Beautiful Feet users...

[Love2Smile]

Does anyone use BF for highschool? How much writing is in it? Do you add another writing/lit program along with it. Ie: would Light. Lit be too much to add along with it?

[Love2Smile]

anyone??

[Susan C.]

I used Beautiful Feet for ds, I didn't use it for writing, I used either A Beka or BJU for composition. If there is duplication, just decide which you will do.

[Jean in Wisc]

I choose various sources as literature guides for my children in the high school years. BF is one of them. I've never used it as a complete course. I do enjoy their literature guides . They are not as intense as Omnibus but they give us some comprehension questions and essays--and some books just don't need to be as deeply studied as others, imo.

I have always thought BF high school books would be interesting to do, but they mix together books of various reading levels, and unfortunately, we've always read a number of the easier books beforehand. It just has never worked out. As far as the writing component, I can't image doing only that for English composition. I would add to it.

Jean

[jibaker103]

My grand plan is to use BF and Spielvogels History of the World: The Human Odyssey starting now in 8th and going all the way through high school. So we will use Ancients Sr., Medieval Sr., Early American & World History, and U.S. & World History Parts 1-4. We will also tie in Trail Guide to World and U.S. Geography.

For writing I will use IEW Ancient, Medieval, The Elegant Essay, and U.S. vol. 2 HBWL concentrating on Research Reports Unit #6, Essays Unit #8, and Critiques Unit #9.

For literary Analysis I'm using DITHOR, Figuratively Speaking, Teaching the Classics, Literary Lessons from LOTR, and Windows to the World. After all of this if we still struggle we will use guides such as Sparknotes, Glencoe, Progeny Press, etc.

By the way we are homeschooling year round.

[Julie in MN]

Does anyone use BF for highschool? How much writing is in it? Do you add another writing/lit program along with it. Ie: would Light. Lit be too much to add along with it?

I think BF is intended to be a "history" credit. The literature is to replace a "history textbook," not to replace the English requirement for literature, composition, & other English topics.

My dd used most of BF Ancients, and I counted it towards history and as I recall bits of it toward Bible and English when she did a lot in those areas, but basically for history credit.

Julie

[Greensa]

Last year we did BF Early American & World History (title may not be exactly right). While we read (almost) all the books, I picked and chose among the writing. We used the questions as springboard to discussion and I chose whether to have her write out the essays or do other writing that week.
This year we're combining Spielvogel and the later American history in a similar fashion, and in writing we're using Writing for 100 Days. We're reading and doing the first day's lesson in Writing, then she's expected to apply the topic (word choice, etc) to her week's writing in history, science, etc. I expect her to show a rough draft then mark it herself to edit, applying the lesson learned in writing. Since I expect 1-2 short (1 page) essays a week, she should have sufficient application, I hope.
By doing this, I hope to show her how to use the writing lesson in her everyday writing, while not taking up valuable time adding in a "writing for the sake of writing" essay (which drives her crazy. She is ultimately a science kid [this year, at least]).
Sara

[Susan C.]

My grand plan is to use BF and Spielvogels History of the World: The Human Odyssey starting now in 8th and going all the way through high school. So we will use Ancients Sr., Medieval Sr., Early American & World History, and U.S. & World History Parts 1-4. We will also tie in Trail Guide to World and U.S. Geography.

For writing I will use IEW Ancient, Medieval, The Elegant Essay, and U.S. vol. 2 HBWL concentrating on Research Reports Unit #6, Essays Unit #8, and Critiques Unit #9.

For literary Analysis I'm using DITHOR, Figuratively Speaking, Teaching the Classics, Literary Lessons from LOTR, and Windows to the World. After all of this if we still struggle we will use guides such as Sparknotes, Glencoe, Progeny Press, etc.

By the way we are homeschooling year round.

Early American and World is younger, middle school level. The Foster books are good, but definitely not high school level. Are you going to up the level with your spine? I have these and am wondering how to make them high school level...

[Susan C.]

