RUN+strategies+HA

1. First complete the **chart below** comparing the narratives of the two stories. How does the story start? || Gus is in the classroom and the teacher assigns him and his classmates to bring in a picture of what they are most thankful for. || Elephants come to the sanctuary.
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?

Each elephant stays with another elephant, but one elephant stays with a dog instead. || fall down and makes other bad things to happen to Gus and Bean. || There isn't really any conflict
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || Gus can't decided on what he is thankful for || Finding out or understanding how a dog and elephant can become best friends. ||
 * How does this create conflict between characters? || Gus doesn't like is Billy. Billy keeps causing pumpkins to

him down. || They just stay best friends.
 * The conflict is when the dog is hurt and they cannot spend time together.** ||
 * How is this resolved? || The friends teamed up on Bill and so did the turkey and they knocked

What has changed? || Gus solved his problem and found a picture. || There is no real difference between the opening situation and the ending situation. || How is this achieved? || No you see it in a narrators point of view. || You see it in the people who own the sanctuary's view because they are being interviewed. ||
 * The people bring the dog down to the elephant every day until the dog is healed.** ||
 * How is the closing situation different to the opening situation?
 * Do you see the story from one character's point of view?

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**: In order to read this I had to use past knowledge by remembering everything I have learned in my Spanish classes. Also, I used the context clues by looking at the pictures to understand the main actions that were happening. Later on when I read the book in English I noticed that I got the main idea correct, but some of the details I didn't understand. By looking at the pictures I also, learned about new characters and new setting. Like moving from the school to the car to the farm house. The pictures also told me who some of the character's names were.
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text (or voice)

When watching this video I watched it two times. The first time to get an idea about what the story is about and then I read the questions about this story and watched the video again to find out the answers. **(How did they use the camera and voice-over to tell the story?)**
 * //Assignment America// Paragraph Here**: