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Designed for high school. Below is every Marylandstandard 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 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.
Maryland · English/Language Arts
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy
Grades 11-12 · Common Core State Standards Initiative · retrieved 2026-07-13
Maryland adopted the Common Core State Standards for English language arts as the Maryland College and Career Ready Standards (MCCRS). Maryland's document reproduces the CCSS text VERBATIM but prints the strands under the bare CCSS codes (RH.11-12.6, RH.11-12.8, …) without the “CCSS.ELA-Literacy” web namespace, so the codes here are aliased to Maryland's printed form. We compared the Reading in History/Social Studies grade 11-12 standards against Maryland's own June 2023 Disciplinary Literacy Framework and the wording is identical. We claim no mathematics standards.
Read the source document →RH.11-12.8
CoveredEvaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.
Covered by
- Living on the Water
- What the River Carries
- Cairo: Where Two Rivers Meet
- Sold Down the River
- The Delta, and the Way North
- The Ohio, and the Line
- The Wabash, and What a Watershed Is
- The Engineered River: Locks, Dams and Barges
- What an Expedition Is
- How to Research: Finding Out Whether It's True
- The Green Book: How to Read a Route
- Indiana Avenue: A District and What Replaced It
- The Gym and the Color Line
- Two Racetracks
- Mudsock: How a Rivalry Marks a Boundary
- The President's House
- Fort Harrison: The Federal Footprint
- Washington, DC: Where the Instrument Was Blessed
- Philadelphia: The University and the Block
- Seattle: The Modern Bookend
- Baltimore: The Whole Chain
- Pittsburgh: Where the Playbook Was Written
- How the Tools Traveled
- Exported: How Others Studied American Race Law
- What They Built: Black Business Districts
- Afrocentricity: How to Evaluate a Contested Paradigm
- Training the Colonizer: The Knowledge That Was Taken
- Africa Before Colonization: The Documented Record
- Asia Before European Colonization: The Center of Gravity
- Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: Cities, Calendars, and the People Who Are Still Here
- Pan-Africanism: The Idea, the Movement, the Reckoning
- Who Has the Power to Do This?
- The Local Layer
- The Middle Layer: States, Provinces, and Regions
- Forms of Government, Honestly
- How Countries Constitute Themselves
- Tribal Nations and Indigenous Governance
- Governments Without States
- How Power Changes Hands
- Capstone: Map Your Own Stack
- Monsters at the Edge of the Map
- Giants, Dragons, and the Bones They Came From
- Wrong for Good Reasons
- · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
- · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
- · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
- · 3 · The test: four questions before you draw an edge
- · 10 · The source: what Berman v. Parker authorised
- · 1 · The claim, and the two ways it gets abused
- · 6 · How to hold a contested claim: the Black Rice debate
- · 2 · The Olmec: heads, rubber, and a live debate
- · Afrocentricity: How to Evaluate a Contested Paradigm
- · 1 · A tooth in a Beijing apothecary
- · 9 · The whale that is an island
- · 10 · How they wrote it: the eyewitness who was not there
- · 1 · The phrase that is on almost no map
- · 8 · Geocentrism was good science
- · 11 · Wegener was right, and he was dismissed
- · 13 · They laughed at Galileo
- · 4 · Where the flat-earth story came from
Note: The BVC value-chain course teaches fallacy-spotting; the route series, the labor and precolonial courses, and Afrocentricity make testing a claim against its sources (corroborating, challenging, or downgrading it) the explicit method of the course. Monsters at the Edge of the Map adds the corroboration half directly: it teaches that repeated claims count only when their sources are independent, and drills tracing a claim back to its earliest form.
WHST.11-12.7
CoveredConduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- Telling the River
- Finding Your Way, and Losing It
- How to Research: Finding Out Whether It's True
- The Green Book: How to Read a Route
- Indiana Avenue: A District and What Replaced It
- The Gym and the Color Line
- Two Racetracks
- Mudsock: How a Rivalry Marks a Boundary
- The President's House
- Fort Harrison: The Federal Footprint
- Washington, DC: Where the Instrument Was Blessed
- Philadelphia: The University and the Block
- Seattle: The Modern Bookend
- Baltimore: The Whole Chain
- Pittsburgh: Where the Playbook Was Written
- How the Tools Traveled
- Exported: How Others Studied American Race Law
- The Schoolhouse Network
- Where We Rested
- What They Built: Black Business Districts
- Who Has the Power to Do This?
