Tennessee standards alignment

• GC.19

  Covered

  Analyze Article III of the Constitution as it relates to judicial power, including the length of terms and the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court

  Note: Article III and the federal judiciary's structure, life tenure, and jurisdiction are taught directly.

• GC.20

  Covered

  Explain the processes of selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices.

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 2 · How a judge gets there: nomination and confirmation

  Note: An entire lesson: Article II advice-and-consent, the Judiciary Committee, and the simple-majority rule after 2013/2017.

• GC.22

  Covered

  Describe the Supreme Court’s role in determining the constitutionality of laws and acts of the legislative and executive branches.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 1 · The federal judiciary: from district courts to the Supreme Court
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 7 · Checks on the Court

  Note: The Court's power to determine constitutionality — and the checks on it — is taught in the judicial-branch course.

• GC.23

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the freedoms articulated in the 1st Amendment, including: Schenck v. United States, New York Times v. United States, Engel v. Vitale, Miller v. California, Tinker v. Des Moines, Texas v. Johnson, Lemon v. Kurtzman.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · 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
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent

  What we do and don't cover: Tinker v. Des Moines, in the standard's own list, is taught as an applicable rule, and First Amendment interpretation and its limits are taught directly. Most of the other enumerated cases are different ones, so we claim the case-application skill, not the full list.

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 flagship's most distinctive Tennessee facts have no Tennessee code to cite. Tennessee Civics teaches, from Tennessee's own sources, the Attorney General appointed by the state Supreme Court (unique in the nation), the Senate Speaker who carries the title 'Lieutenant Governor,' the Secretary of State/Treasurer/Comptroller elected by the Legislature, the unusually weak simple-majority veto override, the 'Tennessee Plan' appointment-then-retention judiciary, the ABSENCE of any citizen initiative, and Tennessee's photo-ID and excuse-required-absentee voting rules. The 2019 standards' Tennessee State and Local Government strand (GC.28–GC.30) reaches Tennessee's branches and its county/city/metro local government, and that is where those lessons are mapped — but the standards do not separately name the Attorney-General arrangement, the weak veto, the no-initiative rule, or the voting specifics, so those flagship details carry no dedicated code. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
• English language arts, mathematics, and science — Tennessee's own, and not fetched. Tennessee withdrew from the Common Core and writes its own Tennessee Academic Standards for ELA and Mathematics, and its own science standards (not the NGSS). Each lives in a separate framework document we did not retrieve this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Tennessee gets no ELA, math, or science claim — even though the catalog's source-evaluation and research work would likely map to Tennessee's ELA literacy standards once fetched.
• The federal-heavy government standards we checked and did not claim. The United States Government and Civics course contains many standards beyond the ones above — GC.01 (European/classical roots), GC.02 (the Declaration's grievances), GC.09 (democracy vs. republic as defined terms), GC.11 (the census, redistricting, Baker v. Carr), GC.12/GC.16/GC.17 (leadership positions and executive departments as named lists), GC.14 (identify your current members of Congress), GC.24 (the Second Amendment), GC.26/GC.27 (the 14th Amendment case menu; Title IX and the ADA), and GC.33 (media's influence on public opinion — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis). The courses do not genuinely teach these as written, so we do not claim them.
• The rest of Economics, World History, and US History we checked. Economics standards on market structures, money and banking, fiscal and monetary policy, and macroeconomic measurement (E.16–E.44), and the personal-finance content, are not genuinely taught. World History beyond the two imperialism standards (the World Wars, the Cold War, the Berlin Conference case detail) and US History beyond labor, the Great Migration, Prohibition, and the Harlem Renaissance (American imperialism and the Spanish-American War, the New Deal, the World Wars, the civil-rights movement's full arc) are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.