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1. First complete the **chart below** comparing the narratives of the two stories.
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?

How does the story start? || The story start's when they are in the classroom talking about their assignment for class. || The story starts with 2 people a reporter and the owner talking about the elephants and dogs. (Comment: Excellent Observation!) || What has changed? || He was frustrated in the beginning but in the end he was happy and eager to go with his picture || The opening situation is just explaining what it is about Bella gets healed in the end explains what happened after. Nothing || How is this achieved? || Yes
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || Gus doesn't know what to put as what he was thankful for for his poem. || the dogs leg broke and couldn't walk so he can't see the elephant ||
 * How does this create conflict between characters? || There is no conflict between characters || The elephant is very sad that it can't see him ||
 * How is this resolved? || He makes friends with "Mr T" and takes a picture and is thankful for making friends with him || The dogs leg healed and they were playing together again ||
 * How is the closing situation different to the opening situation?
 * Do you see the story from one character's point of view?

By focusing on that character the whole time || no

It's an interview. ||

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**: All the pages had pictures in it which helped showed what the text means. All the pages had color and the framing was like when you open a book and it was all in Spanish. The subject was that the main character Gus and his friend Beto{Bean} needed a picture to give there teacher to see what their thankful for so they go to a farm to see if they can find anything while they farm.
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text (or voice)


 * //Assignment America// Paragraph Here**:The video was about how an Elephant and a dog became best friend's the elephant Tara and the dog Bella. The color was a grassy plain and no framing it was very blurry and there were many shots like up close or medium range. The subject matter was the elephant Tara and the dog Bella and Bella had a spinal accident and couldn't move a muscle and the elephant misses her a lot.