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1. Complete the ** chart below ** comparing the narratives of the three stories. (How does the story start?) || The story starts with Gus and Bean receiving an assignment at school where they have to take a picture of what they are most thankful for and bring it into class. They went to get vegetables and a pumpkin from the farm, so Bean brought his camera just in case he saw something he was thankful for. || The report starts with the lady talking about how elephants at the sanctuary were always in pairs. There were dogs there, too, but the elephants and dogs never really seemed to be a pair.However, there were two animals, a dog named Bella and an elephant named Tarra, who stood out from the rest. The two were best buds, and they just couldn't be separated from each other. || Elephants from all over the world are doing dangerous, disastrous things that are harming humans. Elephants and humans aren't really getting along. || (What has changed?) || Billy is covered in mud, they have vegetables and a pumpkin from the farm, and they have a picture of what they're most thankful for: the turkey, Mr. T, who made Billy fall in the mud. || The relationship between Bella and Tarra became stronger, but the conditions that Bella was living in got worse. She became better, however, when they saw each other, and they never left each other since this whole struggle happened. At the beginning, Tarra was new to the sanctuary and really hadn't made any friends yet. So, as the story went on, their relationship became stronger and they became closer friends. || People are trying to help the elephants now. ||
 * Copy the information below and paste it onto a new wiki page that you create called RUNcodename.) **
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** || **Elephants Under Pressure ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || Gus and Bean have to deal with Billy, who constantly messes up whatever they're doing. This includes scaring them with a scarecrow, which causes them to drop all the vegetables that they had spent a long time collecting. || Bella had problems with her spinal cords, so she couldn't wag her tail and it was hard to walk. Tarra couldn't leave her best friend, so she waited day in and day out for 3 weeks by the office where Bella was being cared for. || Poaching and destruction of their habitats due to cities is going on, both of which are serious threats to the survival of the elephants. The forests that the elephants are living in are being burned, ruining if not ending the lives of the elephants. ||
 * How is the challenge resolved, if it is? || Billy gets scared and jumps into a mud pile. || Every day, the doctors took Bella out onto the balcony to see Tarra. Before they did that for the first time, Bella couldn't wag her tail. The moment they took her out onto the balcony, she started wagging her tail. || Although the problem isn't completely resolved, people all over the world are striving towards helping the elephants to better quality lives. They are finding places for the animals to stay and live peaceful lives away from poaching and eating garbage. ||
 * How is the closing situation different to the opening situation?
 * Do you see the story from one character's point of view? How is this achieved? || It was in 3rd person, so the narrator was not a character in the story. The author is telling you the story of Gus and Bean. You are experiencing the day by day life of Gus. || I saw the story narrated as the feelings of Tarra and Bella and how they dealt with the problems they faced. It focuses on the way they look at their relationship and how they feel about it. || The story was describing the elephants' point of view and how the problems were affecting their lives. ||


 * 2. **T**hink about the author of the book Elephants Under Pressure:**
 * 1) ** What was the subject? What was being compared? ** The main subject is the elephants and the problems they face. They are comparing the humans and the elephants.
 * 2) ** What symbols did the author use? **The author used symbols like pictures to show how the parents care for the children.
 * 3) ** What words stand out? Why? ** Extinct because it describes what the elephants could possibly be soon enough
 * 4) ** How do some words get you to look at characters or events in a particular way? **
 * 5) ** Are there any words that have more than one meaning? ** bullet: either the dot or the ammo used in guns
 * 6) ** Was the voice formal or informal? ** Formal
 * 7) ** Was the voice correct for the content? ** Yes
 * 8) ** What is the most important sentence or word in the book? ** Elephants are constantly threatened by humans in many different ways.


 * 3. Think about the producer and writer of the video clip Assignment America: **
 * 1) ** What was the subject? What was being compared? ** The main subject is the relationship between Tarra and Bella. They are comparing the relationship possibilities between elephant and elephant, and elephant and dog.
 * 2) ** What symbols did they use? ** It was a video so they really couldn't use symbols.
 * 3) ** What words stand out? Why? ** Just the fact that the elephant ad the dog could get along so well stood out to me because they are such different animals coming from such different places.
 * 4) ** How do some words get you to look at characters or events in a particular way? ** The words paint me a better picture, giving me a better, more elaborate perspective on what exactly they're trying to get across.
 * 5) ** Are there any words that have more than one meaning? ** No
 * 6) ** Was the voice formal or informal? ** Formal
 * 7) ** Was the voice correct for the content? ** Yes because it wasn't exactly a playful topic.
 * 8) ** What is the most important sentence or phrase in the video? ** The one where they told the audience to overcome its differences because that was the whole lesson of the video.
 * 9) ** How did reading Elephants Under Pressure give you a better understanding of the story in Assignment America? ** Given what Assignment America was about, I didn't really need Elephants Under Pressure to understand the story.


 * 4. Answer the following questions using examples from this assignment. **
 * ** What are similar reading strategies that can be applied to different subject areas and to different media? ** Picking out key words, finding symbols in the video or book
 * ** How can visual clues help to decode the meaning of the story? ** It can paint you a better picture, showing you what is going on in more detail.
 * ** How does the sound track (audio clues) add to your understanding of the story? ** The sound track helps because it can help give the audience the feeling that the creator of the video intended on them feeling. The audio can make people feel sad, relieved, happy, or suspenseful.