Friday, March 09, 2007

Century Books

Paula asked what Century Books are. Here is an explanation of Century Books at Simply Charlotte Mason; there's also a free download. Basically, a century book is a timeline in book or notebook form. You can be as simple or as artistic as you like.

I also found an article on how to make timelines in book form, with some visuals.
Here's another one.
And here's another.
And here's some timelines in book form from the British Museum -- I think CM envisioned the century books using the museum as a supplemental -- the children would sketch artifacts and put them into the proper places in their century books.

Here's a simple template.
Donna Young has several timeline forms.
And ChaseNC has several more.

Sonlight sells a timeline book.... and figures.
There is a Catholic World History Timeline by Marcia O'Neil. Here are samples.
Tanglewood Curriculum has timeline forms in ebook form.

There is a thread on Real Learning about century books where my friend Chari posted her article about doing century books. Others posted links to views of their century books.

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