Title - My Teacher Fried My Brains Author: Coville, Bruce Publisher: Addison-Wesley Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The first day of seventh grade is probably the worst day of Duncan Dougal's life. He knows that things are really bad when he finds an alien's hand in a Dumpster and then gets plugged into an alien brain fryer! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1201 4.0 780 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 59 Total # of Words 3348 # of Different Words 838 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2657 79.4% # of Hi freq words 393 46.9% % of Long Sentences 11.3 Low Freq occurs 130 3.9% # of Low freq words 94 11.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Little support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Some implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Simple Plot First Person Topics Aliens *Fictional Ideas/Charac *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Low Frequency Words according alien aliens black's boogey bopping brainpower conclusion confusion convinced crouched desperation disappearing dougal dumber dumpster duncan economics embarrassed equipment exploring fortunately frustrated future getaway gonna gross hookey immediately invasion involved jeans junior kidnapped kindly lateness laughter lecture major manage manuel mention naturally noogie orientation ourselves particularly permission pinhead plumber pouring presume punctuality rasped rearrange recognized responsibility revolting rough rowdy scheduled seventh shoved shrugged simmons situation skinnier snickering spattering stalling startle startled stunt substitute surrounded swallowed swamp swarmed sweat sympathy terrified terror theory thompson thompson's toothed tour twitchy unmasked uproar vietnamese warned weird whapped wriggle yanking