- The Local Layer
- The Middle Layer: States, Provinces, and Regions
- Financing Without Access
- How Countries Constitute Themselves
- Tribal Nations and Indigenous Governance
- Governments Without States
- How Power Changes Hands
- Governance: Who Actually Decides
- Capstone: Map Your Own Stack
- Writing the World
- · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources
- · 19 · Your assignment: find a listing, then find the address today
- · 20 · Your assignment: write one block
- · 21 · Your assignment: write one firm
- · 21 · Your assignment: test one connection of your own
- · 17 · Your assignment: one schoolhouse, and the budget line that raised it
- · 20 · Your assignment: write one property
- · 16 · Assignment: read one map's margin
- · 15 · Assignment: one discovery, three genres, with sources
- · 16 · Assignment: trace a headline back to the paper
- · 11 · Citation as a genre convention with a job
Note: The Coffee episode ships a graded assignment; the route series and the positive-track courses each close with a research capstone (find a listing, write one firm, test one connection) in which the student runs a self-directed inquiry and synthesizes multiple sources.
WHST.11-12.8
CoveredGather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- Telling the River
- Finding Your Way, and Losing It
- How to Research: Finding Out Whether It's True
- The Green Book: How to Read a Route
- Indiana Avenue: A District and What Replaced It
- The Gym and the Color Line
- Two Racetracks
- Mudsock: How a Rivalry Marks a Boundary
- The President's House
- Fort Harrison: The Federal Footprint
- Washington, DC: Where the Instrument Was Blessed
- Philadelphia: The University and the Block
- Seattle: The Modern Bookend
- Baltimore: The Whole Chain
- Pittsburgh: Where the Playbook Was Written
- How the Tools Traveled
- Exported: How Others Studied American Race Law
- The Schoolhouse Network
- Where We Rested
- What They Built: Black Business Districts
- Who Has the Power to Do This?
- The Local Layer
- The Middle Layer: States, Provinces, and Regions
- Financing Without Access
- How Countries Constitute Themselves
- Tribal Nations and Indigenous Governance
- Governments Without States
- How Power Changes Hands
- Governance: Who Actually Decides
- Capstone: Map Your Own Stack
- Writing the World
- · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, 3+ peer-reviewed sources and an APA bibliography
- · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option C, interview ethics: informed consent, right to review
- · 19 · Your assignment: find a listing, then find the address today
- · 20 · Your assignment: write one block
- · 21 · Your assignment: write one firm
- · 21 · Your assignment: test one connection of your own
- · 17 · Your assignment: one schoolhouse, and the budget line that raised it
- · 20 · Your assignment: write one property
- · 16 · Assignment: read one map's margin
- · 15 · Assignment: one discovery, three genres, with sources
- · 16 · Assignment: trace a headline back to the paper
- · 11 · Citation as a genre convention with a job
Note: The route and positive-track capstones require the student to locate a primary record, corroborate it across independent sources, weigh each source's limits, and write it up with citations: the whole of this standard.
RH.11-12.9
Partially coveredIntegrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
Covered by
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- What the River Carries
- Sold Down the River
- The Delta, and the Way North
- The Ohio, and the Line
- What an Expedition Is
- How to Research: Finding Out Whether It's True
- The Green Book: How to Read a Route
- Indiana Avenue: A District and What Replaced It
- The Gym and the Color Line
- Two Racetracks
- Mudsock: How a Rivalry Marks a Boundary
- The President's House
- Fort Harrison: The Federal Footprint
- Washington, DC: Where the Instrument Was Blessed
- Philadelphia: The University and the Block
- Seattle: The Modern Bookend
- Baltimore: The Whole Chain
- Pittsburgh: Where the Playbook Was Written
- How the Tools Traveled
- Exported: How Others Studied American Race Law
- The Schoolhouse Network
- Where We Rested
- What They Built: Black Business Districts
- Brazil: State-Chartered Unions, a Union-Made President, and the 2017 Rupture
- Chile: A Labor System Designed to Be Weak
- Germany: Workers on the Board
- India: When Most Workers Have No Employer
- South Africa: The Union That Helped End Apartheid, Then Joined the Government
- South Korea: Democracy, the Chaebol, and the Lawsuit as a Weapon
- Sweden & Denmark: The Wage Floor That Isn't a Law
- Africa Before Colonization: The Documented Record
- Asia Before European Colonization: The Center of Gravity
- Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: Cities, Calendars, and the People Who Are Still Here
- Pan-Africanism: The Idea, the Movement, the Reckoning
- Afrocentricity: How to Evaluate a Contested Paradigm
- Training the Colonizer: The Knowledge That Was Taken
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America (and the World)
- Clean: A Global History of Bathing and Soap
- District of Columbia Civics: How Your Government Works
- Who Has the Power to Do This?
