Title - Mississippi Trial, 1955 Author: Unknown Publisher: Reading A-Z Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre At first Hiram is excited to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But soon after he arrives, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer, and Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place." Persuade Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2509 5.8 980 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 63 Total # of Words 5049 # of Different Words 1273 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 3855 76.4% # of Hi freq words 553 43.4% % of Long Sentences 21.8 Low Freq occurs 297 5.9% # of Low freq words 227 17.8% 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/Complex Social Chapters Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting - Cultural/Regional Complex Problem/Solution Complex plot First Person Dialect/Accents Topics Fathers Laws *Community African Americans Conflicts Crime *Citizenship & Laws *Family & Friends Prejudice Relationships Low Frequency Words addle almighty ambled angled appreciate approached arched aroma aromas azalea azaleas bachelors backbreaking bawd biscuits blaming borrow boyfriends brained brung butt'll cautiously charity chucked cigar college commies commonwealth concentration courthouse coveralls crouched crusader decision dilapidated doin' dunno elementary emmett eskimo exploring florence flushed followin forearms fragrance furrowed furrows german giggling gila gingersnap gonna gramma gramma's grampa gran'child greenwood gripped grocery gulped hades handlin happiness hardin harebrained hatred heavier hellish hind hitler hoeing hoping hurtful hustling ignored imagined insignias intended irwin ivory japanese jealous jeans kneading knocking knotted knowing knucklehead language laughter lemonade liberty lifebuoy likely lingered lobby lowered magnolia manage mansion meandered mellow methodically mildew mississippi monk mooaah mooing muffled muscle naomi napping navy naw nazis negroes neighborly nervously nook nothin occupy ole ought oughta oversized oxford pacific partially particular paused pillars pleasure politics preached preaching precious prejudice prowling pursuit racism ranting reel relied remington remington'd remingtons rereading rewarded rhythmically rickety riverbanks ronnie ronnie's routine rowheads rumpled rustled rydell rydells sagging salvation scent scowled section senseless separate sermon sermons shaded shelves sisbaby sizzle skittish slathering slung snatched southern spicy stifle stirred stirring straightening stripped stroll strolling studied stunned suitably surely surrounded swear sweat sweating sweetie swept tangled tarantulas that'll thermos they's throwin tolerate tomcat transom trudged undershirts underwear upright waltz waltzed wandered weirdness what'll whatcha wicker wisdom wonderin worth would've wrapper ya'll yankees yessir you'bout younger zalea