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Designed for high school. Below is every Illinoisstandard 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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  • We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Learn.WitUS against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Illinois's education authority or by anyone else.
  • 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.

Illinois · Social Studies

Illinois Learning Standards for Social Science — Civics, High School (SS.CV)

Illinois Learning Standards for Social Science, Grades 9-12 (2017) · Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) · retrieved 2026-07-18

Illinois's high-school Civics strand states disciplinary concepts, not course benchmarks — no standard names a state's structure. The Illinois Civics flagship (written from Illinois's own sources) therefore maps onto the institution and participation standards (SS.CV.1, SS.CV.2, SS.CV.3), and the general U.S. civics ladder onto the constitutional-system standards (SS.CV.4, SS.CV.7, SS.CV.10). Illinois's own structure — the plural executive, the Cutback Amendment, home rule — has no code that names it; see notClaimed.

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  • SS.CV.1.9-12

    Covered
    Distinguish the rights, roles, powers, and responsibilities of individuals and institutions in the political system.

    Covered by

    • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 1 · Illinois's modern Constitution of 1970
    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 2 · Illinois's plural executive: six statewide officers
    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 3 · The General Assembly and the partisan-elected Supreme Court
    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 5 · Home rule and local government (the opposite of Dillon's Rule)
    • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship

    Note: The roles and powers of institutions are taught head-on at both levels: the federal three branches, and Illinois's own institutions — the plural executive of six statewide officers, the General Assembly, the partisan-elected courts, and Illinois's strong home-rule local governments — beside citizens' own roles and responsibilities.

  • SS.CV.2.9-12

    Covered
    Evaluate the opportunities and limitations of participation in elections, voting, and electoral process.

    Covered by

    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections and how to take part
    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 4 · The limited citizen initiative and the 1980 Cutback Amendment
    • · Voting & Elections 101, Lessons 1-3 · registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote
    • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 7 · Counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote
    • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 8 · Verify your own registration and rules
    • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
    • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)

    Note: Participation is taught as practice — Illinois's own on-ramps (same-day and automatic registration, no-excuse vote-by-mail) and the general election ladder — and the standard's “limitations” land squarely on Illinois's uniquely narrow initiative, the only thing citizens may put on the ballot themselves.

  • SS.CV.3.9-12

    Partially covered
    Analyze the impact of constitutions, laws, and agreements on the maintenance of order, justice, equality and liberty.

    Covered by

    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 1 · Illinois's modern Constitution of 1970
    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 2 · Illinois's plural executive: six statewide officers
    • · Illinois Civics, Lesson 3 · The General Assembly and the partisan-elected Supreme Court
    • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
    • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation
    • · 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

    What we do and don't cover: Constitutions and laws are analyzed directly — Illinois's 1970 Constitution and the U.S. Constitution as a document, with landmark cases as applied rules balancing liberty and order. The standard's “agreements” (treaties and compacts) are not the courses' subject.

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 Illinois Common Core (Illinois Learning Standards) mathematics standard.
  • Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Illinois adopted the NGSS verbatim (January 2014) as its science standards, 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.
  • Financial Literacy (SS.EC.FL) — nothing. Illinois's Economics strand carries a six-standard Financial Literacy sub-strand (income strategies, budgeting, interest and inflation, credit, investing, insurance). This catalog teaches no personal finance, so it claims none of SS.EC.FL.1-6.
  • The Illinois Civics flagship's Illinois-specific structure has no Illinois code to cite. Illinois Civics teaches the 1970 Constitution, the plural executive (uniquely both a Comptroller and a Treasurer), the partisan-elected Supreme Court, the uniquely narrow Legislative-Article initiative and the 1980 Cutback Amendment, and one of the nation's strongest home-rule traditions — from Illinois's own official sources. But the 2017 Social Science Standards are DISCIPLINARY CONCEPTS: no standard names a state's structure, so these lessons map only onto the abstract institution and participation standards (SS.CV.1, SS.CV.2, SS.CV.3). The gap is in the standards, not the course.
  • Civics standards we checked and rejected. SS.CV.5 (civic dispositions and diverse perspectives as a named concept) and SS.CV.6 (political parties, the media, and public interest groups — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
  • The disciplinary standards we read and did not claim. Across History, Economics, and Geography we claim only the concept standards the catalog genuinely teaches. SS.H.2/4/5/6/11/12, SS.EC.2-4/6-8, and SS.G.1-5/7/9/10 were checked and not claimed — the change-and-continuity, market-mechanics, macroeconomic-indicator, mapping-tool, and culture standards are not this catalog's subject. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.

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