Recommended Homeschooling Classes, Fall 2008 and ongoing

Classes are held at the EIE Resource Center unless otherwise indicated: 2640 S. Myrtle Ave.Monrovia, CA 91016 (626) 821-0025. Some courses may also be offered online.
Many classes are ongoing with open enrollment. Please contact the individual teacher for enrollment questions, and online class availability.

Homeschooling in Action

BEGINNING WRITERS I COURSE Level A

Ages 9-12
This course is an introduction to those unfamiliar with The Institute for Excellence In Writing curriculum. Students will learn a structure and style of writing while producing creative writing projects and completing a mini-research report. This class will cover note taking and summarizing from references and narratives, structure, style and more

Meets: Thursdays 2:45 - 4:15

Fees: $25.00 annual registration fee & 175.00 per student, per semester before August 1st. $200.00 after August 1st. Course duration: 1 year.

CONTACT: Sharon Ashford at (818) 360-2522 or (818) 497-3913)

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Some great thoughts for homeschoolers.

Homeschooling in Action

If you think in seasons, plant cereals. If you think in decades, plant trees. If you think in centuries, educate your children.
-Chinese Proverb

Homeschooling in Action

A homeschooling parent in Canada recently sent me a letter which ended with a quote by Roque Dalton: "May we keep hauling up the morning." I like the metaphor of a sailing ship upon the sea for parenthood and for homeschooling. There are no completely reliable charts, and so we must often navigate without them. We must learn for ourselves how to find the currents, avoid the reefs and storms, and enter the harbors. As we haul up the sails to go on sailing, so we haul up the morning for the adventures of each successive day. There is room for everybody on this ocean, and there is no pilot's license required or worth having. We must trust ourselves and our children. May each of us keep hauling up the morning.
-Earl Gary Stevens, Home Education Magazine, 1990

Homeschooling in Action

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.
-John Taylor Gatto, foreword, "The Art of Education"

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