Poorness*

Today's lesson went really well. I kind of ran out of time, but that's a good thing because it shows you prepared more than enough material. We started by learning about Ellis Island, then the citizenship and naturalization process. Next I gave them a citizenship application to look at, there were questions like "have you ever been affliated with Nazis or Communists" "have you ever committed a crime against the government" and so on. We talked about how the application is asking them to lie pretty much. Who would really check off yes, because that would most likely mean you won't get citizenship. weird.

Next I gave them a set of the 100 most frequently asked questions for people trying to be citizens about US History and Government to see how many they could answer. We made a game out of it, you need to answer at least 75 correct to gain citizenship in the classroom. They really got into it, it was fun. Some people didn't know who the governor from NH, the senators from NH, or the vice president were. A couple people said the pilgrims came over on the Santa Maria. But overall I was pretty impressed by them, they got a lot of the hard ones right.


*right, "poorness", yesterday I asked my class why people came to America or why they left their home country. They had a bunch of answers on the board, but I was looking specifically for "to escape poverty." They weren't getting it, so I was like "well it's the opposite of one you already have up there 'wealth and oppurtunity'" one kid raised his hand and said, "to escape being poor" "well what is that called, being poor?" "poor ....... ness?" and then that was the running joke from the rest of the class. I told them that if it was a question on a test, poorness would be an acceptable response


and i electrocuted myself today ... fun.