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Designed for high school. Below is every Washingtonstandard 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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- Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
- Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
- 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.
Washington · English/Language Arts
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy
Grades 11-12 · Common Core State Standards Initiative · retrieved 2026-07-13
Washington formally adopted the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (and mathematics) in July 2011 (State Superintendent Randy Dorn). Washington distributes them as the Washington State K-12 Learning Standards for English Language Arts but retains the Common Core codes and text, so the literacy-in-history/social-studies (RH) and writing-in-history (WHST) strands this catalog touches are adopted verbatim. Note: OSPI is running a Learning Standards Review with a draft “WA ELA 2026” in progress; as of this writing the 2011 Common Core adoption remains the operative standard — confirm current status at ospi.k12.wa.us. We claim no mathematics standards.
Read the source document →CCSS.ELA-Literacy.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.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.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.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.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.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.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 Common Core mathematics standard Washington adopted.
- Science — almost nothing. There is no laboratory work, no investigation and no scientific modelling here. Washington adopted the NGSS verbatim (as the WSSLS), and we claim a single NGSS performance expectation, partially, explaining exactly why on the entry itself. It is not a science course and we will not sell it as one.
- Tribal governments and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum. Washington's social studies standards repeatedly reference tribal constitutions, tribal sovereignty, and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum (e.g., C2.11-12.2 names tribal constitutions; the standards footnote tribal connections throughout). The catalog does not teach tribal government, so we claim only the United-States and Washington-state portions of those standards and mark C2.11-12.2 partial for exactly this reason.
- The flagship's election and tax specifics have no dedicated Washington code. Washington Civics teaches the all-mail (vote-by-mail) system and the top-two primary — the state's most distinctive civics content — plus the contested no-personal-income-tax tradition (the uniformity clause; the 2021 capital-gains tax upheld in 2023). Washington's high-school Civics standards contain no discrete election-administration or tax-policy standard, so this election content is taught but carries no Washington claim, and the tax content is reached only through the general C2 civics standards. The specifics have no code — the gap is in the standards, not the course.
- Prohibition, the War on Drugs as domestic policy, and mass incarceration. The catalog teaches all three. Washington's 2019 social studies standards are analytical and thematic (“current events rooted in past events,” “individuals and movements”) rather than event-naming, so — unlike Washington, D.C. — there is no Washington standard that names Prohibition or mass incarceration to cite. We claim the War on Drugs' foreign-policy arm only through the broad H4.11-12.3, and mark it partial.
- The wider catalog — health, PE, AI-literacy, and languages. Washington's relevant frameworks for these (Health and Physical Education; Computer Science; World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Washington claims this pass.
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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
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- 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 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
- Living on the Water
- Mexico: The Protection Contract, and the Trade Deal That Came for It
- 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
- Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State
- 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
- Sweden & Denmark: The Wage Floor That Isn't a Law
- Telling the River
- The Delta, and the Way North
- The Engineered River: Locks, Dams and Barges
- The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
- 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 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 Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
- US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
- Washington Civics: How Your State Government Works
- 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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