Honors and CP students: Please use this note-taking guide when reading. *Core level students - see below.
Theme: Immigrant stories, diversity, novels / fiction
All incoming eleventh graders are EXPECTED to read one book from the list below. Teachers will begin the school year with lessons and assessments that will incorporate these texts.
*You are responsible for securing your own copy.
**Each title below is linked to a book summary on Goodreads
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
American Street - Ibi Zoboi
Love, Hate, and Other Filters - Samira Ahmed
All American Boys - Jason Reynolds
All American Muslim Girl - Nadine Jolie Courtney
American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
Everything Sad Is Untrue - Daniel Nayeri
Mexikid by: Pedro Martin
Almost American Girl by: Robin Ha
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by: Daniel James Brown
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany by: Andrew Maraniss
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by: Steve Sheinkin
Aniana Del Mar Jumps In by: Jasminne Mendez
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by: Arshay Cooper
Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream by: Ibtihaj Muhammad
Honors- Additional MUST read: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
*Please use the Post-It note method, focusing on social standards and expectations
**All of the book titles have been selected, in coordination with the WRHS English Department Chair, as well as the Library Media Specialist, by the grade level teachers, read by at least one of the grade level teachers, and reflect the grade level curriculum. These books have also been chosen to reflect a diversity of reading levels, interests, subject matter, voices and perspectives. We have provided choices at each grade level, for parents and students to decide what book choice best suits their summer reading needs.