Title - Lincoln, A Photobiography Author: Freedman, Russell Publisher: Clarion Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A description of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln includes his presidential years and also reflects on the latest scholarly thoughts about our Civil War president. Entertain Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3534 7+ 1110 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 53 Total # of Words 4009 # of Different Words 1399 Ave Word/.Sent 16 Hi Freq occurs 2776 69.2% # of Hi freq words 489 35% % of Long Sentences 30.8 Low Freq occurs 468 11.7% # of Low freq words 394 28.2% Subjective Criteria Dialog: Simple Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Formal Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Topics *History War Freedom Presidents Politics *Citizenship & Laws Low Frequency Words abolitionist accompany accomplish according account achievements adventurers adventures advice alongside amateur ambitious angular animation annals announced appointed approach aptitude arabian auctioned audience average awkwardest bawdy bawled bearskins biography blurred bouts bungling burly cabinet campaign candidacy cargo cautious challenged changeable chested chums clary's cobblestone commonsense community complexion condensed confidence conflict countenance courtroom creels critical crude crusade culture customers debated debating decatur defiantly defy dennis denounced denton depression desirable diplomats disease disguise dismemberment doubt drawn dreaded dredged drowned eddication editor educated education elegy elocution eloquent emancipator enlisted epidemic escaped escaping eventually exposures expressions eyed farsighted features felled feller felling fellow ferry ferryman's fiery fitted flatboat flourishing folk folksy folly footraces forlorn formal fortunate freed freedom frequent friendless fully furrow future gangliest gangs gawky general gentry gestures git glance glorious governor graham grammar grey grove hacked handsome hanks harbor hazel height herndon hick hodgenville homesite homespun homesteading homesteads honest horseshoes hostile household humble humor humored humorous illinois imitations impatient impressed improve improvements income infinite insuring intellectuals intending invasion investments jeans joints kentucky kin kinfolk knob labor labored lacked languages lank larned leadership legend legendary legislature lent liking listless littles logic logical luminous magical makeshift maneuvering marrying mastermind masts meagre meanwhile measuring meddled melancholy memorized mending mentor military militia mission mississippi moral mosquitoes motherless mouthed muscular mysterious nancy's nation nation's navigate neglected neighbor neighbors newspaperman nickname nineteenth ning northern object oblige observed offutt's omens paramount partner passages patronized penniless personal photographed phrases physical pigeon pigpens pioneer pitching planks pleasure poet poetry poisonous political politician politics possessions practical practiced prairie prairies praised prayers precinct preeminently president produce proposed public pupils receptions recite reciting recollected referring reflective regard regarded relatives relied repose reputation required restless reticent retold reveal revolutionary rhyme rhythm riney rival robinson rollicking rough roving rowdy rutledge's sailors sandbars sangamon sauk schemes schoolhouse schooling schoolmaster schoolwork scottish scrawl scuffle secretive seldom sensitive sergeant shakespeare shakespeare's shakily shared sickness sided sixteenth slavery smattering smoky snuffled sociable society soldier solemn spared speech spellbound spindly springfield spruced stakes statesman steamboat steamboats stepbrother stint stirring stripped suits superstitious supporters surveying survive survived swap swapping swept sycamore tailor talkative tangled tavern teemed temporary thar therapy ticked toddler tormented towered towering traders tremendous tyrant underbrush underfoot uneducated union unpopular unruly upriver urged visions volunteers voyage wealthy weighing welfare whittled widow windowless windswept wisdom withdrawn witty wooded woodsman's wreathed wrestle wrestlers wrestling writer writers youngster