Maine standards alignment

• Civics & Government 1

  Partially covered

  Students understand the ideals, purposes, principles, structures, and processes of constitutional government in the United States and in the American political system, as well as examples of other forms of government and political systems in the world by: (F) Explaining that the study of government includes the structures, functions, institutions, and forms of government. (D) Evaluating and comparing the relationship of citizens with government in the United States and other regions of the world. (F) Explaining how and why democratic institutions and interpretations of democratic ideals and constitutional principles change over time. (D) Evaluating current issues by applying democratic ideals and constitutional principles of government in the United States, including checks and balances, federalism, and consent of the governed as put forth in founding documents. (F) Describing the purpose, structures, and processes of the American political system. (D) Comparing the American political system with examples of political systems from other parts of the world.

  Covered by

  • Maine Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · Maine Civics, Lesson 1 · Maine's Constitution of 1820 (and its split from Massachusetts)
  • · Maine Civics, Lesson 2 · Maine's executive: the Governor is the only statewide-elected official
  • · Maine Civics, Lesson 5 · Appointed judges, town meetings, and split electoral votes
  • · Maine Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes law, plus the initiative and 'people's veto'
  • · Maine Civics, Lesson 3 · Ranked-choice voting: Maine went first
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments

  What we do and don't cover: The flagship's primary home: the structures and processes of constitutional government in the American political system are taught in full — the U.S. Constitution's checks and balances, federalism, and consent of the governed, how democratic principles change over time (the Article V amendment process), AND Maine's own political system (the Constitution of 1820, the Governor-only statewide executive, the appointed Law Court, ranked-choice voting, and the citizen initiative and people's veto). Partial because the standard's (D) indicators also require COMPARING the American system with the political systems of other parts of the world, which this catalog does not do.

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 Maine Learning Results mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Maine adopted the NGSS in 2019 (LD 283) as its Science and Engineering 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.
• Maine's own state structure is taught more fully than any one Civics & Government indicator names. Maine Civics teaches the Constitution of 1820 and the split from Massachusetts, the Governor as the only statewide-elected official (with the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Treasurer chosen by the Legislature), Maine as the first state to adopt ranked-choice voting and the constitutional nuance that limits it, the citizen initiative and the people's veto, the appointed Supreme Judicial Court ('Law Court'), the open town meeting and 16 counties, the unorganized territory, and the split of presidential electoral votes by district — all from Maine's own sources. Civics & Government 1 (the American political system) and 2 (how people influence government) host most of it, but the Maine Learning Results performance expectations are concept statements, not a Maine-government checklist, so ranked-choice voting, the people's veto, and the Legislature's election of the constitutional officers have no code of their own.
• Civics & Government 3 (cultural diversity; Maine Native Americans) — considered, not the catalog's focus. Civics & Government 3 is about the political and civic aspects of cultural diversity — 'the political structures and civic responsibilities of the diverse historic and current cultures of Maine, including Maine Native Americans,' and of the United States and the world. The Maine flagship teaches Maine's political structures and a civic-action habit, but it does not teach the cultural-diversity and Maine Native American political history this standard centers, so we do not claim it. (The civic-action / community-service work it also names is claimed under Civics & Government 2, its honest home.)
• The comparison-to-other-nations indicators across Civics & Government. Several Civics & Government (D) indicators require comparing the American political system, and the rights and duties of U.S. citizens, with those of OTHER nations and other forms of government in the world. This catalog's civics is domestic structure, rights, and participation, so the comparative-government half of Civics & Government 1 and 2 is the reason each is claimed partial rather than full.
• The Economics and Geography strands — considered, deferred this pass. Maine's Social Studies Learning Results also carry Economics and Geography strands, and this catalog's commodity, trade, and resource-map content plausibly reaches parts of them. But we transcribe and verify one strand document at a time, and only the Civics & Government and History strands were fetched and confirmed verbatim this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Economics and Geography carry no Maine claims yet rather than being mapped from memory.
• The ELA strands and grade bands outside the Reading/Writing claims above. Maine's ELA Learning Results run across four strands (Language, Speaking & Listening, Reading, Writing) and all grade bands. We claim only the Grades 9-Diploma Reading standards on perspective/purpose, evaluating arguments and claims, and synthesizing sources, and the Writing inquiry standard — the reading, source-evaluation, and research work the catalog genuinely does. The Language and Speaking & Listening strands, the earlier grade bands, and the Reading/Writing standards outside those claims are not separately mapped.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Maine's closest frameworks for these (its Technology / computer-science and world-languages Learning Results) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Maine claims this pass.