Alabama standards alignment

• USG.13

  Covered

  Evaluate constitutional provisions of the judicial branch of government of the United States, including checks by the judicial branch on other branches of government, limits on judicial power, and the process by which cases are argued before the United States Supreme Court.

  Covered by

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

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 2 · How a judge gets there: nomination and confirmation
  • · 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

  Note: The federal judiciary's structure and independence, the checks on it, how justices are nominated and confirmed, how a case reaches the Court, the impact of landmark cases on constitutional interpretation (Marbury and Tinker among them), and how precedent works are taught across The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, US Civics 101, and Know Your Rights.

• USG.14

  Covered

  Describe the role of citizens in American democracy, including the meaning, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship; due process and other rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States; and participation in the election process.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
  • Voting & Elections 101
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · 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
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · 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
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?

  Note: The meaning, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship (Citizenship & Naturalization Basics), due process and the constitutional rights and their limits (Know Your Rights), jury service (an entire course), and participation through registering and voting are all taught as practice.

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 Alabama mathematics standard (the 2019 Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics, Alabama's own, not Common Core).
• English Language Arts — deferred, not denied. Alabama writes its own ELA standards (the 2021 Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts, adopted after Alabama left Common Core). This catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, argument-writing, and source-evaluation teaching would map to Alabama ELA — but our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, and that document has not been retrieved and transcribed this pass, so we make no Alabama ELA claim yet.
• Science — deferred, not denied. Alabama is NOT an NGSS state. Alabama's science standards are the 2015 Alabama Course of Study: Science, built from the National Research Council Framework with Alabama's own codes — NOT the Next Generation Science Standards. We did not assume otherwise. That document has not been fetched and transcribed this pass, so we make no Alabama science claim; when it is, the two Earth-science claims used elsewhere (resources, hazards, and climate shaping human activity) would be the candidates.
• United States Government standards we checked and do NOT claim. USG.1 (historical and philosophical origins — the Magna Carta, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and comparing limited and unlimited governments), USG.8 (special-interest groups, PACs, and Buckley v. Valeo), USG.9 (the media's impact on the political and election process — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), and USG.10 (the role of political parties) are not genuinely taught by these courses, so we do not claim them.
• Economics standards we checked and do NOT claim. ECON.1 and ECON.2 (scarcity, opportunity cost, and rational decision making as named concepts), ECON.5 (standard of living and productivity), ECON.7 (the organization and role of business, firm types, and market structures), ECON.9 (GDP, CPI, inflation, and unemployment measurement), ECON.10 (the Federal Reserve and monetary policy), and ECON.11 (fiscal policy, deficits, and the national debt) are financial- and macro-economics content this catalog does not teach.
• Health and Physical Education — out of scope for Social Studies this pass. Alabama publishes its own Health Education and Physical Education courses of study. This catalog's dental-health, body-data, and sport-knowledge courses could map to them, but those documents were not fetched this pass; per fetch-or-don't-cite we make no Alabama health or PE claim yet.