Beautiful Feet's upper levels?

[marmeeofsix]

Hi! I'm new here, so I hope I'm posting this question in the right place.

Has anyone used Beautiful Feet's upper levels? Like....US & World History? Can you please share you opinions about it? I've heard some negative remarks about it on other forums and it makes me wonder if I should use it. Thanks

[jibaker103]

I am using BF Ancients Sr. level this semester and it is great. It has comprehension and higher level critical thinking type questions as well as vocabulary. It also has essay and research report prompts built in.

However it does not cover all of world history just Egypt, Greece and Rome in depth. I switched spines to World History: The Human Odyssey to cover other areas such as India, Asia, Africa, etc.

The books to be read are awesome in my opinion but if you want a full English credit you will need to add something for literary analysis, writing instruction, and grammar.

Our goal is to cover world history over a 2 year period using Ancients Sr., Medieval Sr., and Early American & World History. We will then move on to American History over a 2 year period using U.S. & World History Parts 1-4.

[Susan C.]

Hi! I'm new here, so I hope I'm posting this question in the right place.

Has anyone used Beautiful Feet's upper levels? Like....US & World History? Can you please share you opinions about it? I've heard some negative remarks about it on other forums and it makes me wonder if I should use it. Thanks

My son did the US and World History. It has been awhile, so I don't remember all of the books we did....I called Beautiful Feet and had them reduce the reading load, I only had one year, BF replaced a US history book my son didn't like. He read the Hakim series (whole thing, not just the few BF mentions, I guess you could say Hakim books were the spine, we also used a little of BJU as a spine). He also read the Marrin books, Jungle, Around the World in 80 days, and Up from Slavery. We watched the movies To Kill a Mockingbird, Hiding Place, and Fiddler on the Roof, and I think a war movie or two??

It was a good choice for us. It covers the history well, and the books are very good and memorable so the material "sticks." Possibly, it doesn't get into as much analysis as others would want, but my son and I had some great talks about what we read. Also, we didn't use BF for literature, he did A Beka American Lit. and their Grammar/Composition program.