Maine standards alignment

• Civics & Government 2

  Partially covered

  Students understand the constitutional and legal rights, the civic duties and responsibilities, and roles of citizens in a constitutional democracy and the role of citizens living under other forms of government in the world by: (F) Explaining the relationship between constitutional and legal rights, and civic duties and responsibilities in a constitutional democracy. (D) Comparing the rights, duties, and responsibilities of United States citizens with those of citizens from other nations. (F) Evaluating the relationship between the government and the individual as evident in the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and landmark court cases. (F) Evaluating how people influence government and work for the common good, including voting, writing to legislators, performing community service, and engaging in civil disobedience. (D) Analyzing the constitutional principles and the roles of the citizen and the government in major laws or cases.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • Voting & Elections 101
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • Maine Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · 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)
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · Maine Civics, Lesson 6 · How to take part where you live
  • · Maine Civics, Lesson 5 · Appointed judges, town meetings, and split electoral votes

  What we do and don't cover: Rights, civic duties, and how people influence government are taught end to end: the relationship between the government and the individual through the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the landmark court cases, and the standard's own examples of civic action — voting, writing to legislators, community service — practiced Maine's way (same-day registration and ranked-choice voting, open town meeting, the citizen initiative and people's veto). Partial because the (D) indicators also require comparison with citizens of other nations, and the catalog does not teach civil disobedience as such.

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 Maine Learning Results mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Maine adopted the NGSS in 2019 (LD 283) as its Science and Engineering standards, so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
• Maine's own state structure is taught more fully than any one Civics & Government indicator names. Maine Civics teaches the Constitution of 1820 and the split from Massachusetts, the Governor as the only statewide-elected official (with the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Treasurer chosen by the Legislature), Maine as the first state to adopt ranked-choice voting and the constitutional nuance that limits it, the citizen initiative and the people's veto, the appointed Supreme Judicial Court ('Law Court'), the open town meeting and 16 counties, the unorganized territory, and the split of presidential electoral votes by district — all from Maine's own sources. Civics & Government 1 (the American political system) and 2 (how people influence government) host most of it, but the Maine Learning Results performance expectations are concept statements, not a Maine-government checklist, so ranked-choice voting, the people's veto, and the Legislature's election of the constitutional officers have no code of their own.
• Civics & Government 3 (cultural diversity; Maine Native Americans) — considered, not the catalog's focus. Civics & Government 3 is about the political and civic aspects of cultural diversity — 'the political structures and civic responsibilities of the diverse historic and current cultures of Maine, including Maine Native Americans,' and of the United States and the world. The Maine flagship teaches Maine's political structures and a civic-action habit, but it does not teach the cultural-diversity and Maine Native American political history this standard centers, so we do not claim it. (The civic-action / community-service work it also names is claimed under Civics & Government 2, its honest home.)
• The comparison-to-other-nations indicators across Civics & Government. Several Civics & Government (D) indicators require comparing the American political system, and the rights and duties of U.S. citizens, with those of OTHER nations and other forms of government in the world. This catalog's civics is domestic structure, rights, and participation, so the comparative-government half of Civics & Government 1 and 2 is the reason each is claimed partial rather than full.
• The Economics and Geography strands — considered, deferred this pass. Maine's Social Studies Learning Results also carry Economics and Geography strands, and this catalog's commodity, trade, and resource-map content plausibly reaches parts of them. But we transcribe and verify one strand document at a time, and only the Civics & Government and History strands were fetched and confirmed verbatim this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Economics and Geography carry no Maine claims yet rather than being mapped from memory.
• The ELA strands and grade bands outside the Reading/Writing claims above. Maine's ELA Learning Results run across four strands (Language, Speaking & Listening, Reading, Writing) and all grade bands. We claim only the Grades 9-Diploma Reading standards on perspective/purpose, evaluating arguments and claims, and synthesizing sources, and the Writing inquiry standard — the reading, source-evaluation, and research work the catalog genuinely does. The Language and Speaking & Listening strands, the earlier grade bands, and the Reading/Writing standards outside those claims are not separately mapped.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Maine's closest frameworks for these (its Technology / computer-science and world-languages Learning Results) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Maine claims this pass.