Title - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Author: Taylor, Mildred D. Publisher: Puffin Unicorn Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre The story of one African-American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. Entertain Adventure RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2364 5.6 950 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 64 Total # of Words 3352 # of Different Words 1045 Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 2362 70.5% # of Hi freq words 411 39.3% % of Long Sentences 21.6 Low Freq occurs 296 8.8% # of Low freq words 243 23.3% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words 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 Features Character traits Character development Excessive # of characters Complex Problem/Solution Clear cause/effect Dialect/Accents Topics Attitudes *Community Freedom Behaviors Equality Rights *Citizenship & Laws *Feelings, Behaviors *Schools & Education Prejudice Low Frequency Words absently accordingly accustomed acres adjusted admonished advantage amiably announced annoyance approach appropriately associating awaiting barren belfry betcha billowed briars burnin burnin' burnings burnt caretaker caretaker's concentrate concentrating concession confederacy corduroy crabgrass dancin debt deepened dirtier disdainfully dishwater dislike dismal dismally dismissing disposition earful eastward echoed edges effect elementary emaciated emblazoned emblem emerged enveloping eventually exasperation exception expansive eyed fault fencing fore forested frantically freedom further gazed gazing generally gettin glance glared gleaned goin gonna gotta granger grangers grasping grimly gritty grudgingly gullies haze ignoring immediately imprisoned increased inquired intriguing irritatingly it'd've jagged jauntily jeremy jeremy's jus kaleb knell knowed knowingly ladylike lagged lanier laughin learnin lightly loitering loosely louisiana medicines memphis mention meticulously milling mississippi miz moments montier mornin' morosely mortgage multitude murmured nearing nephews nothin nothin' nursing offensive official ole opposite ought outa overhanging overlooked pained palms pasture patched pensively plantation plantations pockets practically preferring propped prospects protective questioned ragged raucous rd reconstruction remainder restrain result reunite revealed riddance ridiculed satisfaction saucer sausages scarlet scraggly scrambled secondary semicircle sensitive serpent seventh sharecropped sharecropping sheepishly should've shown shrill shrilly shrugged sickening sickly signaled sixties sloping slyly smellings smudged smugly sneakin spewing splotched stacey stacey's stalks stalling stammered startin stilts strangely stride studied stunts sufficiently suspiciously swelling swirling terms testily threadbare threatened threatening thrust tidbit tiered timid tormentor towheaded transposed troublesome trudged unable undaunted underhanded uneasily vigorously virgin visible walled wandered wanna weakly what'd whipped whistling whitewashed wishin wrist y'all y'all's yankee younger youngest