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Beautiful Feet History Curriculum
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Product tags:
timeline
Publisher: Beautiful Feet
User Level: 1-5, 6-8, Pre-K/Kindergarten
Subject Area: History
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The Beautiful Feet History curriculum uses literature, specifically historical fiction, as a means to teach History to elementary and intermediate grades. Along with the book selections, a study guide and timelines are available that correspond to the books.
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| Reviewed by nhvest |
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Created at
1:07 PM EDT on
August 1, 2008
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Beautiful Feet Books fills a genuine need in the world of homeschooling – teaching history using non-textbooks. By using non-textbooks, the history is more real and more interesting. The reading selections for Beautiful Feet’s guides are mostly well-known and respected titles and authors, and most can be found at public libraries. The lesson plans are specific, giving directions for each day as to what book and what pages are to be read. There are also questions to be answered, research assignments, and mapping to be done.
I have used three guides from Beautiful Feet Books. The first guides I used were Early American History Primary and Intermediate. My girls were at ages far enough apart that they needed different levels. Both of my girls enjoyed the book selections. I read out loud to my younger daughter and my older daughter read on her own. The primary guide uses the wonderful D’Aulaire books. The guide asks that certain illustrations from the book be photocopied so the copies can be glued onto pages in a composition book. The student then copies given sentences under each illustration. When the study is complete, your child will have a wonderfully illustrated book about early American history. My daughter’s is a treasured keepsake.
One thing to remember…the guide says to photocopy to a specifically reduced size. Do this, or the copies will not fit in the composition book.
My only complaint about both of these guides is the seemingly endless amount of time spent on the Pilgrims. I cut the time down to something I considered more reasonable.
The other guide I used is Geography through Literature. This guide is actually four mini-studies using books by Holling C. Holling. These books are delightful to read and so much is learned just from reading these books. Each book is used to teach different geographies. The book Seabird, for example, is use for teaching world geography. Each mini-study has an accompanying large heavy paper map that is sepia-colored to give an aged appearance. The student maps cities, states, countries, bodies of water, and the travels of the characters in the book. Also, history is weaved into the studies. For example, the mini-study of Tree in the Trail not only covers the geography of the American southwest, but it also teaches about some of the Spanish explorers of that time period and about the changing lives of Native Americans who lived in the region. These completed maps are still here in my house, even though it has been several years since we did these studies, because my daughters still like to look at them and remember the books and what they learned.
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