Title - American History For Kids Author: Unknown Publisher: Unknown Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Get ready to travel back in time to when America was first discovered. You’ll learn all about how the United States of America was formed and the most significant events in its history. You’ll be amazed to discover all the incredible things that have shaped the United States into the culture it is today. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2386 5.6 960 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 62 Total # of Words 3024 # of Different Words 947 Ave Word/.Sent 14 Hi Freq occurs 1795 59.4% # of Hi freq words 286 30.2% % of Long Sentences 20.2 Low Freq occurs 406 13.4% # of Low freq words 265 28% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Formal Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Captions Maps/Key Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Dates Table of Contents Bold/Italicized Words Chapters Headings Features Integral Setting - Historical Topics *History Government Independence Freedom American History US Constitution Conflicts Patriotism Low Frequency Words achievements agencies alongside amendments annoyed apache approved articles attorney authority bunker cabinet catholic ce centralized ceremonies characteristic citizens citizenship college colonial colonies colonist colonists colonize colonized colony complaints compromise concord confederation confidence conflicts confronted congress constantly constitution constitutional continental convention croatoan culture currently dealt debts declaration delegates determined disagreed document domestic dutch effect effectively emerge enforcing ensure escalated escaping european evaluating executive extreme factions federal federalists formation founders founding freedom general governed government government's guardian guides gunslingers harbor harsher healers hispaniola honor hoping hosted hostility ignored impact implement improving increasing incredible independence independent indies indigenous individual inevitable intolerable introduce introduced introduction intuits issues jamestown january jersey judicial language legislative lexington liberty limitations livingston location maintain major maryland massachusetts massacre mayflower medicine merchants military minute's minutemen morale nation national natives nature newfoundland nomadic oaths official officially operate ordain organized original originally ourselves outlaws overboard overland paris parliament passionate paterson peaceful peacefully pennsylvania permanent persecution personality philadelphia pilgrims plains plymouth political population portugal possessions posterity practices precious president previously priests promote propose protestant protesters protests provided providing pueblos purify puritans quakers ratification ratified rd reasons recent referred related religious religiously reopen repealed represent representation representatives reservations respect respected responded responsible revere revolution rightfully roanoke roman salmon saratoga science secretary secure senate senators separate separatist separatists series seriously settlement shaman shared shown significant society sources southern specific spiritual subjected suggestion suggestions supplies supporters supremacy supreme surrendered survive sworn taxation taxing technology throughout townshend tp's traits treasury treatment treaty trenton tribal unanimously unbearable unfortunately unintelligible union unique unnecessary valued vibrant vice victories viking wampanoag warn warned watchful wealth welfare