Georgia standards alignment

• SSCG18

  Partially covered

  Examine how American ideals of freedom and democracy protect against the threats of totalitarian ideology.

  Covered by

  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 9 · What winning cost: shock therapy

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: one totalitarian system is worked in real depth — a communist workers' state and the union that unmade it (Poland, Solidarność through the 1989 negotiated exit), which covers the growth-and-decline element (e). The general democracy-versus-totalitarianism comparison and fascism are not taught.

• SSWH20

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate an understanding of the global social, economic, and political impact of the Cold War and decolonization from 1945 to 1989.

  Covered by

  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 9 · What winning cost: shock therapy

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (d) opposition movements to existing political systems is worked in real depth for one case — Poland's Solidarność, martial law, and the 1989 negotiated exit. The arms race, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Asian/African decolonization are not taught.

• SSWH21

  Partially covered

  Examine change and continuity in the world since the 1960s.

  Covered by

  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 9 · What winning cost: shock therapy
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (b) the breakup of the Soviet bloc is taught through Poland's negotiated exit from communism and its shock-therapy price. The Khrushchev/Gorbachev reforms, the wider Soviet breakup, and the terrorism and women-leaders elements are not taught.

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 Georgia mathematics standard.
• Science — Georgia's own GSE Science (NOT NGSS), deferred not denied. We verified that Georgia's science standards are the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Science — Georgia's own, NOT the NGSS. We did not fetch and transcribe them this pass, and our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Georgia carries no science claim here. The climate-and-resources content the NGSS states pick up through HS-ESS3-1 maps instead to Georgia social studies (World Geography SSWG1 and SSWG5, World History SSWH16). Georgia's high-school Environmental Science standards are the candidate home for a future pass.
• American Government/Civics standards checked and rejected. SSCG2 (the political-philosophy genealogy — the Magna Carta through Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu, as named texts), SSCG9 (the impeachment and removal process), and SSCG11 (the federal bureaucracy, its departments and agencies, and the Cabinet) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• Economics — the personal-finance course, macroeconomics, and the market-structure standards. The personal-finance standards (SSEPF1-10), macroeconomics (SSEMA1-3 — GDP, the Federal Reserve, fiscal policy), the microeconomic circular-flow and market-structure standards (SSEMI1, SSEMI3), the scarcity and rational-decision standards (SSEF1, SSEF2, SSEF4), and the exchange-rate standard (SSEIN2) were checked and are not taught. We claim the international-trade and economic-systems standards where the lessons land.
• World and U.S. history beyond the mapped standards. Georgia's SSWH and SSUSH are full surveys. This catalog teaches world and U.S. history in specific places — exploration and the Columbian Exchange, imperialism and the Opium Wars, the Haitian Revolution, the Gilded Age unions, the Great Migration, Prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance, the Wagner Act, and Poland's exit from communism — not as surveys, so the remaining ancient/medieval, world-war, and U.S.-survey standards are not claimed.
• The direct-democracy tools SSCG17e names — Georgia does not have the initiative. Georgia's own SSCG17e lists "the initiative, referendum, and recall" as limitations citizens may exercise on state and local government. But Georgia has NO statewide citizen initiative: the flagship teaches that absence and the legislative-referral path (a two-thirds vote of each house, then voter ratification) honestly, rather than describing a tool Georgia does not provide. So the standard is claimed (partial) for what Georgia's civics actually is, not padded to look like a direct-democracy state.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Georgia's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Georgia claims here.