Beautiful Feet vs HOD for high school

[mendaymom]

This may be a strange question, but I was hoping to get some advice from people who have used or are familiar with Beautiful Feet history. I am trying to decide the difference between BF and HOD. I know that HOD has incorporated more subjects into their guides, but I am primarily interested in the differences between their approaches to literature and history. This would be for high school aged kids.
Thank you
Lisa

[LynnH]

I have one of the older version of BF guides that I got free at some point. The approach is quite different actually. As you know BF only deals with history. For the most part their high school guide basically says "read this, then answer a few questions in writing or by discussion or mark a few places on the map and that's it." HOD includes so many other skills even if you look just at the history portion. There are weekly written narrations and oral narrations. There are different types of oral narrations so the dc learn how to do detail narrations, topic narrations, summary narrations and I believe in one of the later high school guides there will be opinion narrations. They also do things such as outlining and Socratic discussions that center around primary source documents. In the WH guide they have to read primary source documents and then come to conclusions as if there was a trial. I'm not sure if BF includes projects, but there are longer term projects in each high school guide that is written so far so dc learn how to plan out and complete on time a larger project. There are also multimedia resources included in HOD that add quite a bit to the studies.

If you compare outside of history then you have a program that is tied together nicely as far as a balance of work each day. Carrie has worked hard to make sure that the reading and the writing are balanced day to day. You also know that your dc are getting a college prep education and learning to write the type of essays they need in college as well as learning to do the type of thinking that is required. The approach to literature with written and oral narrations is also a big plus. In the WH guide students keep a literary journal where they ponder deeper questions and take the knowledge they have of literary terms and apply it. And the big thing for me is that Christ is the focus throughout the day. I know BF is from a Christian perspective also, but to have Christ integrated into so many subjects as HOD does seems pretty unique.