowed the baby turkeys to follow her in
  the yard.
• C. She moved slowly because her head still ached
  from the fever.
• D. She reacted calmly to the presence of the baby
  turkeys next to her.

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3 What problem do the ornithologists experience
in the story? What are three events that
contribute to the resolution of the problem?
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Reasonable problems may include, but are not
limited to Mother turkey abandons nest. They
need to find a way to hatch the eggs and keep the
offspring alive. The wild turkey stock was being
diluted or becoming extinct. Text-based steps may
include, but are not limited to A. It all
started years ago when a couple of ornithologists
discovered a rare species of woodpecker
coming to her bird feeder. B. One ornithologist
devised a formula to compute the ratio of
domestic to pure-strain wild turkey in an
individual bird by comparing the angle of flight
at takeoff and the rate of acceleration. C.
They discovered a wild turkey nest. D. Does your
little girl still have measles?/ She was very
sick / temperature of 102 / Feel narrators
body to determine temperature E. Cant miss if we
tuck them up close and she lies still. / The
ornithologists, not having an incubator on
hand, came up with the next best thing. (the
girls body) F. The eggs hatch. / There were
sixteen fuzzy baby turkeys in bed with her. G.
The ornithologists were protecting her from
predators. / The turkey hen abandoned her
nest. H. The baby turkeys and narrator gained
strength together. / The turkeys peeped and
cheeped around my ankles, scrambling to keep up
with me and tripping over their own
spraddle-toed feet / The turkeys tumbled after me
down the steps and scratched around in the
yard. (followed her) I. Baby turkeys fly when
narrator runs downhill J. Ornithologists measure
angle of flight and speed. / One hundred percent
pure wild turkey! K. And the woods where I live
are full of pure wild turkeys. / I like to think
they are all descendants of those sixteen
birds I saved.
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3 What problem do the ornithologists experience
in the story? What are three events that
contribute to the resolution of the problem?
Include information from the story in your
answer.
Text-based events B. one of the
ornithologists devised a formula on the angle of
flight takeoff rate. B. formula to
compute the ratio of domestic to pure-strain
wild turkey. D. the little girl getting
the measles. H. herand them growing and
getting stronger together.
This response includes a problem ornithologists
experience in the story and three
text-based events that contribute to the
resolution.
Problem The problem that the ornithologists
experience would be the wild turkeys becoming
endangered, and breeding with domestic turkeys.
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3 What problem do the ornithologists experience
in the story? What are three events that
contribute to the resolution of the problem?
Include information from the story in your
answer.
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Problem The problem the ornithologists
experience in the story is that the mother turkey
left her eggs because of the ornithologists
close protection.
This response includes a problem ornithologists
experience in the story and three
text-based Events that contribute to the
resolution of the problem.
Text-based events D. the narrator had
the measles. that I caught the measles.
E. The ornithologists, not having an incubator
at hand, used their heads and came up with the
next best thing. They used the fever to incubate
the eggs F. which hatchedThe next
morning I was betterwere sixteen fuzzy baby
turkeys
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3 What problem do the ornithologists experience
in the story? What are three events that
contribute to the resolution of the problem?
Include information from the story in your
answer.
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This response includes a problem ornithologists
experience in the story and two
text-based events that contribute to the
resolution of the problem. Problem The
ornithologists experience that the wild turkey
was almost extinct. Text-based events D.
Bailey caught the measles G. the
ornithologists scared the turkey mother away by
acident
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3 What problem do the ornithologists experience
in the story? What are three events that
contribute to the resolution of the problem?
Include information from the story in your
answer.
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This response includes two problems
ornithologists experience in the story and one
text-based event that contributes to the
resolution of the problems. Problem The
ornithologists run into a problem when they have
16 eggs with no mother. First wild turkeys are
going extinct from delution. Text-based events
G. this causes ornithologists to watch a
pure-bread wild turkey and make sure
nothing happens to her 16 eggs. G. In
doing this the mother gets scared and abandons
her babys.
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3 What problem do the ornithologists experience
in the story? What are three events that
contribute to the resolution of the problem?
Include information from the story in your
answer.
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This response does not include a problem
ornithologists experience in the story but has
two Text-based events that would contribute to
the resolution of a problem. D. The girl
is sick F. then the babies hatch.
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3 What problem do the ornithologists experience
in the story? What are three events that
contribute to the resolution of the problem?
Include information from the story in your
answer.
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This response includes four problems
ornithologists experience in the story but does
not have Any text-based events that would
contribute to the resolution of the
problem. Problems Their first problem is that
the wild turkeys are becoming extinict. The
ornithologists have to figure out a way to save
the wild turkeys. the turkeys are becoming
sickly and are flying low and slow. they found
abandoned wild turkey eggs, and needed to find a
way to save them.
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3 What problem do the ornithologists experience
in the story? What are three events that
contribute to the resolution of the problem?
Include information from the story in your
answer.
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This response includes no problems ornithologists
experience in the story and no text-based events
that would contribute to the resolution of a
problem.
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• 4 Which word could the author have used in
  paragraph 2 instead of the word
• demise?
• A. End
• B. Growth
• C. Surplus
• D. Preservation

