WHS Summer Reading List 2007
English Department
Entering grade 9
Honors:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A biography or autobiography of your choice
Level 1:
Marley and Me by John Grogan
A biography or autobiography of your choice
Entering grade 10
Honors:
Select a book that’s been made into a movie (250 pages or more,
appropriate grade level). Take notes as you read so you have a
reliable summary. After reading the book, see the movie and take
notes. Note how the book and movie are the same. Pay careful
attention to how the book and the movie are different.
AND
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Level 1:
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
A non-fiction book of your choice
Entering grade 11
AP Language:
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
A biography or autobiography of your choice (over 250 pages)
Honors:
Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His Mother by James
McBride
Level 1:
A non-fiction book of your choice
AND
ONE of the following:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Entering grade 12
AP Literature:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
Wit by Margaret Edson
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Contemporary Literature
Honors:
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
A non-fiction book of your choice (over 250 pages)
An anthology of poems by one of the following authors:
Robert Frost
W.H. Auden
Sylvia Plath
Maya Angelou
Walt Whitman
Gwendolyn Brooks
Level 1:
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
A non-fiction book of your choice
Humanities
Honors:
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
(Read the entire book).
Cinema Paradiso directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
(Watch and take careful notes on this film).
Level 1:
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
(Read Part One: “Experiences in a Concentration Camp”).
Cinema Paradiso directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
(Watch and take careful notes on this film).