Title - Animal Farm Author: Orwell, George Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Persuade Classics RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3916 7+ 1130 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 56 Total # of Words 3662 # of Different Words 1060 Ave Word/.Sent 17 Hi Freq occurs 2650 72.4% # of Hi freq words 390 36.8% % of Long Sentences 44 Low Freq occurs 291 7.9% # of Low freq words 230 21.7% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Many Long Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Difficult Chapters Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Clear cause/effect Complex plot Personification Targets adult reader Foreign words Topics Cause/Effect *Community Behaviors Leadership *Citizenship & Laws Low Frequency Words abolished absorbed abundance accepted achieved acquired admitting alcohol animalism approaching astray atom attendance attentively barley bearer benevolent boar boars calves cleverest climate clime communicate comrade comrades comradeship concealed contentedly contrary convinced counteract cruel cruelty cynical daintily decent depth dignity disciples disheartened dishonest dissentients elementary engage enmity enormously ensconced especial exhibited existence expounded falter feebly fertile flirting foreleg freedom's fruitful future generally generations happiness harness hatched hearken hedges hideous highly hindquarters hoarse hoping horror hunger hurriedly idle imagining immediately instance instant intelligence intelligent interests interrupted inventive knacker laborious labour lantern lawsuit leisure lest liberty lounge lowed lurched majestic major major's majority manor merely midsummer's milked mincing minimum miserable misery mollie motherly movements muriel mysterious napoleon naturally nature neglected nestled nevertheless nimble o'er occasionally openly orchard ordinary organising outlook overnight overthrow overwhelming paddock peacefully pellets perch perched perches persuade persuasive pigeons pincher plaited pleasure plough porkers preliminary previous principles produce producing promptly propose prosperity purer rabbiting rafters rations raven rebellion recognised referred regarded remainder reputation resemble resolution respected roofing sake scullery season seized seldom selves shrill situated slaughtered slavery somewhat soul speech spite sprang squealer stall steadiness stirring stout stupidest stupidity sturdy succession summed surely talker teachings tempered throughout tidings tills tobacco toothless towards tremendous trodden trotter turkeys tushes tyrannise tyranny tyrant underfed unfailing unfortunately unison unity universally uproar victorious vivacious wandering whined whinnied whisking wildest willingdon windsor wisdom worth wurzels yourselves