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Summer Reading

Summer reading is required at WCCHS.  Why?  According to the National Summer Reading Association "For many young people, the summer “opportunity gap” contributes to gaps in achievement, employment and college and career success." Studies on this website found students who did not read during the summer months lagged behind their book reading peers.   Let's close the learning gap and read!
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Freshmen: Class of 2021 
​Book Previews: Click here

English I: Choose one of the following to read:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Rash by Pete Hautman
*The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

English I Honors: Choose one of the following to read:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
*The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

English I Honors:  Read Both
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

* Available free online from Kindle Free or Project Gutenberg

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Sophomore: Class of 2020
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English 2: Choose one of the following to read
Animal Farm by George Orwell 
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Columbine by David Cullen
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
*How Long Will I Cry? by Harvey Miles
Lockdown: Escape From Furnace by Alexander G. Smith

English 2 Enriched: Choose one book from above
AND Read Both: Click here
​The Circle by Dave Eggers
A Path Appears by Nicholas D. Kristof

English 2 Honors: Choose one of the following to read:
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Breakthrough by Jack Andraka
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Station Eleven by Emily S. John

English 2 Honors:  Read Both
*1984 by George Orwell
​​Columbine by David Cullen

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* Available free online from Kindle Free or Project Gutenberg

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Junior: Class of 2019
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English 3: Choose one of the following to read:
(ESL 3 & 4)
*Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Allegedly by Tiffany Jackson
The Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
If I Was Your Girl Merridith Russo
In the Country we Love by Diane Guerrero
March by John Lewis
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

English 2 Enriched: Choose one book from above
AND Read Both: Click here
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Wild by Cheryl Stayed

AP Language and Composition students must choose 1 of the 7 books above AND Read: Click here
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer                                        

 

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*Available free online from Kindle Free or Project Gutenberg
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Senior: Class of 2018
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Senior Electives: Choose one of the following to read
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Saenz
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be by Frank Bruni


AP Literature: Choose two of the following to read:
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Ceremony by Leslie Silko
*A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

AP Literature Read: 
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger


* Available free online from Kindle Free or Project Gutenberg


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