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Designed for high school. Below is every Illinoisstandard 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 Illinois'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.

Illinois · Social Studies

Illinois Learning Standards for Social Science — Civics, High School (SS.CV)

Illinois Learning Standards for Social Science, Grades 9-12 (2017) · Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) · retrieved 2026-07-18

Illinois's high-school Civics strand states disciplinary concepts, not course benchmarks — no standard names a state's structure. The Illinois Civics flagship (written from Illinois's own sources) therefore maps onto the institution and participation standards (SS.CV.1, SS.CV.2, SS.CV.3), and the general U.S. civics ladder onto the constitutional-system standards (SS.CV.4, SS.CV.7, SS.CV.10). Illinois's own structure — the plural executive, the Cutback Amendment, home rule — has no code that names it; see notClaimed.

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  • SS.CV.10.9-12

    Covered
    Explain the role of compromise and deliberation in the legislative process.

    Covered by

    • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
    • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
    • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard

    Note: The federal bill-to-law process is taught end to end — committee filter, floor deliberation, conference reconciliation, veto and override, the compromise the standard names — with a companion lesson tracking a live bill through it.

  • SS.CV.8.9-12

    Partially covered
    Analyze how individuals use and challenge laws to address a variety of public issues.

    Covered by

    • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
    • · 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
    • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 2 · Freedom of speech: what's protected, and what isn't
    • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 5 · Speech and religion at school, and online
    • · Know Your Rights, Lesson 7 · Police stops, reasonable suspicion, and your privacy
    • · 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: How individuals use and challenge laws is taught by example — invoking rights through the landmark-case line, tracking a live bill, and the labor and civil-rights movements' use of law and protest — not as a general survey of every avenue.

  • SS.CV.9.9-12

    Partially covered
    Evaluate public policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes and related consequences.

    Covered by

    • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
    • · Ep 18 · Bolivia's Bet (Bolivia's legal coca model against U.S.-funded eradication)
    • · Ep 18 · The Balloon Effect
    • · Ep 17 · Where the Poppy Grows (Afghanistan and the Golden Crescent)
    • · Ep 16 · The Justice Gap
    • · Ep 17 · The Scott County Lesson
    • · Ep 17 · Treatment Versus Punishment

    What we do and don't cover: Taught through one worked domain — drug policy — evaluated for unintended consequences: the War on Drugs' foreign-policy and incarceration effects, and how a needle-exchange ban helped drive the Scott County HIV outbreak. Not a general public-policy-analysis unit.

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 Illinois Common Core (Illinois Learning Standards) mathematics standard.
  • Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Illinois adopted the NGSS verbatim (January 2014) as its science 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.
  • Financial Literacy (SS.EC.FL) — nothing. Illinois's Economics strand carries a six-standard Financial Literacy sub-strand (income strategies, budgeting, interest and inflation, credit, investing, insurance). This catalog teaches no personal finance, so it claims none of SS.EC.FL.1-6.
  • The Illinois Civics flagship's Illinois-specific structure has no Illinois code to cite. Illinois Civics teaches the 1970 Constitution, the plural executive (uniquely both a Comptroller and a Treasurer), the partisan-elected Supreme Court, the uniquely narrow Legislative-Article initiative and the 1980 Cutback Amendment, and one of the nation's strongest home-rule traditions — from Illinois's own official sources. But the 2017 Social Science Standards are DISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS: no standard names a state's structure, so these lessons map only onto the abstract institution and participation standards (SS.CV.1, SS.CV.2, SS.CV.3). The gap is in the standards, not the course.
  • Civics standards we checked and rejected. SS.CV.5 (civic dispositions and diverse perspectives as a named concept) and SS.CV.6 (political parties, the media, and public interest groups — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
  • The disciplinary standards we read and did not claim. Across History, Economics, and Geography we claim only the concept standards the catalog genuinely teaches. SS.H.2/4/5/6/11/12, SS.EC.2-4/6-8, and SS.G.1-5/7/9/10 were checked and not claimed — the change-and-continuity, market-mechanics, macroeconomic-indicator, mapping-tool, and culture standards are not this catalog's subject. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.

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