Title - I Survived The American Revolution, 1776 Author: Tarshis, Lauren Publisher: Scholastic Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1679 4.5 850 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 34 Total # of Words 3169 # of Different Words 1001 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2153 67.9% # of Hi freq words 426 42.6% % of Long Sentences 4 Low Freq occurs 192 6.1% # of Low freq words 146 14.6% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Dates Chapters Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Integral Setting - Historical Topics *History Fears Danger War Courage American History Patriotism Low Frequency Words aargh ached adventures bayonet beatings beggar's biscuits breathed breathless brimming brutal bulging calmer carriage castaway chasing churning cigar cigars colonies colonists crawling curled cursed cursing delicious discussions disguised distracted dobbins ferocious fiery flicking frantically fury general gentleman giggling glaring glassy griping gripping grunting gun's hammock hanged helpless hideous imagined imitation invisible islands jowly kaboom knowing loneliness luckily lunged marston mattered memories mention mouthed murdered musket napping nathaniel nephew nightmare nightmares norwalk nowhere numb o'shea orphanage orphans ounce panic patience patiently patriots peering pictured platter practically pried prison property ragged relative reminder revolutionary reward riled ruffling rustling sailors scalded seagulls shanties shared sickened slash sliding smacked softened soldier spindly sprang squall squawking staggered storch storch's streaked surprisingly swallowed swept swirled swirling swollen sword sworn terrified terrifying theo theo's thieves throbbed thwack toothed tortured traitors tweasure uriah valuable voyage voyages warned whipped whipping whirled who'd whooshing wormy wretched