Modern American/World (6-8) W/O A Child's First Book

I really do love Beautiful Feet Books curriculum. This was a great set but I wish I had split it into 2 years instead of 1. There were days we were reading for over an hour, and my kids would just get lost because it was so much. Great literature choices, but it would have been better to take it in at a slower pace, in my opinion.

I used this guide for my advanced 5th grader. It was perfect. He read most of the books to himself by I also read them because they were very interesting and I wanted to be able to be part of the conversation with him. I’m a long time BF fan and this guide did not disappoint. They book selection was perfect, sparking a lot of discussions on various topics. I do recommend to read with your student Frederick Douglas’s book as it’s a very important topic and so much conversation will come out of it. I feel like everything, every important topic, every important person, every conflict and war were cover meticulously in this guide. I’m very glad we used it.

This is an excellent course that I and my children (ages 12 and 13) absolutely loved! The books are so enjoyable that my kids often begged me to read ahead. The stories are so moving and memorable that I was learning right along with my kids. A year later, and we still reference things we learned from this course in our conversations. This was the first time we'd done a literature-based history course and we are hooked!

We did history 3x/week and didn't finish this one (we usually don't finish BF programs in one year if only 2-3 times/week). We're going to finish up this year before we start medieval. Lots of wonderful books with this study guide!

My kids loved studying American history and they really enjoyed the living books! This is how I wish I could have learned history when I was younger.