My 7th Grade Progress Report
Hi my name is Dylan Edwards and I am 13 years old. This year I have worked on a lot of fun projects, read great books, learned a lot of great skills, achieved goals and set future goals.
This year I read The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R Tolkien, made a text based dragon game and have been working on making a youtube channel. I really enjoyed reading The Lord of the Rings because it uses the language of the 70s or earlier so it's a challenge to read. It's about a band of adventurers who have set out to destroy a super powerful ring that, in the wrong hands, could be disastrous to the world. The dragon text based game that I have made is about hatching dragons and seeing how many you can collect. My goals for this game are: I hope to make it have an area where you go on an adventure with your dragons, to collect other dragon eggs to fill up your Dracopedia. I hope to make my youtube a gaming channel about Valorant. I want to work on thumbnails, getting a good profile picture and also making good content.
My favorite work this year has definitely got to be my Dungeons and Dragons character, making a dragon book, and getting to day 88 in the 100 Days of Code Replit course. I had a really big accomplishment: getting to day 88 on Replits coding course. I know that 88 may not seem like an accomplishment, but people quit before day 10. My D&D character is a Vulpin rogue, which means that he is a fox-person who slinks in the shadows and backstabs enemies. He is about 3 feet tall and has leather armor. His subclass is a swashbuckler, which means that he excels in dueling. My other favorite work was my dragon booklet that I made for D&D. It contains all the dragons that we have to kill in order to level up. The campaign that I'm in is about killing dragons. The DM (dungeon master) made it so that every time that we have killed a dragon, we level up.
Next year I want to challenge myself with harder school work and work on getting closer to early Financial Independence so that I can have some passive income. Financial independence is where you make a lot of money so that you don't have to work for the rest of your life. Basically you work, buy almost nothing, save a lot of money so that you can invest it to get a good passive income. I also want to work on harder math. I want to try calculus or maybe I could do advanced algebra. I really want to test myself on my math.
In conclusion, I've had a really fun year. I think that I have had a great year and learned a lot. I hope that next year I can have just as much fun learning fun things and doing more fun projects!
7th grade Progress Report (2023-2024)
Dylan completed the curriculum below and the standardized test. We focused on time management and autonomy in basic subjects and online classes. Attached is his report and work samples. He is ready for our summer review workbooks and Fall curriculum.
He is currently reading The Art of Learning and Lord of The Rings; coding a Jippity text based game; creating Dungeons & Dragons characters; studying early financial independence; making videos for a youtube channel; and improving his rank in the online game, Valorant. He is good at reading, creative writing, applying math to real life, coding, and engineering gadgets (egg/money releaser, 3D printer designs). His goals are to reach early financial independence, create digital art with Blender, design text based games using Jippity, and continue his youtube channel. He wants his channel to promote community beautification, nature awareness, and help animal nonprofits. In 8th grade he wants to continue making videos, learn calculus, kill 5 dragons with his D&D character, work on neat penmanship, improve his game rank, and increase the percent correct on his math.
He has excellent academic ability, high achievement, takes responsibility, is independent, a natural leader, participates, and works well with others. He is a critical thinker, curious, creative, motivated, and determined. He is recognized by Recess teachers for his creative contributions to their program. They are honored to work with him to develop his curiosity and ambitious ideas. When learning something of interest he takes initiative with great confidence, effort, and attitude towards school. Reading, mental math, and critical thinking are his strengths. Areas to improve are self regulating his focus, organization, and time management skills to get better at his study habits while not being hard on himself.
Lang & Lit - Read chapter and series books, read aloud, audiobooks, podcasts; Recess Minecraft and Lore for role play, story building and writing; Recess and Outschool Dungeon and Dragon classes for storytelling, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, imagination, and teamwork.
Math - Saxon grade level math workbook and skills practice showing neat and organized work.
Writing - Brave Writer Greek Myth, Passion Project, Dream Big, Go Wild, and History class. Recess classes: Creative Genesis creative writing Youtube coaching and Twinery for creating stories and text based games; copywork, creative projects, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, neat penmanship, paragraphs, stories, research, typing, and Painless Vocab Book.
History/Science - Mystery Science, documentaries, monthly magazines, zoology and 7th grade science workbooks; Recess classes: Kerbal Space, Tech and Rockets, Mindustry, and Poly bridge for engineering, Geoguessr for geography; Outschool aviation science and flight school; Dan Sheeks First to A Million FI; Tuttle Twins Economics and American History books.
Specials - Colab team challenges, Apollo entrepreneur business, and Recess cohorts for collaboration, communication, and problem solving; Recess video editing, private mentor, Jippity and AI coding classes; Outschool game design and drawing classes; Python Replit challenge; ocean sports, swim team, gymnastics, and workouts.