California Admissions Day

uscitizenpod: Love and Citizenship from the Heart of California: An US Citizenship Interview with Rene Smith ESL/Citizenship Instructor Madera Adult School

Teacher Jennifer does a practice US Citizenship interview with Teacher Rene (Madera Adult School), then Rene about her own experience about becoming a US citizen and preparing students to become US Citizens.



Today is California Admissions Day!

I have created and uploaded a simple .docx about the State of California. I included info about our local government officials for the students of Milpitas Adult School.  Edit the docx for your own officials.

• USCIS 100:20. Who is one of your state’s U.S. Senators now?*
• USCIS 100:23. Name your U.S. Representative.
• USCIS 100:43. Who is the Governor of your state now?
• USCIS 100:44. What is the capital of your state?*

Also check out the US Census: Stats for California

Teaching the NEW USCIS N400 Application for Naturalization

Teaching the NEW USCIS N-400 Application for Naturalization google slides

CATESOL 2024-09-06
Jennifer Gagliardi
OTAN SME
jgagliardi@scoe.net

Teaching U.S. Citizenship Prep 2024

bit.ly/uscit-padlet

The pdfs are fillable (to encourage digital literacy and support distance learning).   Additionally, I have made every effort to make the pdfs accessible to people of all abilities.  

Although the pdfs are secure, you can use this work by Jennifer Gagliardi under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

• 01 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• 02 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• 03 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024) (printing fixed)
• 04 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• 05 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• 06 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• 07 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• 08 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• 09 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)
• 10 Practice Citizenship Interview based on the USCIS Form N-400 (2024)

Local woman finishes 25-year journey to US citizenship

 KOB 4: Local woman finishes 25-year journey to US citizenship 

Imagine taking 25 years to complete one task. Ana Yadira Aparicio Calderon, who goes by Yayo, took more than two decades of tears, fear, and community support to complete her task of becoming a U.S. citizen. (read more)