Welcome to my class website. You'll be able to do a number of useful things here.

Click on “Blog” in the navigation bar and then click on your period number in order to find announcements about homework, tests, class assignments, etc.

Whenever you want to see your current progress in the class, click on “grades” in the navigation bar. After inputting your user name and password, you’ll then be able to view all of your current grades. The grades should be updated before each grading period and every few weeks.

That covers most of the basic features. Remember to let me know if you have trouble accessing anything in the site.

Note: The forum and links section are currently under construction.

» Mali coup leader backs transition president
20/05/12 11:21 from Yahoo! News: World News
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's caretaker president Dioncounda Traore will have his mandate extended beyond a 40-day period expiring Monday after the soldier who led Mali's March 22 coup agreed to drop his objections to the move. The accord betwe..

» Iraqi Kurdistan to push ahead with oil export plan
20/05/12 10:53 from Yahoo! News: World News
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Sunday it expects to start exporting its crude oil production along a new pipeline to the Turkish border by August 2013, defying Baghad in a long-running dispute over who sh..

» Serbians vote for president under threat of protest
20/05/12 10:28 from Yahoo! News: World News
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic and rightist Tomislav Nikolic went head to head on Sunday in a tense run-off election for Serbian president and the right to lead the struggling nation into talks on joining the Europea..

» Israel blasts foreign proposal on settlement goods
20/05/12 10:05 from Yahoo! News: World News
The Palestinian campaign to boycott goods produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank has received a boost from abroad with an unprecedented South African proposal to have the name of Israel dropped from labels on merchandise made in t..