Much more detailed information about ACTS can be found at their website.
ACTS, a ministry of EP Church of Annapolis, is a classical tutorial program for home schooled children in grades 2 to 11. It is designed to be a support to homeschooling parents. ACTS is available to families who have and interest in the classical educational paradigm. If their children are in grade 4 and above the families need to have EITHER home schooled for at least one year OR have at least one-year experience in a classical education setting. ACTS employs tutors who provide assistance in your home schooling efforts by imparting information on Monday and Thursday mornings in a classroom setting and organizing the material and providing detailed lesson plans that parents implement at home on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
We offer classes in Latin, logic (8th and 9th grade), speech, English, literature, history, math (high school levels only) science and Christian apologetics to home schooled students in 2nd through 11th grades on Monday and Thursday mornings from 8:00 - 12:00 in the fall of 2009. The high school level math and science classes are offered in the afternoon on Monday and Thursdays.
What is "Classical" education?
It is
a systematic course of study, emphasizing the study of Western theological and intellectual history which originated with the ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. The systematic study will teach the particulars of a given subject, the analytical thought necessary to tie the subjects together and the methods for effective expression of the acquired knowledge.
"For we let our young men and women go out unarmed, in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects." (The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers).
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