Title - Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr Author: Bader, Bonnie Publisher: Penguin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics even when his life was threatened, King was also an advocate for the poor. Inform Biographies/Auto RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1423 4.2 810 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 34 Total # of Words 3025 # of Different Words 779 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 2078 68.7% # of Hi freq words 304 39% % of Long Sentences 6.2 Low Freq occurs 208 6.9% # of Low freq words 133 17.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Formal Inferences: Some implications Inserts/Side bars Time Lines Concepts: Concrete/Simple Social Table of Contents Chapters Headings Features Character traits Integral Setting - Historical Topics *History Heroes Freedom African Americans Slavery Low Frequency Words abolished advancement aisle association auburn balcony charcoal choir citizens college confederacy confederate confidence congregation courtroom crozer diplomas disobey easygoing ebenezer education encouraged enroll fairer flown freeing gandhi gandhi's godse government graduated heartfelt hindu homeland homeschooled importantly impressed impression inspired january judges lawyer league linda's mahatma martin's massachusetts ministers minstrel montgomery morehouse movement nathuram national negative neighborhood nonviolent northern operas opportunities passengers pastor peace peaceful pennsylvania performer performers personality persuaded political porbandar practiced preach preached president prison protests public purpose racist radical raising reasoning refused register responsible restaurants result scotts seamstress segregation seminary separate separated separating sermon sermons sharecroppers shared shopkeeper simsbury slavery somebodyness southern speech speeches spiritual sr studied studies supreme sworn teachings theater theological theology thoreau thoreau's throughout tobacco topeka treatment turban tuskegee union unjust violence weakening weighed whites yoki yolanda younger