Let's talk about a Book of Centuries

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  • July 17, 2016 at 1:20 pm
    MamaWebb
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    Hello!

    I am trying to decide what to do in regards to a BOC or a timeline.

    The kids I am wondering about using it with are entering 6th and 9th grade.

    We will be using BiblioPlan year 1: Ancients, where we can use their given timeline, which is essentially just a cut and paste project.  My kids would probably like that, and I will most likely use it for my 9 and almost 8 year old boys.  But I was thinking that my older daughter and son should do a BOC for all the thinking and mental exercising that such an activity offers.  So I am a bit uncertain of what direction to head.  Here’s the link to biblioplan so you can see it if you’re not familiar:   http://www.biblioplan.net/p/welcome-to-biblioplan.html

    I love the elegant look of Laurie Bestvater’s BOC, but I simply cannot afford those.  I really like the one offered here at SCM, but even that is a bit on the pricey side for me.

    I found these notebooks at amazon, and they seem like they might offer what I’m looking for, but the reviews say they are a little cheaply made.  I like that they have the lines on one side with blank facing pages, which seems exactly right…but nearly impossible to find.  This was literally the only one I could find with blank/lines pages on Amazon.

    I did find this interesting Mead composition book on Amazon, which has single lines across the bottom and a blank top of the page.  I wonder if I could make that work, somehow?  If you were to use the Mead composition book, how would you set it up?

    I do not want something that I print out and put in a binder bc the punched holes would tear and I would be forever chasing my kids to put their pages in, etc.  So I’m thinking that something bound might be better.  I’d even prefer, if possible, to avoid coil-binding. But if it comes down to it, and and I have to print/create/download my own, I will probably laminate the covers and take it to staples for a coil binding, but it’s not my favorite idea.

    Who’s got some idea or success stories?

    TIA,

    Amy

     

    July 17, 2016 at 2:33 pm
    HollyS
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    I can’t give you a success story, since this is my plan for next year, but I picked up some Writing Journals from Miller Pad and Paper.  For my older ones, I picked up ones that are lined on one page and blank on the next.  My plan is to have writing on one side and a picture on the other.  So these will be more of a timeline notebook, than a traditional BOC.

    Here is another option to use a regular Composition NB: http://www.charlottemasonhelp.com/2009/07/how-and-when-to-begin-book-of-centuries.html

    July 17, 2016 at 3:50 pm
    Melanie32
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    Hi Amy! My daughter really wanted a pretty BOC and I didn’t want to shell out too much money so I let her pick out a nice looking journal at Barnes and Noble. I gave each century a two page spread and labeled them. Once a week, my daughter enters the new events and people that she has learned about into their appropriate century and adds birth dates or event dates. That’s it for us-sweet and simple!

    Some kids want to draw in theirs I would probably use a sketch pad if that were the case so that there weren’t lines to interfere with the drawings.

     

    July 17, 2016 at 6:19 pm
    sarah2106
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    I was not sure about spending the money on a SCM BOC but after really thinking about it I decided to go for it. Currently we are doing a family book and starting in 6th grade my oldest will start her own.

    My thought it that it will become a keepsake, a reference of history that they can (hopefully) continue to add to into adulthood. I have so enjoyed making our family one and have more than once flipped to a time period and quickly answered a question the kids had.

    I really like that the SCM one is clean and simple. It seems like something they could continue to reference vs one that they might draw in that later on, down the road, they might look back and not enjoy the “extras”. Some really enjoying drawing and adding extras to their BOC though so I think it just depends on what your over all goal is for your students BOC to be used for. That might help direct you to the best style for your student.

    July 17, 2016 at 6:36 pm
    Threekidsmom
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    Here’s an idea of how to use sketch books to make one-http://www.donnayoung.org/history/timeline-cw.htm

    July 17, 2016 at 9:44 pm
    MamaWebb
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    Threekidsmom, LOL!  I have that very page bookmarked on my computer bc I thought it was great!  But I am thinking that I don’t exactly want to do a “timeline in a book,” but rather, a true BOC  where they have to really really think to distill down what they want to enter, combined with maybe sketching artifacts.  Perhaps even creating a century at a glance with symbols, maybe a chart of noteworthy things, maybe a map or two.  But I do really love the DY one…If Biblioplan didn’t already come with something similar, I’d use the DY idea!

    I’m still trying to figure out how I might use the Mead composition book…..how i might lay it out….

     

     

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