- What a Business Entity Actually Is
- The Local Layer
- Financing Without Access
- The US Forms: Sole Prop to Corporation
- The Middle Layer: States, Provinces, and Regions
- Forms of Government, Honestly
- How Countries Constitute Themselves
- Cooperatives
- How Other Countries Form Businesses
- Tribal Nations and Indigenous Governance
- Governments Without States
- How Power Changes Hands
- Governance: Who Actually Decides
- Capstone: Map Your Own Stack
- Capstone: Choose a Form and Defend It
- Deep Time and the Dinosaur Renaissance
- · Ep 10 · The Oral History That Survived (recovering Nathan “Nearest” Green's erased role)
- · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story
- · 2 · How we know: reading a record the enslavers wrote
- · 2 · The center of gravity: the claim, its sources, and its caveats
- · 9 · Reading density: what a thick section and a thin one mean
- · 8 · The Lula record, stated as dated fact
- · Africa Before Colonization: The Documented Record
- · 12 · Brontosaurus: the animal that was, was not, and may be again
- · 15 · Bakker, warm blood, and an argument that was won in parts
- · 18 · Chicxulub: what confirmed it, and what is still argued
- · 19 · Claim and evidence, across two hundred years
What we do and don't cover: Full in the BVC Nathan Green lesson, where the documentary and oral records openly disagree, and full in Deep Time and the Dinosaur Renaissance, which makes discrepancy the organising exercise: Tschopp et al. 2015 taught as a proposal with later analyses on both sides, two disagreeing 2019 papers on Deccan tempo, and a 41-author review paired with the formal published comments disputing it. Partial across the catalog-wide claim: every one of those courses integrates cited primary and secondary sources into a coherent account (the standard's first clause), and the route, labor, and contested-scholarship courses also foreground where the sources disagree, but the narrative histories (bathing, hoodoo) integrate sources without making discrepancy-resolution a systematic exercise.
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 Maryland College and Career Ready Standards mathematics expectation.
- Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Maryland was an NGSS lead state and adopted the NGSS verbatim (2013) as the Maryland College and Career-Ready Standards for Science, assessed by the MISA, 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.
- Maryland's nation-strongest executive budget power has no code of its own. The Maryland flagship's headline fact is that the Governor holds what many call the strongest executive budget authority in the nation (the General Assembly can generally only cut, not add). The American Government framework has no indicator naming this Maryland-specific feature; it is claimed here only through GOV.3.3.a (comparing local, state, and national executives), which it fits squarely, rather than as a standard of its own.
- Maryland's referendum-without-initiative has no discrete indicator. Maryland's distinctive citizen tool is a petition to referendum (a veto of a passed law) with NO citizen initiative. The framework names “referendum” only inside the broad citizen-tools objectives (GOV.2.2.c and GOV.6.1.b, whose text is identical), not as a discrete standard; we claim it through GOV.2.5.a (how laws are made) and GOV.6.1.b, and publish the gap here.
- Standard 6.0 (Skills and Processes / the Inquiry Arc) is not separately coded. The catalog's source-literacy method — evaluating a source's authority, origin, context, and corroborative value, and constructing evidence-based arguments — is exactly Maryland's Standard 6.0 inquiry skills, assessed by the Evidence Based Argument Set (EBAS). But the framework prints those as bulleted skills woven through every unit, NOT as GOV.<unit>.<indicator> codes, so there is no code to cite (fetch-a-code-or-don't-cite). The same method is claimed under Maryland's Common Core RH.11-12.6/8/9 (evaluating authors' points of view, premises, and evidence), which ARE coded.
