RUN+Strategies+VKA

1. First complete the ** chart below ** comparing the narratives of the two stories. How does the story start? || The teacher is trying to get attention from the students. The teachers says that they need a picture of something they are thankful for by Monday. || The news is showing a bunch of elephants. They then show the elephant and the dog. || until Billy shows up. || The dog gets a spinal injury and cannot move. || What has changed? || They needed a picture and they found a picture and a new friend. Mr. T is now friendly to the main characters. || The dog gets injured and recovers. The friendship was very strong and never broken. || How is this achieved? || I know how Gus felt because I've been bullied once, but then someone stood up for me and is still my best friend today. || I have been through the elephant's crisis before before because my friend had to go to the hospital and I sat alone at our lunch table alone until she showed up again. ||
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || The main characters go to a farm to pick vegetables
 * How does this create conflict between characters? || Billy keeps bothering the kids all day. || The elephant waits outside everyday for its friend. ||
 * How is this resolved? || A turkey named Mr. T pushes Billy into a puddle of mud. || The dog recovers in 3 weeks. ||
 * 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 **Happy Thanksgiving, Gus!** they used water colors for the coloring, and bold text for the text. The lighting was fairly used, meaning it was used correctly. The setting was mostly at a farm, but at the beginning and the end it was at a school. For the size, the main character, Gus, was about 3'4 or 3'5. The second main character was the same size as Gus, as well as the turkey. The bully was probably 4'5. Last for subject matter, it was about friendship, and finding something they are thankful for.
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text (or voice)

In **Assignment America,** the coloring was like real life colors since it was a video. The text was basically a woman's voice since she was speaking most of the time. The lighting was all right because the sun was behind either clouds or trees. The setting was at like a farm, but it was actually something like a reservoir center for elephants. The size of the elephants were maybe 7 or 9 feet tall, and the dog was 3'2. Last for the subject matter, it was about the friendship of a dog and an elephant.
 * //Assignment America// Paragraph Here ** :