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Portfolio Summary 2017-2018

This year Elijah's main focus again was on Linguistics. He spent the vast majority of the year immersed in the world of languages, writing systems, and phonetics. Language Arts: Elijah reads online articles on a regular basis for information and pleasure. He enjoys writing emails, grocery lists, and determining phonologies and pronominal morphologies using Lexilogos.com. He is adept at finding information via online wikis, Internet and Google searches, encyclopedias, and the library catalogue. This year Elijah continue to focus on linguistics, constructed languages, writing systems, and foreign languages. He was mentored by both armchair and professional linguists via online conversations on the web forum Reddit.  E reading to his sibling. E reading to his sibling. E reviewing commas and "its" vs "it's" Mathematics: Elijah continued to practice and gain skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals,

Unschooling Log of Books & Materials Used & Attendance Statement 2017-18

Books Dictionary Thesaurus Story of Your Life (Ted Chiang; audiobook) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Manhunt: The 12-day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (James Swanson; audiobook) In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Arika Okrent; book) The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Coins 2017 Photograde: Official Photographic Grading Guide for United States Coins Reading various (toddler/picture) books to Hazel 50 Birds and Mammals of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania Game Commission Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels; book) Magazines LEGO Club Game Informer Muse Ask! NatGeo Kids Babel Web Series/YouTube Channels Tom Scott (educational travel) 8-bit Music Theory (music theory) PESfilms (award winning stop motion) Extra Credits (analysis of gaming) Extra History (world history) JJay Berthume (music composition) Wo