- The Economic, Domestic, and Foreign Policy indicators we checked and rejected. GOV.1.1 (comparing types of government worldwide) and GOV.1.2.a-c/e (English common law to the Enlightenment to the Declaration as named content); GOV.2.2 and GOV.2.3 (parties/interest-groups/lobbyists/PACs, reapportionment/redistricting/gerrymandering); GOV.3.4/3.5 (executive orders and crisis power, and the EPA/FDA/FTC/FCC/FAA regulatory agencies); GOV.4.3 (14th-Amendment due-process incorporation as named doctrine); GOV.5.2-5.4 (GDP/CPI, the business cycle, and fiscal/monetary policy); and GOV.6.2-6.5 and all of GOV.7 (regional policy, entitlements/public-health/education/technology policy, land-use/environmental policy, equity/civil-rights policy, and U.S. foreign policy and international organizations) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, or teach them too thinly to claim, so we do not claim them.
- Maryland's American History, World History, and Geography courses — deferred. The American Government course is one of Maryland's high-school social studies courses. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, and civil-rights history and its commodity geography WOULD map to Maryland's High School United States History, World History, and Geography frameworks, as they do in other states, but we mapped the American Government framework this pass and defer the rest (verbatim-or-nothing) rather than cite text we have not transcribed and verified.
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- Africa Before Colonization: The Documented Record
- Afrocentricity: How to Evaluate a Contested Paradigm
- Asia Before European Colonization: The Center of Gravity
- Baltimore: The Whole Chain
- Brazil: State-Chartered Unions, a Union-Made President, and the 2017 Rupture
- 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
- Cairo: Where Two Rivers Meet
- Capstone: Choose a Form and Defend It
- Capstone: Map Your Own Stack
- Chile: A Labor System Designed to Be Weak
- Clean: A Global History of Bathing and Soap
- Cooperatives
- Deep Time and the Dinosaur Renaissance
- District of Columbia Civics: How Your Government Works
- Exported: How Others Studied American Race Law
- Financing Without Access
- Finding Your Way, and Losing It
- Forms of Government, Honestly
- Fort Harrison: The Federal Footprint
- Germany: Workers on the Board
- Giants, Dragons, and the Bones They Came From
- Governance: Who Actually Decides
- Governments Without States
- How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
- How Countries Constitute Themselves
- How Other Countries Form Businesses
- How Power Changes Hands
- How the Tools Traveled
- How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
- How to Research: Finding Out Whether It's True
- How We Know What's Out There
- India: When Most Workers Have No Employer
- Indiana Avenue: A District and What Replaced It
- Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
- Living on the Water
- Maryland Civics: How Your State Government Works
- Monsters at the Edge of the Map
- Mudsock: How a Rivalry Marks a Boundary
- Pan-Africanism: The Idea, the Movement, the Reckoning
- Philadelphia: The University and the Block
- Pittsburgh: Where the Playbook Was Written
- Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: Cities, Calendars, and the People Who Are Still Here
- Seattle: The Modern Bookend
- Sold Down the River
- South Africa: The Union That Helped End Apartheid, Then Joined the Government
- South Korea: Democracy, the Chaebol, and the Lawsuit as a Weapon
- State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
- Sweden & Denmark: The Wage Floor That Isn't a Law
- Telling the River
- The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
- The Delta, and the Way North
- The Engineered River: Locks, Dams and Barges
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America (and the World)
- The Green Book: How to Read a Route
- The Gym and the Color Line
- The Local Layer
- The Middle Layer: States, Provinces, and Regions
- The Ohio, and the Line
- The President's House
- The River and the Watershed
- The Schoolhouse Network
- The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
- The US Forms: Sole Prop to Corporation
- The Wabash, and What a Watershed Is
- Training the Colonizer: The Knowledge That Was Taken
- Tribal Nations and Indigenous Governance
- Two Racetracks
- 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
- Washington, DC: Where the Instrument Was Blessed
- What a Business Entity Actually Is
- What an Expedition Is
- What the River Carries
- What They Built: Black Business Districts
- Where We Rested
- Who Has the Power to Do This?
- Writing the World
- Wrong for Good Reasons
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