Run+Strategies+SC

1. First complete the **chart below** comparing the narratives of the two stories. How does the story start? || Gus is in school. The story starts that Gus needs to get a picture of what he is most thankful of. || A elephant appears in the place. The interviewer talks about how the elephants come to a place when they get old. || elephants being friends. || that when the dog got sick the elephant was waiting for him to get better. || and they play all the time. || interviewer(narrator), dog, and elephant's point of view. This is achieved because the person tells what happens from the elephant's and dog's perspective. ||
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || Billy is being annoying to Gus and Bean. || That the elephant and dog are friends. ||
 * How does this create conflict between characters? || Billy is trying to mess up everything that Gus and Bean are doing. || The conflict is that the elephant and dog are friends instead of two
 * How is this resolved? || Billy fell into mud because Mr.T scared him. || They are very close so they don't care if it's normal or not they care so much
 * How is the closing situation different to the opening situation? What has changed? || The difference between the opening situation and the closing situation is that Gus didn't have a picture and now he does. || The closing situation is different because the dog and elephant are friends
 * Do you see the story from one character's point of view?How is this achieved? || Yes this is in one character's point of view it is in Gus' point of view. This is achieved by Gus telling the whole story. || This is from many people's point of view because it's from the

2. Then, by paying particular attention to the visual images in the stories and the ways in which these provide clues to the meaning of the stories, write a paragraph explaining how you "read" the stories to get the full meaning of each of the stories. You may find it useful to consider some of these factors: //**Feliz dia de Gracias, Gus!**// **Paragraph Here**: The story tells me meaning by using different types of shot to tell me how the characters feel. The poses also help me figure out how the characters are feeling about what is happening. The color also helps describe clues about the story to provide meaning of the story. The text describes what the characters are feeling and how they are feeling.
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text (or voice)


 * //Assignment America// Paragraph Here**: The story has a lot of meaning which you can tell from the subject matter. The type of shot also helps because I can see people expressions to know how they are feeling. The text also helps express how they are feeling which is kind of the meaning. The lighting helps show the meaning because it helps show how the people feel. **(Good observations to notice their expressions to give you information about the message.)**