Welcome to Mr. Veon's Advanced Placement and Composition blog. This blog will be updated weekly over the summer so that rising seniors can receive extra help regarding summer reading. This summer's reading selection includes Kurt Vonnegut's short, anti-war themed novel Slaughterhouse Five, William Shakespeare's greatest tragedy Hamlet, and Tom Stoppard's retelling of Hamlet entitled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Summer reading is not optional. It is necessary that we read numerous plays and novels across the year so that we can successfully respond to the Free Response portion of the AP test in the spring which requires students to refer in great detail to a novel or play of literary merit that they have read.
It is best to keep a notebook of your ideas, significant passages, and even questions. Students will (over the first two weeks of school) complete one short test on each reading selection and one essay on any one of the three reading selections.
There is a no retake policy in AP classes at Troup High School so do good work and take advantage of this blog as much as possible.
Blogging and creating blogs will be a point of emphasis in the class this year in partial satisfaction of Troup County's commitment to intergrating technology in all classrooms. See my page list for links to reasonably priced on-line bookstores.
Lastly, I am looking forward to working with the class of 2012 and to helping them to be fully prepared to think and write at and beyond the collegiate level.
