- Finish the WebQuest (all 9 Topics)
- Submit your research question here before you take the quiz tomorrow.
- Renard class submit your research question here today.
- Study for your Immigration Vocab Quiz (kahoot)
Journal 7: WebQuest Day 2
Topic 6 Why Citizenship
T6 Question: Aside from free public education and access to medical attention, what other benefits drive people to come to the U.S? Click here and record the benefit you would guess is most appealing to those from Europe? from Mexico?
Topic 7 Citizenship Through Naturalization
Naturalized Citizen: A person who became a citizen through a legal process-not by being born in the country of citizenship.
There are lots of requirements for immigrants who want to become citizens. Because immigrants aren't born in America, they are naturalized citizens. In the U.S., naturalized citizens generally have all the same rights as natural-born citizens. There's one big exception: they cannot become President or Vice President of the U.S.! Only immigrants who are eligible can apply to be citizens. In order to be eligible, they have to meet a list of requirements. Once those are met, it's time to fill out the application for naturalization.They get their fingerprints taken for a background check, go to an interview, take a test, and provide any other information the government asks for...
And then they wait for a decision.Click here to see the eligibility requirements for becoming a citizen.
T7 Questions:
A) How long do you have to have a green card before you can apply for citizenship?
B) Are you eligible for citizenship if you don't know any English at all? If you hope for the destruction of the United States? If you're 23 years old?
Topic 8 The Value of Citizenship
If you've always lived int he U.S., it might be hard to imagine what it feels like to be a person who just became a citizen. Maybe you've never stopped to think about what it means to be an American.Follow this link to find out how some immigrants felt about finally becoming an American.
T8 Question:
What are three reasons that new citizens are happy to become Americans.
Topic 9 The Oath of Allegiance
Part of becoming a naturalized citizen means taking an oath. What do America's newest citizens promise to do?
T9 Question:
Click here to read the Oath of Allegiance. In your own words, what does the oath ask naturalized citizens to agree to?
HW: Finish WebQuest & study for the quiz.
