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 * 1. Complete the chart below comparing the narratives of the three stories.**
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** || **Elephants Under Pressure ...** ||
 * **What is the opening situation?**
 * (How does the story start?)** || **Gus has been assigned a project.** || **The Elephants are being under pressure of their options and resources.** || **The opening situation us that elephants are good use of resources.** ||
 * **What is the problem of challenge that is posed?** || **Gus needs to bring pictures to show what he is thankful for.** || **The elephants have no shelter or place to find food.** || **Elephants are very dangerous and they have experienced deadly things in their lives.** ||
 * **How is the challenge resolved, if it is?** || **Gus brings in a picture of his new best friend.** || **People start to see how bad the elephants are living and make a program to help.** || **People help the elephants while putting them in sanctuary's or in the wild where needed.** ||
 * **How is the closing situation different to the opening situation?**
 * (What has changed?)** || **At first Gus didn't know what he was thankful for and at the end he found out that it was his friends.** || **The opening situation is bad, and you start to see how, and the closing situation they start to get better and live better.** || **At first they treated elephants for things that were abusive to them but not they treat them with respect and use them properly.** ||
 * **Do you see the story from one character's point of view? How is this achieved?** || **Yes, his friend helped him out to protect him.** || **No, because it's many of them, not just one.** || **Yes, the people use the elephants for different things but in the end elephants feel free and happy.** ||

2. Think about the author of the book **Elephants Under Pressure**:
 * 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 is about elephants, what was being compared was how elephants are treated and disrespected from the start to the finish of the story.**
 * 2) **The author didn't use any symbols in the stories.**

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?