#citizenship test

[lifewithaview]

Kayvan Novak in What We Do in the Shadows (2019) Citizenship

S1E8

Nadja trains Jenna on how to take her first victim, and Nandor applies for American citizenship.

*It is revealed that Nandor was the ruler of a country which is currently part of modern day Iran. Kayvan Novak, who portrays Nandor is like his character of Persian descent, whilst born and raised in the UK.

[187days]

Day Ninety-Nine

The social-emotional development of ninth graders is seldom linear, and sometimes things happen that undo a lot of the progress, but today felt like a turning point in Global Studies- in all of the sections, in fact.

I say that because after I finished teaching about the start of the Rwandan Genocide, and had students read the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, I asked them to consider what our country had to consider at the time: the pros/cons of intervention. Students brought up the treaty, the impact honoring it or not would have on our reputation, the cost of intervention in lives and money, the potential to save lives and stop the genocide, the risk of escalating the conflict further, and so on. It was a serious conversation, and if someone wasn't treating it seriously- like, if they tried to make a joke comment- their peers shut them down.

That's new, and that's why it felt like a turning point.

And I felt like I could push the conversation further, so I asked them what they would have done if they'd been in charge of the US at the time. A few students in each section put their hands up- a brave thing to do in a weighty conversation like that- and shared a variety of viewpoints. I thanked them for doing so afterwards. Then I asked them what they thought the US actually did- I've written before that they're not familiar with this part of history at all, so they genuinely don't know the answer- and opinions were split.

Naturally, the block ended right after that, so I said they'd find out next week and left it as a cliffhanger. Keeps them exciting about coming to my class!

Also cool: there was a sub in for the para who's usually with one of my students, and she thought my lesson was awesome.

I didn't have an awesome APGOV lesson because students had to take the US Citizenship Test today. The results sure were awesome, though! So that's a graduation requirement out of the way, and it was the first time these students witnessed my lightning fast grading skills (unless they had me as a teacher in ninth grade, too), and that was fun. They had the remainder of the block to work on discussion questions for Federalist 10 and 51, am looking forward to hearing what they have to say on Monday!

For now, though? Time to enjoy my weekend. TGIF!

[citizenshiptests]

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Germany to approve new citizenship regulations

Germany is reforming its citizenship law, simplifying the procedure for obtaining German citizenship, Deutsche Welle reports.

German authorities are planning to simplify the procedure for obtaining dual citizenship and naturalisation for citizens of non-EU countries. This reform has been in preparation since the centre-left coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) came to power in autumn 2021.

Read more HERE

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Why Goats Can't Vote ...

I originally wrote this post in May 2016, nearly six months before the election in which Donald Trump would lose the popular vote, but manage to get enough votes in the right places to slide into office on the Electoral College vote.  And now … well, here we are again.  Although more than 7 years old, I think this post is just as relevant today as it was then. What if voters across the U.S.…

[batcavescolony]

I was talking to an idiot and I need validation.

[capesandshapes]

Finding out that my former friend who wrote clean regency is a Republican was somehow more shocking than finding out that another author who writes dark mafia romance based off of children's movies is a republican

I mean like, to be fair, dark mafia girl also runs a publishing house that's a literal pyramid scheme and writes the worst sex scenes I've ever seen in my life but like

The other one I was literally on my knees like no baby girl, please... What would Lord farthing say? We were supposed to talk about Victorian children plucking rabbits together baby, not talk about how you think we should throw the children of immigrants out of the country.

She was like "we used to mail children...maybe we could do that now" LIKE GREAT HISTORICAL FACT BUT WHAT THE FUCK

[albonium]

wild to me that it takes hours for people in the usa to vote. it's never taken me more than 10 minutes and that's including the inevitable chit chat with the people there because they're either my parents' neighbours or the parents of people i went to school with.

[187days]

Day One Hundred Seventy-One

Sometimes I have to ask dumb questions about being a department head. We're hiring for one position, and I was reading applicants' resumes, and deciding which ones to interview... and then I had to ask The Principal if I was supposed to call the applicants, or if he/his secretary would do it.

His secretary did it.

So, y'know, now I know. I like to think I won't have more dumb questions in the future- like, I have to know everything by now, right?- buuuuut who knows.

In more epic news, every senior has passed the US citizenship test (which, for those of you who haven't been following along at home, is a graduation requirement in NH now) as of this morning, yay! The Principal thanked my whole department for the work we did to make it happen, and I added my own thanks to my colleagues for proctoring and grading.

As for my teaching day, it was pretty chill during Global Studies. I had to give a couple students a talking-to for trying to disrupt the class next door by knocking on the walls and other silly stuff like that, but that was it. They worked hard on the current issues assignments they've been working on, I helped them out as needed, things were good.

Mr. W came to APGOV to do karate. First, he started by talking about being an elected library trustee (local government!), but, at one point, when he was mid-sentence, I threw a punch at him and we started sparring. Then we actually changed into our karate uniforms and continued to demonstrate martial arts stuff for the rest of the block. That was me fulfilling a promise to students that I'd made months ago. See, back when they were freshmen, there were still a lot of pandemic restrictions in place- including no mixing cohorts- so Mr. W and I couldn't do the demo we'd done every other year, and they wanted us to do it this year.

I refuse them very little, so I made it happen.

Since they're graduating soon, we did our best to impart some karate wisdom that doubles as life wisdom (structure is important, training is about making progress, relax and breathe, let go of the things that don't actually make you a better person, etc, etc...) and we had a ton of fun.

At practice, the sprinters did a couple times 40m dashes, practiced some blocks, and went home. We're tapering down, we know they're ready!

[coutelier]

Should probably have posted a link to the site I was doing the test on, so here. Should warn you though there's loads of ads on that site, which you can see in the video. But if you haven't seen the video, maybe you want to see if you can do better than me, in which case I will further that I am pretty damn hot on US history - probably better than I am at British or Irish (but then there is less US history, so...). Maybe we'll find out in the future.

World Citizen - USA!

Supposedly, most Americans can’t ace this US citizenship exam. So how will I, a Not-American, do?

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

It's one of those days where it's extremely hard to keep politics off this blog, but just know that I'm dgfkngbdkjg *screams in 2016*

[the-tenth-arcanum]

I calculated my days of absence from the UK and if I were to submit my citizenship application next may I would exceed the limit due to having fucked off to Italy for 5 months during the covid lockdowns in 2020. which means I could apply in january 2026, provided I only spend 12 weeks out of the UK between now and then. which sounds like a lot but it isn't to me because I work from home and spending a few weeks with my family every now and then has been the only thing keeping me sane