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• 5 Which opinion can be supported with
  information from the story?
• A. All change is for the better.
• B. No good can come from being sick.
• C. Ensuring the survival of native birds is
  important.
• D. Woodpeckers are more interesting than wild
  turkeys.

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6 One conclusion a reader can draw from the
story is that the ornithologists good
intentions lead to unexpected results. Provide
two details from the story to support this
conclusion. _____________________________________
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Text-based details may include, but are not
limited to A. A hundred two cant miss if we
tuck them up close and she lies still (The
ornithologists placed the turkey eggs next to
the feverish girl) / The ornithologists, not
having an incubator on hand, used their heads and
came up with the next best thing. / The eggs
hatched, and the baby turkeys snuggled against
the girl. B. The next morning I was better. / For
the first time in days I could think / The baby
turkeys and I gained our strength together C.
The turkey hen had been so disturbed by the
elaborate protective measures that had been
undertaken in her behalf that she abandoned her
nest. D. The turkeys peeped and cheeped around my
ankles, scrambling to keep up with me. / When I
went outside for the first time, the turkeys
tumbled after me down the steps. E. I ran down
the hill and the turkeys ran too / one by one,
they took off. / They flew high and fast F. They
jumped up and down and hugged each other / One
hundred percent wild turkey! G. It was extinction
by dilution. / The woods where I live are full of
pure wild turkeys / I like to think theyre
descendants of those sixteen birds I saved from
the vigilance of the ornithologists.
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6 One conclusion a reader can draw from the
story is that the ornithologists good
intentions lead to unexpected results. Provide
two details from the story to support this
conclusion.
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This response provides two text-based details to
support the conclusion that ornithologists good
intentions lead to unexpected results. A.
they placed the eggs with the narrator because
she had the measles or high fever, thus the eggs
later hatched. G. forty years passed and
the woods she lived in are full of pure wild
turkeys. G. She like to think they are all
descendants of those sixteen birds she saved from
those ornithologists.
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6 One conclusion a reader can draw from the
story is that the ornithologists good
intentions lead to unexpected results. Provide
two details from the story to support this
conclusion.
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This response provides two text-based details to
support the conclusion that ornithologists Good
intentions lead to unexpected results. A.
A hundred two cant miss if we tuck them up
close and she lies still. A. This means
that the turkeys were tucked by her because she
had a very high temperter. F. They jumped
up and down and hugged each other one hundred
percent pure wild turkey! F. They
werent sure if the turkey s mother or father
were pure wild turkey, but they later found they
were all pure wild.
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6 One conclusion a reader can draw from the
story is that the ornithologists good
intentions lead to unexpected results. Provide
two details from the story to support this
conclusion.
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This response provides one text-based detail to
support the conclusion that ornithologists good
Intentions lead to unexpected results. A.
A hundred and two-cant miss if we tuck them
up close and she lies still. the turkey eggs
hatched.
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6 One conclusion a reader can draw from the
story is that the ornithologists good
intentions lead to unexpected results. Provide
two details from the story to support this
conclusion.
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This response provides no text-based details to
support the conclusion that ornithologists
good intentions lead to unexpected results.
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• 7 Which sentence best states the main idea of
  the story?
• A. The mother helps raise the wild turkeys.
• B. The community helps protect the wild turkeys.
• C. The narrator unknowingly saves the wild
  turkeys.
• D. The ornithologist diligently studies the wild
  turkeys.

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• 8 Which sentence best describes why the
  ornithologists want to protect the
• wild turkeys?
• A. Wild turkeys are interbreeding with domestic
  animals.
• B. Wild turkey eggs have special incubation
  needs.
• C. Wild turkey habitats are declining.
• D. Wild turkeys abandon their nests.