Today we will evaluate how helpful it was to learn the sets of Caesar's English words. We will measure this by the frequency of which these words appear in books we have read this semester.

The first book we will go over is Swiss Family Robinson.

Summary of Swiss Family Robinson:
This book is about a Swiss family on a boat to establish a colony. The boat gets battered by a storm and ends up shipwrecked. They survive using their wits and resourcefulness. They also adventured the island they arrived on and encountered giant boa constrictors, mischievous monkeys, and ferocious jackals. Many people assume the last name of the family is Robinson. The book is called Robinson because it is of the Robinson genre. The Robinson genre is a group of books similar to the book Robinson Crusoe.

The frequency 0.07% may not seem high! But it is! 0.07% is also the frequency of the words fact, join, speak, case, and off in the English language.

The source for frequency information analogies was the New General Service List (NGSL) at newgeneralservicelist.org.

In Swiss Family Robinson, the frequency of different Caesar's English words varied. Some roots had too many matches that weren't really roots and stems. For example: the root se had many matches of words that end in -se, but having nothing to do with separating. This made it hard to determine if it matched the root definition. The overall frequency was higher than expected because it equalled the frequency of many commonly used words.

587 words from Animal Farm were Caesar's English out of the total 35,392 words. A majority of the Caesar's English words were from the roots Anim and Com. The main root matches are Animal and Comrade.

Animal Farm covered a whooping 2% Caesar's English words, many of which were the Latin roots Anim and Com.

Animal Farm had a frequency of 0.3% without the major roots like anim and com. This was much higher than in Swiss Family Robinson even without the major roots because it was a shorter book.
In The Giver, the frequency was 0.22% and also had com as a major root.
In The Outsiders, 0.97 was the frequency, it was very high because it was a short book and it included major stems that might not even match the root.
Dracula also had a high frequency (0.7%) because of some of the same reasons,

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Animal Farm:
In Manor Farm, ol' Major is dying, but has an elaborate speech. The Speech inspires the other animals on the farm to rebel the humans and establish an Animal Farm. The success of the Animal Farm was a huge breakthrough. Animal farm was a utopia for animals, or was it?

The Giver:
Jonas lives in a community where there is no hunger, war, or suffering, neither love, color, nor music. As Jonas is assigned as Receiver of Memory, he must uncover the secrets of the past and why the community has to be this way.

The Outsiders Summary
In Ponyboy's neighborhood there are the greasers and the Socs. The greasers are the "bad boys" and the Socs are the rich kids. When Ponyboy, and Johnny Cade get in a fight, Johnny saves Ponyboy by killing a Soc, but then the two kids run away. This story has a good wrap-up because you figure out what book Ponyboy writes for school.

Dracula by Brian Stoker Summary
Jonathan Parker is a guest at Castle Dracula to help Count Dracula finalize his purchasing a house in London. One day as he is wondering around Castle Dracula he walks in a room where three woman jump on him like they are going to eat him. Then, a hand comes out and pulls all three women back. This leaves Jonathan wondering what is strange with this place. Meanwhile, a person in a mental asylum escapes, and when they find him he is at a church talking to a person. When they pull him away a bat-that-acts-non-bat-like flys away. What is going on?