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1. Complete the chart below comparing the narratives of the three stories. (How does the story start?) || Gus and his friend Bean get an assignment which is to take a photo of what they are thankful for. || The narrator talks about how there are many animal sanctuaries where the elephants come in pairs. || There are many elephants in the world that are attacking other elephants. || and Bean's plans to find what they are thankful for. || A dog who is hurt is in a sanctuaryoffice, where the dog's friend, an elephant, waits. || People are hurting the elephant's society by either killing an elephant for its tusks or taking an elephant into captivity. || so Mr. T, Gus, and Bean become friends. That is what Gus ended up doing for their project. || The dog survives. || Some people take care of young elephants who there mothers have been killed by poachers. Also, people can put elephants in zoos to save them from being captured. || (What has changed?) || Gus and Bean got a new friend, Mr. T. || Nothing has changed. || Nothing has changed. ||
 * || //Happy Thanksgiving Gus// ... || //Assignment America// ... || //Elephants Under Pressure// ... ||
 * What is the opening situation?
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || Billy, Farmer Franklin's grandson, wants to ruin Gus
 * How is the challenge resolved, if it is? || A big turkey at the farm, named Mr. T, scares Billy
 * 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? || No. You don't. || No. You don't. || No. You don't. ||

2. Think about the author of the book //Elephants Under Pressure//:
 * Questions**
 * 1) What was the subject? What was being compared?
 * 2) What symbols did the author use?
 * 3) What words stand out? Why?
 * 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?
 * 6) Was the voice formal or informal?
 * 7) Was the voice correct for the content?
 * 8) What is the most important sentence or word in the book?


 * Answers**
 * 1) The subject of // Elephants Under Pressure // is to have people who are reading the book to understand the similarities between people and elephants when it comes to societies. It also talks about the killing and/or capturing of elephants to hurt the societies of both elephants and humans.
 * 2) The author used different pictures, such as these:
 * 3) On page 8, there is a line of different elephants.
 * 4) On page 11, there is a picture of a Bangkok, Thailand policeman enforcing the law of not bringing elephants into the city.
 * 5) Page 12 has a picture of an African elephant very close to a family's house.
 * 6) Page 13 has a picture of two men gathering different ivory elephant tusks.
 * 7) Page 14 has a picture of a Thai man on top of an elephant, with the elephant carrying two trees in its trunk.
 * 8) Page 15 has a picture of two elephants attacking each other.
 * 9) Page 16 has a picture of six elephants searching through a garbage dump for food to eat.
 * 10) Page 18 has a picture of a man with a red baseball cap on walking around a damaged wooden house.
 * 11) Page 20 has a map of the Eastern Hemisphere where elephants live, and the different types of elephant species' regions.
 * 12) Page 21 has a picture of two men in light green and beige uniforms guiding seven young elephants to somewhere.
 * 13) Page 22 has a picture of an elephant knocking down a green fence.
 * 14) Page 23 has a picture of an elephant reaching for a tree with its trunk.
 * 15) Page 25 has a picture of a truck passing a sign that warns cars that there might be an elephant crossing the road.
 * 16) Page 26 has a picture of a white helicopter above three elephants.
 * 17) Finally, on page 27, there is a picture of three elephants crossing a road where there is a car.
 * 18) These are the words that stand out: captivity, society, migrate, poacher, adaptation, and sanctuaries. They stand out because they are in a different color than everything else.
 * 19) Persuasive words do because they are very biased comments.
 * 20) Of the words listed in number three, society has six different definitions, migrate has six different definitions, poacher has three different definitions, adaptation has seven different definitions, and sanctuary has seven different definitions.

3. Think about the producer and writer of the video clip //Assignment America//:
 * 1) What was the subject? What was being compared?
 * 2) What symbols did they use?
 * 3) What words stand out? Why?
 * 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?
 * 6) Was the voice formal or informal?
 * 7) Was the voice correct for the content?
 * 8) What is the most important sentence or phrase in the video?
 * 9) How did reading //Elephants Under Pressure// give you a better understanding of the story in //Assignment America//?

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?
 * How can visual clues help to decode the meaning of the story?
 * How does the sound track (audio clues) add to your understanding of the story?