Title - On My Honor Author: Bauer, Marion Dane Publisher: Yearling Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience. How can he face their parents and the terrible truth? Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2186 5.3 930 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 48 Total # of Words 3539 # of Different Words 953 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2595 73.3% # of Hi freq words 402 42.2% % of Long Sentences 15.6 Low Freq occurs 181 5.1% # of Low freq words 147 15.4% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Mature concepts: With common experiences or clear fantasy Features Character traits Complex character relationships Simple Plot Mood/tone Topics Death Swimming Accidents *Safety Obedience Honesty *Family & Friends *Feelings, Behaviors Responsibility Low Frequency Words accepted announced approaching bike's blacktop chemicals churned coasting concentrating cornfields crackly crazier current currents curving dangerously despite doubt drooling elaborately encounter enthusiastically exuberance fender fenders flailing flecks gators gawk gawking gesture girlish glance glancing glimpse gooseflesh gotta grasping handlebars handlegrips haphazardly honest honor hovering ignore ignored ignoring illinois imaginary intention ivy jaunt jeans jubilant lapping lasso laughter littler looped lunches maintained massage meadowlarks measuring mention mere merely mimicked mississippi momentum municipal muttered numbing occupied olds original ourselves outrageous pace peering perched permission plea pleaded prehistoric propped railing realize reddish redeemed refreshing replacement required resettled ridden riverbank romping route rubbery saddlebag schwinn scorcher sewage sheer shrugged sizzled slithering solemn solemnly sparse spine squinted straightened stripping structure suggesting surveyed swallow swept swirled swirls taunt toed toppled tow trapeze unbuttoned underbrush underwear upriver upward vermilion vermillion volume wanna what're wheeled wheelie wheelies whine whiner whining whirlpools whooping wobbled zabrinsky zabrinskys