North Carolina standards alignment

• CL.C&G.4.5

  Covered

  Summarize the importance of both the right to due process of law and the individual rights established in the Bill of Rights in the American legal system.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)
  • · 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
  • · 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

  Note: The Bill of Rights as a document, what it protects, the landmark rights cases as rules a student can apply (including the Fourth Amendment and due process), and when government may constitutionally limit rights.

• CL.C&G.1.2

  Partially covered

  Critique the consistency with which federal policies, state policies, and Supreme Court decisions have upheld the founding principles.

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Supreme Court half is strong — how precedent expands rights, and the landmark cases as applicable rules — but a sustained critique of the consistency of federal and state POLICY is not taught.

• CL.C&G.2.1

  Partially covered

  Compare how national, state, and local governments maintain order, security, and protect individual rights.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • North Carolina Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches, and the Council of State
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 5 · What LOCAL government handles (and why it VARIES)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 7 · The governments you forget: special districts & boards
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government: 100 counties, limited home rule, no townships
  • · North Carolina Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in North Carolina
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: all three levels are taught — the federal branches, North Carolina's own state executive (the Council of State, a plural elected executive) and General Assembly, what local government handles and why it varies, and North Carolina's counties and municipalities — plus rights protection through the landmark cases. A single side-by-side comparison of how each level 'maintains order and security' is not the frame.

• CL.H.1.3

  Partially covered

  Interpret historical and current perspectives on the evolution of individual rights in America over time, including women, tribal, racial, religious, identity, and ability.

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · 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 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: the evolution of rights is taught through how precedent expands them and the landmark cases, plus the labor and civil-rights movements; not every named group is treated systematically.

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.