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North Carolina standards alignment
Designed for high school. Below is every North Carolinastandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.
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- We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Learn.WitUS against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by North Carolina's education authority or by anyone else.
- Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
- Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
- We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.
North Carolina · Social Studies
North Carolina Standards for the Founding Principles of the United States of America and North Carolina: Civic Literacy
2021 · Approved February 4, 2021 · NCDPI State Course Code 4318 · North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) · retrieved 2026-07-18
North Carolina's graduation-required high-school civics course (legislated by N.C. Session Law 2019-82, House Bill 924). Standards use the CL.* prefix across a content-neutral Inquiry strand (I.*) and five disciplinary strands (Behavioral Sciences, Civics and Government, Economics, Geography, History). The course is overwhelmingly about the founding principles and the federal system, with North Carolina named explicitly in the judicial, constitutional, federalism, local-government, and elections objectives — where the North Carolina flagship course is mapped, as partial. Inquiry indicators are cited at the sub-indicator (bullet) level, because the indicator category stems are short.
Read the source document →CL.H.1.4
CoveredExplain the impact of social movements and reform efforts on governmental change, both current and in the past.
Covered by
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 4 · Two ideas about who a union is for: the Knights and the AFL
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 5 · Haymarket, 1886
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 6 · Homestead, Pullman, and the weapon that actually broke strikes
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 9 · 1935: the year organizing became a right (the Wagner Act)
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 10 · The hole in the law: who the Wagner Act left out
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 8 · The Triangle fire, 1911, and what it actually changed
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 6 · Homestead, Pullman (Eugene Debs and the socialist movement)
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
Note: Social movements driving governmental change is what this catalog does best: the labor movement from the Gilded Age through the Triangle fire to the Wagner Act, and the civil-rights politics the Great Migration created.
CL.H.1.5
CoveredExplain how the experiences and achievements of minorities and marginalized peoples have contributed to the protection of individual rights and “equality and justice for all” over time.
Covered by
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 6 · The Black press as engine: the Chicago Defender
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 7 · The Harlem Renaissance & the New Negro
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
- · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
- · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
- · Ep 11 · The Maroons
- · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
Note: Taught as agency, not victimhood: the Black press as an engine of change, Randolph to Memphis, the Black urban vote, and plantation resistance and the Maroons.
CL.C&G.3.2
Partially coveredCompare strategies used by individuals to address discrimination, segregation, disenfranchisement, reconcentration, and other discriminatory practices that have existed in the United States.
Covered by
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
- · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
- · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
- · Ep 11 · The Maroons
- · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
What we do and don't cover: Partial: strategies against discrimination and disenfranchisement are taught through specific movements — plantation resistance and the Maroons, Randolph to Memphis, the Black urban vote the Great Migration created — but not as a systematic comparison of strategies.
CL.C&G.4.4
Partially coveredAssess how effective the American system of government has been in ensuring freedom, equality, and justice for all.
Covered by
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 2 · The Jim Crow South: what people were fleeing
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 12 · The long shadow, and the return
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
What we do and don't cover: Partial: taught through cases where the system fell short and was pushed to change — Jim Crow and the Great Migration, the labor half of the civil-rights movement — rather than a general assessment of the system's effectiveness.
CL.C&G.4.6
Partially coveredCritique the extent to which women, indigenous, religious, racial, ability, and identity groups have had access to justice as established in the founding principles of government.
Covered by
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 2 · The Jim Crow South: what people were fleeing
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 12 · The long shadow, and the return
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
- · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
- · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
- · Ep 11 · The Maroons
- · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
What we do and don't cover: Partial: access to justice is taught through where it was denied and fought for — Jim Crow, the plantation economy, unions' own colour bar — not as a comprehensive audit across all the named groups. (Transcribed as printed, including the document's double space in 'extent to'.)
CL.B.1.3
Partially coveredExplain how the values and beliefs regarding freedom, equality, and justice have helped transform the American system of government.
Covered by
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
- · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
What we do and don't cover: Partial: taught through the civil-rights transformation — the labor half of the movement, the Black urban vote the Great Migration created, and rights expanded by precedent — rather than as a survey.
CL.B.1.4
Partially coveredExplain how individual values and societal norms contribute to institutional discrimination and the marginalization of minority groups living under the American system of government.
