Title - Shadow Divers Author: Kurson, Robert Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre This is the story of the discovery in 1991 of a WWII German U-boat, sunk sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey, by deep sea divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, and their six-year obsession with identifying the submarine that sank with its crew. Inform Informational RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 4390 7+ 1150 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 55 Total # of Words 3556 # of Different Words 1229 Ave Word/.Sent 18 Hi Freq occurs 2326 65.4% # of Hi freq words 404 32.9% % of Long Sentences 39.8 Low Freq occurs 463 13% # of Low freq words 366 29.8% 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 Table of Contents Glossary Chapters Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Sequence of Events: Several shifts in time Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Integral Setting Complex Problem/Solution Difficult names Foreign words Topics Boats Teams/Teamwork Danger War Determination Ships Discovery *Feelings, Behaviors Underwater diving Low Frequency Words abandon abandoned abide abilities aboard academic according aesthetics alongside anatomy announcement antihuman appointed approaching articles artifacts bachelor beacons beers beholden benign betray biology blueprints brawniest brielle brielle's brimming buildup bury cacophony carte cautionary ceramic challenge challenging chartered circumstance clients cohorts collective commentary commentators commissioned community compass compelled conceive conceived conceiving conducted connoisseur constructed contemplating contempt convenience corpses countless covet crap cratered curators customers dabblers dagali dainty deadliest decade decades deceptive decompression dedicated depth depths descend devoured diaries disoriented disputes diving's dockside dockyards doria doria's doubloons drawn dredges emaciated envisioned equipment era eras establishment everest exploration faculties firstborn fistfights former formulated freighters fucking fully galleons galley giddy glorified glory goddamn gotta goulash gracefully greats greenhorns grooved guarded harbor hardiest harts hastened hell helm helms henrique heyday historical hopelessly hoping hull ilk imagination imagined immediately immortals impediment improvisation incensed inclined innocents insight instinct insured interlocking italia jaundiced jersey jewelry judgment knifepoint knowing lacked legend legendary lifelines liner liners lobsters locals location logo luggage mélange magazines majestic mantel mast material mattered measure mesh mind's miniature minor modiglianied mohawk moments monetary morsel motion motions mount mounted nagle nagle's nantucket narcosis nation's nature navigation neighborhood neighbors nicked nitrogen noble norness northeast novels object objective occasionally ordinary organism organizations orientation original otherwise ounce outboard outfitted outright overflowing paced panoramas passenger passion patrol patrons pawed penetrated pennsylvania percolating perils pewter photograph photographs physical pier pioneer's pioneers planks pleaded plunge possession possibility potential potentially practically practitioner precisely prime primed propellers prove province purpose purser's pursuits ramshackle random rans recalls recent recover recovering recreational recruited regularly regulars regulators relegated relics represented required reroute rerouted rescued resided respected retired retrieved reveled rhythms rickety rippled romanced rotted rouge routinely rudimentary sake salesman salvage sandals saucers scallop scenes schmooze scrawled scuba season seeker seeker's seemingly sellout sensible series shallowest shared sherbet shipping shipwreck shipwreck's shipwrecks sideways sightseers silt siren sledgehammer slither slurring smokers smorgasbord souls spires sport's stamina stern stockholm stolt strenuous stringy structure studied stunned sunken surly surrendered survival survive survived swedish swirling symbolism tattered texel tilting tolten tourists transport tuned twenties typical unbuffered uncharted uncover underwater undiscovered unexplored unilaterally utensils vessel vessel's vessels viewing virtually vision wannabes warships wheeler wheelhouse whipping whispers wisdom worsened worth wreckage