Delaware standards alignment

• Civics Standard Three (Citizenship), Grades 9-12

  Covered

  Students will understand that citizens are individually responsible for keeping themselves informed about public policy issues on the local, state, and federal levels; participating in the civic process; and upholding the laws of the land.

  Covered by

  • Delaware Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government (just three counties) and how to take part
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote

  Note: The benchmark's exact triad is the flagship's “how to take part” lesson: keeping informed on public-policy issues, participating in the civic process (registering and voting, showing up at county, city, and school-board meetings, contacting legislators), and upholding the law — taught for the local and state levels Delaware's course centers, with the general civics courses covering the federal level.

• Civics Standard One (Government), Grades 9-12

  Partially covered

  Students will analyze the ways in which the structure and purposes of different governments around the world reflect differing ideologies, cultures, values, and histories.

  Covered by

  • Delaware Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 1 · The only state that amends its constitution without a public vote
  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 3 · The executive and the General Assembly
  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 4 · A politically balanced bench, and how a bill becomes law
  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government (just three counties) and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the course analyzes the structure and purposes of ONE government in depth — Delaware's — and how they reflect its own ideology, values, and history (a legislature-centered constitutional tradition, a business-law judiciary, and the pride of being “The First State”). The benchmark's comparison of different governments around the world is not the course's method, so this is claimed as partial.

• Civics Standard Two (Politics), Grades 9-12 — the dynamic process of government

  Partially covered

  Students will understand that the functioning of the government is a dynamic process which combines the formal balances of power incorporated in the Constitution with traditions, precedents, and interpretations which have evolved over the past 200 years.

  Covered by

  • Delaware Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 1 · The only state that amends its constitution without a public vote
  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 2 · The corporate capital of America and the Court of Chancery
  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 4 · A politically balanced bench, and how a bill becomes law

  What we do and don't cover: Partial, applied to Delaware: the course teaches the formal balances of power in Delaware's Constitution of 1897 (the amendment process, the veto and three-fifths override, appointment-and-confirmation of judges) alongside the traditions, precedents, and interpretations that have evolved around them — the Court of Chancery's deep body of business-law precedent and the litigated major-party balance rule. It is not the general 200-year survey of the U.S. Constitution the benchmark frames.

• Civics Standard Four (Participation), Grades 9-12 — working with government agencies

  Partially covered

  Students will develop and employ the skills necessary to work with government programs and agencies.

  Covered by

  • Delaware Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What

  • · Delaware Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government (just three counties) and how to take part
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the course develops skills to engage Delaware's government bodies directly — registering and confirming rules with the Department of Elections, attending county council/Levy Court, municipal, and school-board meetings, and contacting legislators — but it does not walk through navigating government programs and agencies as a service-access skill, so this is claimed as 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 Delaware (Common Core) mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Delaware was an NGSS lead state and the 7th state to adopt the NGSS verbatim (unanimous State Board vote, September 19, 2013), so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
• Two Civics 9-12 expectations we checked and rejected. Civics Standard Two 9-12 (“examine and analyze the extra-Constitutional role that political parties play in American politics”) is not taught: Delaware Civics teaches the CONSTITUTIONAL major-party balance rule on Delaware's courts, which is the opposite of an extra-Constitutional party analysis. Civics Standard Four 9-12 (“understand the process of working within a political party, a commission engaged in examining public policy, or a citizen's group”) is likewise not taught — the course teaches running for local office and attending public boards, not working inside a party, commission, or advocacy group. The courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• Economics — Macroeconomics is not taught. Economics Standard Two 9-12 (how economies function as a whole — inflation, unemployment, business cycles, and monetary and fiscal policies) is not taught by this catalog. The BVC economics is microeconomic and trade-focused (commodity prices, value chains, trade barriers), so we claim the Microeconomics, Economic Systems, and International Trade expectations and reject Macroeconomics.
• Geography — Maps (excluded as unverifiable here) and Regions. The Commodity Map itself would map to Geography Standard One (Maps), but that strand's Grades 9-12 expectation is a bulleted, multi-part standard (mapped patterns analyzed through hierarchy, accessibility, diffusion, and complementarity, each with its own parenthetical definition) that we could not reproduce cleanly verbatim in a single entry — verbatim-or-nothing, so we exclude it rather than paraphrase, and note the gap here. Geography Standard Four (Regions) is not genuinely taught. The gap on Maps is in our transcription, not the lessons.
• History — the Content strand's Delaware connection. History Standard Four 9-12 asks for modern United States and world history “and its connections to Delaware history.” The catalog teaches world and U.S. history at real depth, but not Delaware's own history, which the benchmark centers — so we map the History strand's analytical expectations (Chronology, Analysis, Interpretation) and do not claim the Content strand.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Delaware's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Delaware claims this pass.