The Master’s Academy of Fine Arts is excited to offer Cordis Academy, a college prep school, to our Master’s Academy, Masterkey Academy, and Portfolio Academy families.  Cordis Academy is an academic program that integrates the applicable historical time period with core academic class instruction and an eye toward better qualifying children for advanced education. 

The word Cordis comes from the Greek and means -  twisting fibers together to make  a rope.  In Ecclesiastes 4:12 it says that “A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.” For Cordis Academy the three cords represent the ACADEMICS, the ARTS, and the HEART.

For grades K-5 through 5^th, Cordis Academy uses a Unit Study approach to the academics while incorporating a Charlotte Mason teaching style in the classroom.  We provide a hands-on, creative environment within the classroom while integrating the fine arts for a complete and well rounded education.  Instead of the students merely learning historical facts, they are totally immersed into the historical time period thus encouraging an excitement for learning.  We see 6^th grade as a transition year and a progression from a Unit Study approach to a more Creative Classical Education approach.  For grades 7^th thru 12^th, Cordis Academy follows a Creative Classical Education approach to learning with a creative twist.  The Creative Classical Education approach uses history as a foundation and framework behind all of the academic subjects.  Cordis uses a creative classroom teaching style which encourages deductive reasoning skills and engaging student interactions.  Students are able to think and express themselves logically in both a verbal and written format.  This approach to education helps the student assimilate and retain information for long term use in higher education.  The National Standards for each subject matter and grade level are taught while using the Creative Classical Education approach within the classroom.  Cordis Academy is a college prep program giving the students a well rounded education by including the study of the arts and academics.

Our teachers provide an adventurous classroom environment in order to engage the students in learning as well as to build the student’s confidence, fostering trust, and encouraging them to become better students.

For students attending K5 thru 6^th grade, in the 2009-2010 school year, Cordis Academy along with Master’s Academy will be studying Medieval-Renaissance Period.  For students attending 7^th-12^th grade, the historical time period that will be studied will be Medieval/Renaissance/Baroque Time Periods in correlation with their Arts History class. 

Students attending Cordis Academy do not need to be enrolled in Master’s Academy, Masterkey Academy, or Portfolio Academy at the Woodstock or Marietta location. 

Cordis Academy meets one day per week and is used in conjunction with attendance in Master’s Academy of Fine Arts, Masterkey Academy, and Portfolio Academy classes (held on a separate day) to give children a well-rounded education.  We strongly believe that the fine arts need to be part of the student’s education experience.  Students will receive instruction in their core academic classes: Language Arts (writing, literature, grammar, etc.), Math, Science, History/Geography and Foreign Language.  Students will receive assignment sheets and sealed testing information for the week at the end of the class day.  It is expected that all work and tests be returned the next class day unless otherwise noted.  Cordis Academy students may seek accreditation through Ivy Manor (in association with Georgia Accreditation Commission).  We will only be accepting 12-15 students per grade level for the fall of 2009.