Week 8: Final Review & Test Day Confidence
Final week: this warmup is the checklist you'll use the night before your interview and the morning of. Print it, check it off, and bring it in your folder.
Night-before-interview checklist
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- Eat a light breakfast and drink water — but not too much, waits can be long.
- Leave home early enough to arrive 30 minutes before your appointment.
- At security, take out your phone and metal items. Your folder stays with you.
- Check in at the front desk with your appointment notice. Sit and breathe until your name is called.
- When called, walk in confidently, greet the officer, and remember: you have prepared for this for 8 weeks.
N-400 Focus
- Memorize the numbers: 100 senators (6-year terms), 435 representatives (2-year), 9 justices, 27 amendments
- Memorize the dates: Constitution written 1787, Declaration signed July 4, 1776, women's vote 1920
Civics & History
N-400 Interview Prep
Final week. We review the questions students get wrong most often — the numbers (100 senators, 435 representatives, 27 amendments, 9 justices), the dates (1787, 1776, 1920), and the amendments (1st, 10th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 26th). Then we do one last full mock interview. You leave class knowing exactly what interview day will feel like.
N-400 checklist for this week
- Memorize the numbers: 100 senators (6-year terms), 435 representatives (2-year), 9 justices, 27 amendments
- Memorize the dates: Constitution written 1787, Declaration signed July 4, 1776, women's vote 1920
- Practice your address, phone number, and employer info out loud — the officer will ask
- Get a good night's sleep before the interview and arrive 15 minutes early
English Lesson
Vocabulary
- Amendment
- A change or addition to the Constitution
- Senator
- A member of the U.S. Senate
- Representative
- A member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Justice
- A judge on the Supreme Court
- Term
- The length of time an official serves
- Elect
- To choose someone by voting
- Political party
- A group of people with similar ideas about government
- Review
- To look at something again to remember it
Example sentences
- There are 100 U.S. Senators.
- The Constitution has 27 amendments.
- We elect a President every 4 years.
- The Supreme Court has 9 justices.
Read-aloud passage
You are almost ready. The United States has three branches of government, 100 senators, 435 representatives, and 9 Supreme Court justices. The Constitution has 27 amendments. We vote for President every 4 years in November. Take a deep breath — you have studied hard, and you are ready for interview day.
Reading & Writing Practice
Read aloud
- The United States has 50 states.
- The Constitution has 27 amendments.
- The President serves for four years.
Write the sentence
6 questions. Answer them and submit — you only need 4 correct once to move on, but you can retake as many times as you want. Every attempt is saved so you can track your growth.