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Illinois standards alignment
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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Read this before you rely on it
- 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.
Read the source document →SS.CV.4.9-12
CoveredExplain how the US Constitution established a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limits that have changed over time and are still contested while promoting the common good and protecting rights.
Covered by
- US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
- State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
- · 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 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
- · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
- · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
- · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy
- · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)
- · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
Note: The U.S. Constitution ladder's core: separation of powers and checks and balances, the enumerated/implied/reserved/concurrent powers taxonomy, federalism, and the Bill of Rights as a limit on government — taught as a living, contested system.
SS.CV.7.9-12
CoveredDescribe the concepts and principles that are inherent to American Constitutional Democracy.
Covered by
- US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
- State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
- The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
- · 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, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why
- · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
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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