South Dakota standards alignment

• 9-12.C.17.B

  Covered

  The student explains the structure of the South Dakota state government, the function of its branches, and the requirements and responsibilities of elected officials based on the current South Dakota Constitution.

  Covered by

  • South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches, and South Dakota's plural executive
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 3 · South Dakota's courts: merit selection for the Supreme Court, elected circuit judges
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a South Dakota law (and how voters do it directly)
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 1 · South Dakota's constitution and the first citizen initiative in America (1898)
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in South Dakota (the initiative and referendum)

  Note: The flagship's primary home: South Dakota's own state government is taught in depth — the 1889 constitution, the 35-district Legislature (a 35-seat Senate and a 70-seat House, each district electing one senator and two representatives), the plural executive (a joint-ticket Governor and Lieutenant Governor with a separately elected Attorney General, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Commissioner of School and Public Lands), and the merit-selected-then-retained Supreme Court.

• 9-12.C.17.C

  Covered

  The student explains the structure of the local government in whose jurisdiction the school is located.

  Covered by

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

  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local and tribal government in South Dakota: 66 counties, townships, and the nine tribes
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in South Dakota
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 5 · What LOCAL government handles (and why it VARIES)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 7 · The governments you forget: special districts & boards

  Note: South Dakota local government is taught as South Dakota's own: its 66 counties, the organized civil townships that survive across much of the eastern part of the state, and cities and towns — and the general layer of special districts and boards people forget.

• 9-12.C.17.D

  Covered

  The student explains the election process at the state and local levels of government in South Dakota, including the importance of frequent and fair elections.

  Covered by

  • South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in South Dakota: the initiative and referendum, absentee voting, and voter ID
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in South Dakota

  Note: South Dakota's state and local elections are taught as South Dakota's — its first-in-the-nation citizen initiative and referendum, no-excuse absentee voting, and the photo-ID request at the polls — with the standing advice to confirm current rules with the Secretary of State.

• 9-12.C.17.E

  Covered

  The student explains the constitutions, structure, and function of various tribal governments within South Dakota, including the nine federally recognized tribes of South Dakota.

  Covered by

  • South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local and tribal government in South Dakota: 66 counties, townships, and the nine tribes

  Note: A distinctive South Dakota civics topic taught directly: the constitutions, structure, and function of the nine federally recognized tribal governments within South Dakota.

• 9-12.C.17.F

  Covered

  The student explains the relationship, both historical and at present, between various levels of government within South Dakota, including between federal, state, local, and tribal governments.

  Covered by

  • South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local and tribal government in South Dakota: 66 counties, townships, and the nine tribes
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in South Dakota

  Note: The federal-state-local-tribal relationship the standard names is taught through federalism (why power is split among levels) and the South Dakota tribal-and-local-government lesson.

• 9-12.C.16.B

  Covered

  The student explains the election process at the federal level for president, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, based on South Dakota law.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · 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
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in South Dakota: the initiative and referendum, absentee voting, and voter ID

  Note: Election mechanics (registration, primaries, voting methods, counting and certifying) are taught generally, and South Dakota's own election law is taught in the flagship — the standard's explicit "based on South Dakota law" anchor.

• 9-12.C.16.E

  Covered

  The student identifies the ways in which citizens engage in politics beyond voting, including through political parties, interest groups, meeting with elected officials, petitions, attending public meetings and hearings, writing, speaking, and assembling.

  Covered by

  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in South Dakota

  Note: The standard's own examples — meeting officials, petitions, public meetings and hearings, writing and speaking — are each taught as practice: showing up at the level where an issue is decided, tracking a live bill, helping a campaign or ballot measure, and getting involved in South Dakota.

• 9-12.C.17.A

  Partially covered

  The student tells the story of how South Dakota became a state.

  Covered by

  • South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 1 · South Dakota's constitution and the first citizen initiative in America (1898)
  • · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in South Dakota (the initiative and referendum)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the flagship teaches South Dakota's 1889 constitution and the direct democracy it soon adopted (the 1898 first-in-the-nation initiative and referendum); the fuller narrative of how South Dakota became a state is background context, not a taught unit.

