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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ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY

TAUGHT BY: Mark Cruthers

Welcome to AP United States History "APUSH"! APUSH is offered to all ISP students who wish to take an accelerated AP class in U.S. History for college credit, usually equaling two-quarter courses. APUSH is a challenging course that is meant to be the equivalent of two freshman advanced introductory college courses.

This course is a two semester survey of U.S. History from discovery of the New World through the entire twentieth century. Solid reading and writing skills, with the willingness to devote considerable time to homework and study are necessary to succeed. Weekly reading will average thirty to forty pages of text as well as other reading material. Emphasis is placed on critical and evaluative thinking skills, essay writing, interpretation of original documents, and historiography.

This course is designed to prepare your student for the AP Exam in May of 2007. While we cannot guarantee passing the exam, we can claim that we have a 100% pass rate by all AP courses taught by Mark Cruthers since he started three years ago.

WHEN: Thursday 4:00 - 7:00 pm

COST: First Semester: $485.00 with payment due by August 24, 2006
Second Semester: $485.00 with payment due by January 11, 2006

EXAM FEE: $83.00 (estimate). Exam will be on May 11, 2007

TEXT COST: Approximately $80.00 (available at EIE Bookstore)

CONTACT: Mark Cruthers (760) 868-2458 Best time to call is after 4:30 pm Mon - Fri or Saturday after 9:00 am Email: rousseau1789@yahoo.com

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I think my deepest criticism of the educational system at that period [junior high and high school], and that also applies to other periods, is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.
-Carl Rogers (1902 - ) U.S. psychologist, in R. Evans' "Carl Rogers: The Man and His Ideas"

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The agenda of public schooling has been, for the entire twentieth century, to remove the power of people to think for themselves. A full analysis is impossible here; but you need to realize that because of the systemic, heirarchical nature of schooling, your local teachers, principals, superintendents, and the like have almost no say in this - they are pedagogues, which means practically that they administer routines made elsewhere far away.
-John Taylor Gatto, in "The Homeschooling Book of Answers"

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We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty rewards--gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists or Phi Beta Kappa keys--in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else.
-John Holt