West Virginia standards alignment

• SS.C.1

  Covered

  Strive to become vigilant, informed citizens who actively participate in the preservation and improvement of American government through community service and service-learning (e.g., individual service projects, patriotic events, mock trials, group initiatives, community volunteerism).

  Covered by

  • West Virginia Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide

  • · West Virginia Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, local government, and getting involved
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)

  Note: Participatory citizenship is taught as practice, West Virginia edition: registering and voting (early and absentee, with ID, via county clerks — confirm at sos.wv.gov), showing up at county commissions, city and town councils, and county boards of education, contacting legislators during the short 60-day session, and helping a campaign lawfully.

• SS.C.10

  Covered

  Analyze the protection of liberties in the Bill of Rights and their expansion through judicial review and the gradual incorporation of those rights by the Fourteenth Amendment.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 2-5 · speech, religion, press, assembly, including at school and online
  • · Know Your Rights, Lessons 6-8 · the 4th Amendment: searches, stops, and your digital life
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 1 · Who is a U.S. citizen? Birthright and the 14th Amendment
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 3 · Becoming a citizen: naturalization eligibility

  Note: Every element the standard names is taught: the Bill of Rights' protections, judicial review (Marbury v. Madison), the landmark cases that expand rights over time, and the Fourteenth Amendment (whose citizenship and incorporation role is taught in the citizenship course).

• SS.C.15

  Partially covered

  Develop an understanding of the American legal system through examining existing ordinances, statutes and Federal Acts, exploring the differences between criminal and civil law and determining the legal obligations and liabilities of American citizenship.

  Covered by

  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the criminal-versus-civil distinction and a citizen's legal obligations are taught through jury service (the citizen's side of the court system) and the responsibilities of citizenship. The systematic survey of ordinances, statutes, and Federal Acts is not the course's focus.

• SS.C.22

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast the values, ideals and principles that are the foundation of a democratic republic and the role citizens play in a constitutional democracy, to the theories and practices of non-democratic governments (e.g. socialism found in communism and nationalism found in fascism).

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the values and principles of a democratic republic and the citizen's role in it are taught in depth. The systematic comparison to non-democratic systems (communism, fascism) that the standard also requires is not part of this catalog.

What we don't claim

A standards page is only worth reading if the omissions are honest too. We looked at these and left them out:

• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness mathematics standard.
• Science — considered, deferred, not claimed this pass. West Virginia's science standards (WVBE Policy 2520.3C, adopted 2021) are NGSS-derived, so the catalog's one honest science idea — resource availability and climate shaping human activity (the substance of NGSS HS-ESS3-1) — would in principle map to a West Virginia science code. But the West Virginia-hosted and regulatory copies we could retrieve are image-only scans with no extractable, byte-faithful text, and our rule is verbatim-or-nothing. We will not alias the shared NGSS file to a West Virginia code we could not confirm against West Virginia's own printed wording, nor transcribe from a scan we cannot read exactly. Science is deferred until that verbatim text is in hand.
• West Virginia's own state structure is taught more fully than any one Civics standard names. West Virginia Civics teaches the state's singular origin (the only state formed by breaking away from another, its pro-Union western counties splitting from Virginia in 1863) and its Constitution of 1872, the plural executive with no Lieutenant Governor (the Senate President succeeds the Governor) and its weak veto, the 100-Delegate/34-Senator part-time Legislature and its 60-day session, the 2015 switch to nonpartisan judicial elections and the 2022 Intermediate Court of Appeals, the absence of any statewide citizen initiative, and the 55 counties — all from West Virginia's own sources. SS.C.20 (state and local government) and SS.C.13 (state judicial systems) host most of it, but the WVCCRS Civics standards are U.S.-system concept statements, not a West-Virginia-government checklist, so West Virginia's origin story, its plural executive, and its recent court changes have no code of their own.
• The Civics standards on parties, interest groups, and world affairs. Standards the catalog's civics does not genuinely teach are not claimed: SS.C.4 (collaboratively build a model to defend the American Republic — a classroom performance task), SS.C.16 (the evolution and function of the two-party system), SS.C.18 (the impact of special interest groups on public policy), and SS.C.21 (cooperation, competition, and conflict among nations — the United Nations, international treaties, terrorism). The catalog's civics is domestic structure, rights, and participation, so these are left unclaimed.
• Personal Finance (SS.C.30-39) — nothing. West Virginia's Civics course carries a full Personal Finance strand (postsecondary cost, income and budgeting, workforce preparedness, bankruptcy, taxes, consumer debt, banking, and investing/insurance). This catalog teaches none of it, so it meets none of these standards.
• Geography (SS.C.40-43) — checked, thin overlap, not claimed. The Civics course's Geography strand (census and demographic analysis, geopolitical research, sustainable development, and geographic information systems) is human-environment and spatial geography. The catalog's growing-belts, resource-map, and climate content is geographic in flavor, but its overlap with these specific standards is adjacency-level at best; where that content maps squarely — how trade and commodities distribute wealth and shape economies — it is claimed under the Economics standards instead, not padded into Geography.
• The remaining Economics standards (SS.C.23, 24, 27, 28, 29). Beyond SS.C.25 (supply and demand affecting price) and SS.C.26 (the role of government in a free market), the Economics strand's other standards — opportunity cost and scarcity, allocating the factors of production, the household/business/government circular flow, local-to-global business climate, and the historical evolution of currency — are not the substance of this catalog's commodity history, so they are left unclaimed rather than stretched.
• The ELA grades 9, 10, and 12 standards, and the grade-11 standards outside the reading/writing/research claims above. West Virginia's ELA standards run across four grade bands (ELA.9, ELA.10, ELA.11, ELA.12). We claim only the grade-11 informational-reading, argument-writing, and research standards the catalog's media-literacy and source-evaluation teaching genuinely meets. The literature strands, the language and speaking/listening strands, and the near-identical standards in the other grade bands are not separately claimed, to avoid mapping the same teaching against four grades' worth of duplicate codes.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. West Virginia's closest frameworks for these (its Technology and Computer Science standards, WVBE Policy 2520.14, and its world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no West Virginia claims this pass.