RUN+OJ

1. First complete the ** chart below ** comparing the narratives of the two stories. How does the story start? || The situation is that Gus doesn't know what he is most thankful for. Gus has to take a picture of what he is most thankful for. || The elephant and the dog are best friends. It explains how good of friends the elephant and dog are. || What has changed? || The closing situation is Billy being mean. Gus knows what he is thankful for. || The dog got injured. The dog and the elephant missed each other and now they are back together and the elephant can help protect the dog. || How is this achieved? || Yes the story is in 1st person. || No the story is in 3rd person. ||
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || Gus can't figure out what he is most thankful for. || The dog broke his spine. ||
 * How does this create conflict between characters? || It doesn't || Yes the conflict kept the characters apart. ||
 * How is this resolved? || It isn't. || It is resolved when the dog healed and the characters were reunited once again. ||
 * 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 this story if you read it in Spanish, you could still understand the subject of the story through the visual images. The pictures in this story explain the entire story. You don't have to read every story to understand it. The picture with Gus being bullied I could not understand in Spanish. But the picture helped me understand that he was being bullied. They used light colors in the story because it is a nice kids book.
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text (or voice)

The visual images help show how much the elephant and dog are friends. The shots only show how much they are friends. The subject matter is that the dog and elephant are friends. The setting is in a forest. The voice is a narration. The type of shot is video. The shots are mostly distant. They show the dog and elephant as very friendly. It shows that they are friendly by showing them hanging out together and not fighting.
 * //Assignment America// Paragraph Here ** :