Title - Civil War on Sunday Author: Osborne, Mary Pope Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the Magic Tree House! Cannon fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 744 3.2 690 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 30 Total # of Words 1644 # of Different Words 521 Ave Word/.Sent 7 Hi Freq occurs 1033 62.8% # of Hi freq words 218 41.8% % of Long Sentences 2.2 Low Freq occurs 62 3.8% # of Low freq words 46 8.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Inferences: Some implications Concept: Fanciful Chapters Headings Features Character traits Integral Setting Simple Plot Topics *History War Heroes American History Helping Low Frequency Words absolutely challenge charged confederate cruel dreary enchantress exclamation freed gathering gazed glaring heating heaved hospitals kingdom knapsack librarian librarians magical magically mission mysterious nation northern northerners nursing patients peaceful pennsylvania prologue richmond sleeved soldier sought southern southerners sweat swirl terribly uncomfortably uniforms union volunteer weary whisper