CymLloyd

=**Cym's Classroom Catastrophes**=

Introduction
Hi. I'm Cym, and I teach World History to 6th graders at Fritz Barnett Intermediate in Santa Fe, Texas. What's NOT to love about my job? I get to devote my time and energy to a subject I LOVE, then share that with young people. I get to feel, at the end of the day, as if I've tried to do my part to teach young people to think critically about what's happening in the world around us, and what decisions might be the best ones for a democratic nation to make.

media type="custom" key="6519847"
Attributions: IMG_2596 (Portal Dolmen, Ireland), by G.K. Raines, c. 2008, all rights reserved, used with permission Avebury, by Kurt Thomas Hunt, Flickr Creative Commons, some rights reserved IMG_6437 (Knowth, Bru na Boinne), by G.K. Raines, c. 2010, all rights reserved, used with permission IMG_7051 (New Grange, Ireland), c. 2010, G.K. Raines, all rights reserved, used with permission Pentre Ifan Prehistoric Burial Dolmen, by Mark Whatmough, Flickr Creative Commons, some rights reserved Summer Solstice 2010-Silbury Hill, by vintagedept (Ann Wuyts), Flickr Creative Commons, some rights reserved 240 Skara Brae Orkney, c. 2008 by G.K. Raines, all rights reserved, used with permission IMG_6898 (Tara, King's Stone), c. 2010 by G.K. Raines, all rights reserved, used with permission West Kennett Long Barrow, by oddsock (Ian Burt), Flickr Creative Commons, some rights reserved [|249 Standing Stones of Stennes Orkney], c. 2008 by G.K. Raines, all rights reserved, used with permission Music: Beethoven, Ludwig von. "Sonata for Piano No. 14, Moonlight Sonata--Adagio Sostenuto." Accessed via //Animoto,// 8 July 2010 at [|www.animoto.com]

Favorite Things

 * Books: Too many to name, but JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis are my favorite authors
 * Movie: Again, lots to choose from, but I really do like "Lady Jane." This "Jane" speaks eloquently and with great strength about her passions. Some of my favorite quotes also come from this movie. I won't bore you with those.
 * My favorite superheroes are the teachers I work with, who inspire me (and put up with me) 180+ days of the year.
 * Here's a very little Latin I learned once upon a time, but I'm not sure anymore if it's entirely correct:
 * < //Latina est mortua Lingua.// ||< Latin is a dead language. ||
 * < //Est clara Conspiricieri.// ||< It's clearly a conspiracy. ||
 * < //Prima Romanos necavit,// ||< First it killed the Romans, ||
 * < //Et nunc, mea necat.// ||< And now, it's killing me. ||

My favorite place to travel is Wales, GBR--more castles per square mile than any other place on earth.

**Burning Questions: **
**How old is too old to go back to college for a grad degree?

Has anyone in history ever //geometrically// trisected an angle? Can you?**


 * Can anyone tell me why every time I edit this page, it adds spaces ahead of the title?**

Web 2.0 STUFF
My Wordle:

media type="custom" key="6561475" width="240" height="240"
My Glog:

media type="custom" key="6556951"
Narnia map: @http://www.moviecitynews.com/arrays/images/2004/narnia/NarniaMap_fullsize.jpg Susan: @http://www.narniaweb.com/2010/06/narnia-com-screenshots-2/ __Trojan Gold__ cover: @http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/TR/vlarge/9780061656101_0_Cover.jpg Tolkien, JRR. "Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft Elves," Accessed online July 16, 2010 at @http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Hobbit. Wimpy artwork: @http://www.wimpyourself.com/