Title - Anakin's Fate Author: Cerasini, Marc Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A wonderful original adventure, showing Anakin's daily life on Anakin Skywalker believes that one day he will be more than just a slave. He has dreams. Maybe someday he will leave Tatooine and become a space pilot, or even a Jedi Knight! Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1473 4.3 820 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 23 Total # of Words 3224 # of Different Words 877 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 2065 64.1% # of Hi freq words 352 40.1% % of Long Sentences 0.5 Low Freq occurs 223 6.9% # of Low freq words 118 13.5% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Concept: Fanciful Features Integral Setting Simple Plot Difficult names Unusual use of vocabulary Topics Technology Environment Tools Racing Repair/Repairing Equipment *Technology & Progress Low Frequency Words activated afterburners amazement anakin's assembly astromech awa banthas bargaining bimmira bliel bliels blurred boarded circuits communication corning cowards cylinder deactivate deactivated droid droids dune dunes echoed electrical engines expertly familiar formation fuel gathering glare guiding hammerhead hammerhead's herd hydrospanners ignored instant instantly instincts insult jabba jawa jawas jerikans joints junkyard kitster language lubricants lumbered marketplace massive metta mochat model moisture motivator motivators nervously nonstop outsmart payment pilots pleasure podrace podracer podracers project protocol racer racers racetrack raiders recognize regga regga's replacement rimkar rimkar's ruby sandcrawler sandcrawler's sebulba sebulba's sensed shmi shone skidded skywalker snarled spacer spice stubborn studied surge surged survive tatooine thrusters tinkered toydarian tusken unfinished universe valuable vaporator vaporators ve vowing wandered warned watto's wonders wrecked