Recommended Homeschooling Classes

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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College Preparatory English Usage

English vocabulary, usage, comprehension, grammar and composition preparation for students of any age who are capable of handling college-preparatory material. Please see our Writing Skills Playsheets for a taste of class content and style. Course includes personal instructor attention, online text, extensive resources, graded compositions, moderated discussion forums and chatrooms. Class is also available in a purely online form.

WHEN: Meets Tuesdays 12:30 - 2:00 P.M. Starts September 12. Open enrollment during semester

COST: $15 per week or $75 per six-week block

Textbook: online text is included. Hardcopy text is available at the EIE Bookstore or ONLINE

CONTACT: K. Titchenell (626) 798-9657
or email: eieclass@abacus-es.com

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

Homeschooling parents can ignore what are for the most part government directives as to what shall be taught and when. Rather, parents and children can work together to develop courses of study that address long-term needs, interests, and capabilities in the context of what they, and not a bureaucracy of somewhat dubious credibility, deem important and necessary.
-David and Micki Colfax, "Homeschooling for Excellence"

Homeschooling in Action

We have reached a place in the history of Western Culture where we've got to raise children to be prepared for a situation which is no longer sharply defined in terms of functions and tasks. We have got to raise children who can deal with the unknown.
- Daniel Greenberg, in "Child Rearing"