Recommended Homeschooling Classes, Summer and 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.

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AP European History Class

ADVANCED PLACEMENT EUROPEAN HISTORY
Taught by Mark Cruthers
Thursdays 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Starting Date: Thursday August 30, 2007

AP European History is offered to all students who wish to take an accelerated AP Class in European History for college credit usually equaling two quarter courses. This course will be offered both as a classroom course and in our new virtual classroom. Please contact Mark Cruthers if you are interested in the virtual classroom.

AP European History is a two-semester survey of European History from the Renaissance through the Twentieth Century. Solid reading and writing skills, along with the willingness to devote considerable time to homework and study are necessary to succeed.

Focus: Historical Content
AP writing rubric
Exam Preparation

Cost: $455.00 per semester.
Textbook ($89.00)
Material Fee of $15.00
Exam Fee of $84.00 (estimated).
Contact: Mark Cruthers (760) 868-2458

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The concepts introduced by Maria Montessori in 1907 now begin another hundred years of influence. She believed in basing education on obseving children and how they learn rather than upon an arbitrary curriculum.
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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
- Joseph Stalin

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Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, "Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all.
- Socrates