| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| This story is a fictionalized account about Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escaping to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1849. |
Entertain |
Historical Fiction |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 580 |
2.9 |
650 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
31 |
Total # of Words |
1055 |
# of Different Words |
421 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
6 |
Hi Freq occurs |
668 |
63.3% |
# of Hi freq words |
181 |
43% |
| % of Long Sentences |
0.6 |
Low Freq occurs |
30 |
2.8% |
# of Low freq words |
24 |
5.7% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Little support |
| Dialog: Two speakers |
| Dialog: Broken dialogue |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Many descriptive words |
| Sentences: Multiple phrases |
| Text structure: Story/Poem |
| Inferences: Some implications |
| Complexity: Several ideas - closely related |
| Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social |
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| Features |
| Character traits |
| Integral Setting - Historical |
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| Topics |
| *History |
| Freedom |
| African Americans |
| Slavery |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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ached |
baggage |
beckoned |
cough |
freed |
freedom |
knocking |
mistress |
nailed |
obey |
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pennsylvania |
philadelphia |
pried |
railway |
rattling |
slavery |
smoothly |
soar |
staircase |
steamboat |
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swirled |
tobacco |
vitriol |
warehouse |
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