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:

• The founding-philosophy and primary-source-reading core of the civics course (9-12.C.2-4, most of 9-12.C.5) — not claimed. The bulk of South Dakota's civics course is a close reading of founding thought and documents: 9-12.C.2 (the modern way of life), 9-12.C.3 (Greek, Roman, and English influences, the Magna Carta and Mayflower Compact, Locke's Second Treatise), 9-12.C.4 (the Declaration of Independence clause by clause), and the political-philosophy indicators in 9-12.C.5 (human nature, majority tyranny, Montesquieu, the Federalist essays 9/10/51/78 as assigned reading). The catalog teaches the Constitution's structure and the federal ladder, but not this assigned-primary-source, natural-rights-philosophy curriculum, so we do not claim it.
• The Second Amendment (9-12.C.7.F) — not claimed. 9-12.C.7.F is entirely about the Second Amendment. The catalog's Know Your Rights course teaches the First and Fourth Amendments as applied rights but not the Second, so this indicator is not claimed. The gap is in the course, not the standard.
• Slavery, the Civil War, civil rights, Progressivism, and the governing-institutions/policy history (9-12.C.8-14) — deferred, not denied. 9-12.C.8-9 (slavery and the Civil War through Douglass, Lincoln's Peoria and Cooper-Union-era speeches, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address), 9-12.C.10 (civil rights through the Declaration of Sentiments, Niagara's Declaration of Principles, Brown v. Board, and King's "I Have a Dream"), 9-12.C.11 (20th-century Progressivism), 9-12.C.12 (governing institutions and federal-state cases), 9-12.C.13's policy and Supreme-Court-case indicators, and 9-12.C.14 (foreign policy) are document-and-case-driven history standards. The catalog's Great Migration, History of Unions, and commodity-history courses TOUCH some of this content (the Jim Crow South, poll taxes, the Reconstruction amendments), but they do not deliver it as this civics course's assigned readings and case lists, so — verbatim-or-nothing on coverage — we defer these rather than claim a civics match we cannot make cleanly.
• The regime-comparison capstone (9-12.C.18) — not claimed. 9-12.C.18 compares the American experiment to monarchy, aristocracy, direct democracy, Progressivism, totalitarianism, communism, socialism, fascism, oligarchy, and imperialism, and to the French Revolution. The catalog teaches American constitutional structure, not a comparative-regime capstone, so we do not claim it.
• The civics skills standard 9-12.C.1 — not separately claimed. 9-12.C.1 asks students to identify the state's own current officeholders and local tribal leaders (9-12.C.1.A) and to write informative and persuasive essays on American government (9-12.C.1.B-C). The flagship teaches the structure of South Dakota's offices and civic writing is practiced, but we do not transcribe or separately claim this skills standard (its officeholder list is a long, roster-dependent enumeration we will not cite verbatim as a fixed standard text).
• English/Language Arts — deferred (South Dakota's ELA is its own document, Common-Core-derived). South Dakota adopted the Common Core in 2010 but maintains its own English Language Arts standards, so the shared Common Core ELA file is not blind-aliased; the rule is compare-before-aliasing. South Dakota's own ELA reading/writing standards were not fetched-and-verified this pass, so we defer them rather than assume the shared text still matches South Dakota's printed codes. The catalog's source-evaluation and media-literacy work is instead claimed against South Dakota's own civics media-literacy standard, 9-12.C.16.D.
• Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no South Dakota mathematics standard (South Dakota's math standards, like its ELA, are South Dakota's own Common-Core-derived document).
• Science — deferred (South Dakota's 2015 science standards are NGSS-based but its own document). The South Dakota Science Standards (2015) are NGSS-based but South Dakota's own document, so the shared NGSS file is not blind-aliased and the rule is compare-before-aliasing. The one Earth-science-adjacent claim the catalog could support (climate and resources shaping human activity) is deferred until South Dakota's own science document is fetched and its performance-expectation text is confirmed to match the shared NGSS wording.
• South Dakota's other social-studies disciplines (World History, U.S. History, World Geography, Economics) — deferred, not denied. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and migration history and its Commodity Map geography WOULD map to South Dakota's 9-12 World History (9-12.WH), U.S. History (9-12.USH), World Geography (9-12.WG), and Economics (9-12.E) standards, as they do in other states. We mapped the United States Government/American Civics course this pass (the flagship's home) and DEFER the history, geography, and economics disciplines to a later pass rather than claim standards we have not yet transcribed and verified.