Title - My Antonia Author: Cather, Willa Publisher: Prestwick Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl named Antonia. A vivid portrayal of immigrant life on the American prairie during the nineteenth century. Persuade Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3214 7+ 1090 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 75 Total # of Words 3834 # of Different Words 1171 Ave Word/.Sent 18 Hi Freq occurs 2929 76.4% # of Hi freq words 458 39.1% % of Long Sentences 39.8 Low Freq occurs 306 8% # of Low freq words 264 22.5% 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 Sequence of Events: Mostly chronological Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Complex plot Alternating voice Dialect/Accents Topics Helping *Habitats/Environments *Family & Friends Relationships Low Frequency Words ability accented accompany ache acquainted adventurous advice affection announces antonia's anxious anxiously approached approvingly apt arabian ardent astonish awe awed bantering billowy blotted blustery boyhood bravado bulging burden burden's busied cautiously cellar cemented chaps clearness climate companion conductor confidence constitution conversation counsel coverlid covert crinkly curious curiously curled curtains deliberateness delicate desirous desperado destination determination dignity disappointments diseases disposition distinguished dude dugouts egyptian encumbered endurance energetic engraved enterprises enthusiasm excellency executive exploring extremes familiar favourite ferocious figures fleeting flowered footed foreign foreigners forthcoming fortune fortunes freemasonry fringed fuchs garment genevieve gentleman geraniums german gesture glances gophers grimy groves handsome harvests headquarters headstrong heavily heeled hieroglyphics hollow immediately immigrant immigrants impetuously impressive impulsiveness incapable inflection influence inheritance inscribed intelligence intense interestingly interminable intonation introduction jilted jolted jurisdiction kindly knots knowledge lantern lanterns lasso lawyer lightly likely lively lover's lurched maltese manage manuscript marpole marriage material mediocre midland milder mining missionary missouri moments montana moustache movements narrative naturally nebraska noticeable obelisk obscure oilcloth opportunities oracular otto overcoat overslept passenger passion pastures patroness peered personal picketing plains plaster plastered pleasant plush pneumonia poets portfolio positively prairie prayers prefixed presence presentation presently pricked protection psalms quayle railway railways rearrange recalls relatives remarkable restless revived ridge rimmed romantic roughened roused rumpled rutland sacred satisfactory scarcely season settlement severe shawl sheltered shimerdas shone shooing shrill siding sinister solemnly solicitous sombrero somewhat spectacles spurs stairway starlight stiffly stifled stimulating stitched stockings straggling stripped substantially suffrage suggestion surely surrounded syllable sympathetic temperamentally theater thrust timber travelled undraped undulating unexpected unimpressionable unknown utter vegetation wandering whisper whitewashed whither wiry worldly worth wrinkled youthful