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"Allegiance"

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lalami, Laila. Conditional Citizens. New York: Pantheon Books, 2020.

· Chapter 1, “Allegiance,” begins on page 3.

· The story begins on the day the author, Laila Lalami, became a U.S citizen.

· It was 2000 and Lalami had been in the United States for 8 years when she came over from Morocco as a foreign student.

· She worked for a tech start up and drove an SUV.

· Lalami’s citizenship ceremony was held at the Pomona Fairplex, the same place as the annual Los Angeles County Fair.

· Lalami’s husband accompanied her to the ceremony in the same suit he wore to their wedding.

· Lalami turned in her alien-registration card and received a small American flag.

· The ceremony opened with “The Star Spangled Banner.”

· When Lalami came to the United States to pursue a doctoral degree in linguistics.

· She planned...

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