Covered by
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 2 · The Jim Crow South: what people were fleeing
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 12 · The long shadow, and the return
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
- · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
- · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
- · Ep 11 · The Maroons
- · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
What we do and don't cover: Partial: taught through specific institutions — Jim Crow, the plantation economy, and unions' own colour bar — rather than a general treatment of institutional discrimination.
CL.H.1.2
Partially coveredCompare competing narratives of the historical development of the United States and North Carolina in terms of how each depicts race, women, tribes, identity, ability, and religious groups.
Covered by
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story, Beckford (1790) against Equiano (1789) and Mary Prince (1831) on the same plantation world
- · Ep 3 · Two Ways of Seeing a Bean
- · Ep 5 · Two Ways of Knowing
- · Ep 18 · Whose Voice
- · The Great Migration · every lesson carries a primary-source pointer to its real archive
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival (the Philadelphia “500% growth” claim, checked against the raw census figures it fails)
What we do and don't cover: Partial: comparing competing narratives is the Whose Voice method (a planter's account read against Equiano and Mary Prince) and the Great Migration's primary-source pointers; narratives specific to North Carolina's development are not.
CL.H.1.6
Partially coveredExemplify ways individuals have demonstrated resistance and resilience to inequities, injustice, and discrimination within the American system of government over time.
Covered by
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
- · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
- · Ep 11 · The Maroons
- · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
- · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
- · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
What we do and don't cover: Partial: resilience and resistance are taught through plantation resistance and the Maroons, Randolph to Memphis, and the vote the Great Migration created; 'within the American system of government' frames some but not all of these.
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 North Carolina mathematics standard.
- North Carolina's ELA and Science standards — deferred, not denied. North Carolina writes its own 2017 English Language Arts SCOS (Common Core-derived, but with North Carolina's own text and numbering) and its own K-12 Science standards (North Carolina is NOT an NGSS state). Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite: NCDPI's own PDFs on files.nc.gov and dpi.nc.gov refused our tooling (HTTP 403) this pass, and we will not transcribe standard text from a non-authoritative third-party alignment document, so these courses carry no North Carolina claims yet. The BVC media-literacy, rhetoric, and research-project work that maps to them elsewhere is real; it is the North Carolina text we have not yet retrieved from an acceptable source.
- The flagship's most distinctive lesson — how a bill becomes a North Carolina law — has no home in these standards. North Carolina's Civic Literacy standards are thematic (founding principles, rights, the evolution of government); they contain NO lawmaking-process objective. So the North Carolina flagship's signature lesson — how a bill becomes a North Carolina law, including that the governor had no veto until 1997 (North Carolina was the last state to grant one) and that a veto is overridden by three-fifths, not two-thirds — has no North Carolina Civic Literacy standard to cite, and we do not stretch one to fit. The gap is in the standards, not the lesson.
- The Geography strand (CL.G.1.1–CL.G.1.3). The Civic Literacy Geography objectives are specific: how views on freedom and equality shape legislation on immigration, migration, and the environment (CL.G.1.1); the geopolitical and environmental factors affecting civic participation and voting by region (CL.G.1.2); and how the United States works with international governments on global environmental issues (CL.G.1.3). Our migration and climate content does not sit inside those policy frames, so we claim none of them.
- Comparative government and the political-process objectives we do not teach. CL.C&G.2.4 (comparing the U.S. federal government to various governments around the world) and CL.C&G.3.4 (comparing American citizenship to membership in other governments) ask for comparative-government work the catalog does not do. CL.C&G.3.5 (how the two-party system shaped the political landscape) and CL.C&G.3.6 (the relationship between the media and government) are likewise not taught — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis, the same gap flagged for Arizona's HS.C3.3.
- Inquiry indicators I.1.1 and I.1.2 (Compelling and Supporting Questions). The question-formulation indicators (identifying issues and framing compelling and supporting questions) describe a classroom inquiry process the courses prompt but do not run or assess, so we do not claim them; we claim the source-analysis, data-analysis, argument, and informed-action indicators the catalog genuinely exercises.
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- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
- How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
- Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
- North Carolina Civics: How Your State Government Works
- State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
- The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- The History of Unions: America and the World
- The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
- US Civics 101: How American Government Works
- US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
- US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
- Voting & Elections 101
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