Title - The Bronze Bow Author: Speare, Elizabeth George Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin is a fierce, hotheaded young man bent on revenging his father's death by forcing the Romans from his land. Daniel's palpable hatred for Romans wanes when he starts to hear the gentle lessons of the traveling carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth. Persuade Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3175 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 64 Total # of Words 5213 # of Different Words 1303 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 4029 77.3% # of Hi freq words 547 42% % of Long Sentences 10.3 Low Freq occurs 351 6.7% # of Low freq words 286 21.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No 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: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Sequence of Events: Chronological Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Character development Integral Setting - Historical Complex plot Author Bias Difficult names Topics Cause/Effect Conflicts *Citizenship & Laws *Feelings, Behaviors Religion Relationships Low Frequency Words abruptly account accurate acknowledge apprentice approaching approval astonished astonishment baffled barren bearings blacken boulder boulders breathed brute burdens burgeoning burly calloused caution certainty chariots charity cheekbones cheeked cheesemakers churned complexions conquerors conscience contempt countrymen coward cranny crawling crevices crimson crouched crucified curiosity curse cursed curtains daffodils damascus defiance deliberately deliverance despair dingy disappointed dismal distinctly distinguishing distracted diverted drawn ease ebol edged efficient elation embarrassed emperor escaped evident familiar features fellow feverish fiercely figures flask flax flicking flogging flung flushed foolhardy forge fortress frankness freedom galilean galileans galleys gesture getup girdle glance glancing glistened goatskin grasped grateful groaning grudgingly hatred headdress heathen helpless herded hesitated hoarse host hostility hotly hungrily hurl ignorant ignoring imagination imaginations imagined impatient impressed insistence instant instantly intensely intention israel jackals jagged jewel joining knobbed knowing knuckles landmarks lash legionaries lingered lively livening longing lurching lured maddeningly malthace mangy measure messiah miserable muffled murderous muttered myrrh nation naturedly noonday nudged nursing oath observe occasional oleander olive olives opposite orchards ordinary ought palestine passionately pathway patriot patriotism peace peer picturing pleasure plodded poised pounce pour practiced pudgy questioned rabbi raising reappear rebelled recently recognized recognizing reddish refusing remembrance reputation resentful resentment restless ridged rosh route ruddy runaway sandal sandals satisfied savage savagely scarcely scarecrow scowled scrambled scribe's seizing sentries sepphoris shaded shared shimmering shortly shrill shrinking shutting skimping skinned skirmish snatch snatched snipping sober solemnly spat sprang springtime spurt staff stalking stammered startled stiffened stirred stock straggled straightforward strode strutting stubborn studied stung summit suspected sweat swiftly sword synagogue taut terraces terror tetrarch's thacia thickets thong thrashing thread tiberias tiberius tightening towered tradesmen treacherous tunic uncovered underfed uneasily unmistakably unreconciled unresisting unwilling urged violent vouch wailing wandered warned wary whirled winded youth zealot