Syllabus

Course objectives

Students will

1. Develop proficiency in the English language in areas of reading, speaking, listening, and writing.

2. Create and develop students’ career and academic pathways.

3. Understand all steps necessary to fulfill Naturalization requirements.

4. Respond verbally to all naturalization interview questions.

5. Respond correctly to answers on the civics exam at 94% competency.


Assignments

1. PresentationsOver the semester you will do several presentations. Most of these will be in a group, but you can choose to work with a partner or on your own. Besides your first group presentation, you will be able to choose your topic.

2. Vocabulary We will be doing a lot of work with vocabulary. Some work will be on Quizlet and some will be on Google quizzes. You can use Quizlet outside of class to practice on your own.

3. Practice Interviews and TestsWe will also work a lot on practice with the citizenship test and with interviewing.


Class Values

  • Kindness and care.

  • Concern for the well being of everyone in class.

  • Supporting each other with assignments and creating an place that is easy to learn in.

  • Flexibility.

  • Student choice.

  • Valuing everyone regardless of age, physical ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, language ability, race or ethnicity.



Policies

1. Attendance - Attendance will be taken daily and time in zoom class will count toward your testing hours. If you miss a class, hours toward testing can be made up by watching a video of class. Please contact me for make-up classes.

2. Goal Sheet and Citizenship Checklist

Students and teacher will fill out and continuously update one goal sheet and one citizenship checklist during semester.

3. CASAS

Students will take the CASAS Post-Assessment.

  1. Disrespect of anyone in class for any reason is unacceptable.


Certificate of Completion

Completion of all the classroom requirements including Goal sheet, attendance and participation requirements.