RUN+Strategies+PK

1. First complete the **chart below** comparing the narratives of the two stories. How does the story start? || Mrs. Morrison is trying to get the class their attention to tell them that they need to bring a picture for Thanksgiving on what they are thankful for. || They are saying how elephants come to an elephant sanctuary one by one, but stay there two by two. || he should bring of what he is thankful for. || The elephant is best friends with a dog so at any time the elephant could hurt the dog. || finds Billy, someone that Gus doesn't like. || The elephant is much bigger than the dog.
 * Copy the information below and paste it onto a new wiki page that you create called RUN //initials//.)**
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || Gus doesn't know what picture
 * How does this create conflict between characters? || Gus goes to a farm where he

the mud. That made Gus notice what he is most thankful for, the turkey. || Both the elephant and dog trust each other and know that one of them won't hurt the other.
 * When the dog is hurt, the elephant cannot be with the dog.** ||
 * How is this resolved? || The turkey knocked Billy into

What has changed? || The closing situation is different from the opening situation because by the end, Gus knows what he is thankful for rather than at the beginning of the story, Gus didn't know what he was thankful for. The change is that Gus realizes what he is thankful for. || The closing situations was different that the opening situation because in the opening situation it was about the elephant being different by being friends with a dog. In the closing situation it was about how they were always together. || How is this achieved? || No, because there is a narrator telling the story, not a character from the book. || No, because the video was about people's view on the situation of an elephant being friends with a dog. ||
 * They people bring the dog down to the elephant, so they can spend time together.** ||
 * 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**: I read the story //Feliz dia de Gracias, Gus!// in both English and Spanish. Because I speak Spanish, I understood what the story was saying in the Spanish version. Of coarse there were some words that I didn't know what it meant. However, by looking at the pictures and reading the other words, I got the idea of what they were trying to say. Some factors that I used to try to figure out what the story was saying was the setting and subject matter.
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text (or voice)


 * //Assignment America// Paragraph Here**: I saw the video on //Assignment America.// I watched the video twice to make sure that I didn't miss anything. I "read" the //Assignment America// by looking at the color, subject matter, setting, and voice. The way I used color was that I knew that the video wasn't going to be anything sad because in the sky there wasn't any dark clouds. I used the subject matter and the voice in a some what similar way. Throughout the whole video there is a voice telling about what's going on. With the voice, I figured out that the subject matter was about an elephant and a dog. By hearing what the voice had to say about the subject matter is another way I "read" this video. And lastly the setting. The setting was in an area where there were trees and grass. I also saw that there were elephants walking together. By seeing that there were elephants, I assumed that the video was going to be about elephants. However, the part where the elephant and the dog come out took me by surprised. It took me by surprised by because I would have never thought that two different animals could be best friends.