Reading and Viewing Check

1. Lives Lost- Dotson uses stand up in the story to allow his audience to visualize what each of the girls did in their school gym. Dotson was in the school gym talking about the girls actions that us as viewers had to visualize. The techniques he used to get soundbites include the non-question question and the rule of threes.

2. Cave Rescue- My favorite line was the open when Dotson wrote, "Imagine slithering through a cave-a mile and a half long-climbing up a thousand foot maze dragging a broken leg," because I have broken my leg before and can't imagine doing that.

3. Ruby Bridges- Dotson uses setting by making sure he had all the correct camera shots. One that was a wide shot of the classroom, another of her feet, an third of her looking out the window and a fourth low angle shot of her face. He uses foreshadowing by mentioning the classroom as being a prison for Ruby and a picture that makes the room look like a prison is shown. Dotson uses conflict when talking about the huge crowd of people rioting in front of Ruby's school. He uses character growth by showing Ruby first as just a normal little six year old girl then how much she was forced to mature to everything bad that had affected her. Finally Dotson uses resolution by bring up how Ruby has been helping other kids out and the conflict has been resolved.

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