South Carolina standards alignment

• USG.2.IN

  Covered

  Analyze how power and responsibility are distributed, shared, and limited in the American constitutional government.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy
  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?

  Note: The distribution, sharing, and limiting of power — separation of powers and checks and balances, federalism and the enumerated/implied/reserved/concurrent powers taxonomy, and the Bill of Rights as a limit on government — is taught by name.

• USG.2.IP

  Partially covered

  Synthesize why the rule of law has a central place in American society and the impact it has on the American political system.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The rule of law is taught through its working parts — the Constitution as the supreme rule, judicial review through Marbury v. Madison, and the constitutional limits on what government may do to rights. The single synthesized argument the standard asks for ('why the rule of law has a central place') is assembled across courses rather than delivered as one graded synthesis, so this is partial.

• USG.4.IN

  Partially covered

  Distinguish between various economic, personal, and political rights of citizens in the U.S., and how these rights can sometimes conflict with each other.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your 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
  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?

  What we do and don't cover: The personal and political rights the Constitution protects, and how those rights are limited and can conflict, are taught as applicable rules (Tinker, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., and the limits on speech). The 'economic rights' strand the standard also names is not a focus, so this is partial.

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 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready mathematics standard.
• English/Language Arts — South Carolina's OWN standards (after the Common Core exit): deferred. South Carolina withdrew from the Common Core in 2015 and adopted its own South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards for English Language Arts, under South Carolina-specific codes. The shared Common Core ELA mapping this catalog uses in Common Core states does NOT apply in South Carolina. The catalog's ELA-literacy strengths — evaluating an author's point of view and evidence, analyzing rhetoric, and sustained research with citation — would map to South Carolina's own reading and writing inquiry standards, but transcribing and verifying those verbatim is deferred this pass (verbatim-or-nothing) and published here rather than claimed unverified.
• Science — South Carolina's OWN standards (not the NGSS): deferred, not denied. South Carolina adopted its own South Carolina Academic Standards and Performance Indicators for Science (2021), NOT the Next Generation Science Standards, so the shared NGSS mapping this catalog uses in NGSS states does not apply in South Carolina. The catalog's climate/resource content would find an analog in South Carolina's Earth/environmental-science standards, but this pass mapped only the United States Government course; South Carolina's science standards are deferred (verbatim-or-nothing), not claimed unverified.
• South Carolina's own state structure is taught more fully than USG.2.CC captures. USG.2.CC ('how governments in South Carolina are organized and how they function') is the one indicator that names South Carolina's own government, and it is the flagship's home. But South Carolina's most distinctive facts — the General Assembly ELECTING the judges (shared only with Virginia), the 1895 weak-governor design, the unusually large plural executive of separately elected officials, the ABSENCE of a citizen initiative, and the distinctive re-ratification step for amendments — are all folded into that single indicator rather than each having a code of its own.
• The founding-philosophy and political-science Government indicators we checked and rejected. USG.1.ER (the philosophical influences on core political principles — Greek democracy, Roman republicanism, and the Enlightenment thinkers), USG.1.CC (the major debates and compromises underlying the formation and ratification of the Constitution — the Convention's bargains), USG.3.IN (how American political beliefs and ideological trends are formed by founding principles, core values, and changing demographics), USG.3.CC (the role of linkage institutions — media, interest groups, and political parties — in shaping the public agenda; our media literacy is consumer/source literacy, not political-media analysis), and USG.4.CC (contemporary equal-protection issues, social movements, and landmark civil-rights legislation) — the United States Government course and the general civics catalog do not genuinely teach these, or teach them too thinly to claim, so we do not claim them.
• South Carolina's other Social Studies courses — deferred. The grade-12 United States Government course is one of several in the 2019 Social Studies standards (which also include United States History, World History, Economics, and Geography courses). The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, and civil-rights history and its commodity economics WOULD map to the US/World History and Economics courses, as they do in other states, but we mapped the United States Government course this pass and defer the rest rather than cite text we did not transcribe this pass.
• The United States Government 'Deconstructed Skills' (the ER/IN/CC/IP skill framework). Standard 1's 'Deconstructed Skills' table defines the four cross-cutting skills (Establish Relationships, Interpret, Communicate and Conclude, Informed Participation) that the numbered indicators exercise. The catalog's source-literacy method — analyzing primary and secondary sources, and detecting bias in media and political cartoons — aligns well with the Interpret and Communicate-and-Conclude skill descriptors, but those are the course's skill framework, not coded content standards, so we cite the content indicators (USG.n.x) rather than the skill descriptors.