Last year we did BF Early American & World History (title may not be exactly right). While we read (almost) all the books, I picked and chose among the writing. We used the questions as springboard to discussion and I chose whether to have her write out the essays or do other writing that week.
This year we're combining Spielvogel and the later American history in a similar fashion, and in writing we're using Writing for 100 Days. We're reading and doing the first day's lesson in Writing, then she's expected to apply the topic (word choice, etc) to her week's writing in history, science, etc. I expect her to show a rough draft then mark it herself to edit, applying the lesson learned in writing. Since I expect 1-2 short (1 page) essays a week, she should have sufficient application, I hope.
By doing this, I hope to show her how to use the writing lesson in her everyday writing, while not taking up valuable time adding in a "writing for the sake of writing" essay (which drives her crazy. She is ultimately a science kid [this year, at least]).
Sara

How is the Writing for 100 Days going? I have this, and would love to integrate writing assignments into other subjects!

[jibaker103]

Early American and World is younger, middle school level. The Foster books are good, but definitely not high school level. Are you going to up the level with your spine? I have these and am wondering how to make them high school level...
It does say it can be used for 9th grade but I will be enhancing it. It's exactly why I chose the spine I did.

This is our first full year of homeschooling after pulling him from ps. Although he reads at the 11th grade level, consumes novels within a week, and has read the LOTR Triology twice now over the past year and the Redwall series he has never read a classic or great book before.

So my goal is for this year is to nail down the basics of literary terms using Figuratively Speaking, learn to think about what he is reading using DITHOR, learn to apply literary terms through discussion using Teaching the Classics, and writing it down through Unit #9 critiques. We will use the logic stage recommendations from TWTM and BF as our reading material to do so.

After he has a good handle on the above we will do a mix of logic stage and rhetoric stage reading material from BF and TWTM incorporating Literary Lessons from LOTR. For example he will read excerpts of Beowulf, Sir Gawain, Idylls of the King and read the full versions of Blackships Before Troy, Sword in the Stone, etc.

Stage 3 will be using The Elegant Essay and Windows to the World to enhance the skills learned previously and learn to annotate. Whether we are still combining logic and rhetoric reading material will be up to Noah at this point. My guess is probably a little since he will only be in 9th unless he matures a great deal over the year and stops all the puberty grumbling! :lol:

The last stage is that he will be able to pickup any classic or great book to read, annotate, think, and write about it intelligently utilizing his understanding of literary terms, techiniques, analysis. If he ever gets stuck we can always look at one of the guides like Sparknotes, Glencoe, etc.

How fast he goes through these stages will entirely be up to him. I'm not to worried since we have 5 years and hs year round. I think, however, he will fly through it once he gets the hang of it because he loves reading so much!!

[Susan C.]

Jennifer,
You will enjoy doing full books with him devouring the books! My son was like that. My daughter likes to savor her books, stopping to imagine it, etc. and doesn't read nearly as fast. That is what is holding me back from doing full books with her.....I will have to homeschool her into adulthood :) or leave out many time periods.

I have your spine, and the books from BF Early American & World, but they are more boyish, my son enjoyed them. She would probably love to do the Foster books for high school, but I'm not sure.....she would definitely remember the material, but it does seem young. The Daughtery books are harder.

Right now, I am having her read Streams of Civilization, and adding a few of the BF books as we go. We use HO as an encyclopedia.

What is DITHOR? What is Figuratively Speaking?

Thanks!

[jibaker103]

Jennifer,
You will enjoy doing full books with him devouring the books! My son was like that. My daughter likes to savor her books, stopping to imagine it, etc. and doesn't read nearly as fast. That is what is holding me back from doing full books with her.....I will have to homeschool her into adulthood :) or leave out many time periods.

I have your spine, and the books from BF Early American & World, but they are more boyish, my son enjoyed them. She would probably love to do the Foster books for high school, but I'm not sure.....she would definitely remember the material, but it does seem young. The Daughtery books are harder.

Right now, I am having her read Streams of Civilization, and adding a few of the BF books as we go. We use HO as an encyclopedia.

What is DITHOR? What is Figuratively Speaking?

Thanks!
Drawn into the Heart of Reading http://www.heartofdakota.com/drawn-into.php

Figuratively Speaking http://www.amazon.com/Figuratively-Speaking-Gr-Learning-Works/dp/0881603171/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252374985&sr=8-1