Read one of the four historical/autobiographical books and answer the Reaction Guide which accompanies it.  Reaction Guides can be found here.

Hiroshima by John Hersey (Journalist Hersey chronicals the lives of six Hiroshima citizens following the dropping of the first atomic bomb in 1945)

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston (Japanese internment camp)

Glass Castle:  A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (true story of triumph in a dysfunctional family)

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (true story of the sinking of the Titanic)

Honors 12 must also read Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.