WFISD 2011 Summer Reading List

Hirschi:

Grade 9:  To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Grade 10:  Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

Grade 11:  Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Grade 12: The Sorrows of Young Werther – Goethe,The Stranger – Camus, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Solzhenitsyn

Rider:

Grade 9: To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee  

Grade 10: Read The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd and choose one from this list: A River Runs Through It - Norman MacLean, All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque, Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya, Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin, My Antonia – Willa Cather, or Obasan – Joy Kogawa

Grade 11: Read Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton and choose one from this list: The Awakening - Kate Chopin, The Color Purple - Alice Walker, Beloved - Toni Morrison, Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston, The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Grade 12: Read Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen and choose one from this list: Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt, Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton, How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn, Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey, Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson, Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 

WFHS:

Grade 9 optional choice:  To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee, The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver, or Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya

Grade 10 optional choice: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens or Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Grade 11 required:  The Crucible - Arthur Miller

Grade 12 required choice:   Hamlet - Shakespeare, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, or Lord of the Flies - William Golding