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Summer Reading 2024

Watchung Hills Regional High School

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Summer Reading 2024

 

Please see grade and course level guidelines for summer reading below. As always, we want you to read actively. Write down your favorite passages - those you find memorable and those that raise questions for you - and remember to do your part in September to keep the conversation going as you interact with your new peers and teachers at WHRHS.


In-class essays on summer reading will take place during the first weeks of class and will count as part of the first semester grade. For audio versions of these books, download the Libby app and use your valid local library card number to borrow audio files.

 

School-Wide-Read, required of all grade levels:

The Eyes & the Impossible, Dave Eggers

 

Grade 9

Grade 9 book options:

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

The Color of Water, James McBride

The Playbook, Kwame Alexander

 

English 1

Read one (1) of the grade 9 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers

English 1 College Prep

Read one (1) of the grade 9 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers

English 1 Accelerated

Read one (1) of the grade 9 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers

English 1 Honors

Read one (1) of the grade 9 book options, The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, and “The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel (available online).

 

Grade 10

Grade 10 book options: 

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

They Called Us Enemy, George Takei

Untwine, Edwidge Danticat

 

English 2

Read one (1) of the grade 10 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

English 2 College Prep

Read one (1) of the grade 10 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

English 2 Accelerated

Read two (2) of the grade 10 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

AP Language and Composition

Read one (1) of the grade 10 book options, The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, and The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

 

Grade 11

Grade 11 book options: 

The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown

Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

 

English 3

Read one (1) of the grade 11 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

English 3 College Prep

Read one (1) of the grade 11 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

English 3 Accelerated

Read two (2) of the grade 11 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

AP Literature and Composition

Read one (1) of the grade 11 book options, The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

 

Grade 12

Grade 12 book options: 

The Defining Decade, Meg Jay

Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

 

English 4

Read one (1) of the grade 12 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

English 4 College Prep

Read one (1) of the grade 12 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

English 4 Accelerated

Read two (2) of the grade 12 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers.

English 4 Honors and AP Literature and Composition (Gr. 12)

Read one (1) of the grade 12 book options, The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri