Michigan standards alignment

• C6.1.2

  Covered

  Explain how the United States has limited and expanded citizenship over time.

  Covered by

  • Not a State

  • · Not a State, Lesson 3 · How each one arrived
  • · Not a State, Lesson 9 · Nationals, but not citizens
  • · Not a State, Lesson 10 · Fitisemanu, and who stood on which side
  • · Not a State, Lesson 11 · Fa'a Samoa, and a choice nobody else gets to make

  Note: The standard's own examples are legislation and constitutional amendments, and both are the substance of the lessons: citizenship conferred on Puerto Rico in 1917, the Virgin Islands in 1927 and 1932, Guam in 1950 and the Northern Marianas by the 1976 Covenant, never conferred on American Samoa, and the Fourteenth Amendment question litigated in Fitisemanu v. United States.

• C6.1.3

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast rights and representation among U.S. people and citizens living in states, territories, federal districts, and on tribally governed land.

  Covered by

  • Not a State

  • · Not a State, Lesson 13 · A seat without a vote
  • · Not a State, Lesson 14 · No electors, and the amendment that made one exception
  • · Not a State, Lesson 15 · The District is different, and the difference cuts both ways
  • · Not a State, Lesson 2 · The clause that governs, and the default it replaced
  • · Not a State, Lesson 5 · Downes v. Bidwell, and a word the Constitution never uses
  • · Not a State, Lesson 6 · Balzac, and the right that did not follow
  • · Not a State, Lesson 7 · The critics, by name, and the defense they answer
  • · Not a State, Lesson 3 · How each one arrived
  • · Not a State, Lesson 9 · Nationals, but not citizens
  • · Not a State, Lesson 10 · Fitisemanu, and who stood on which side
  • · Not a State, Lesson 11 · Fa'a Samoa, and a choice nobody else gets to make

  What we do and don't cover: Near-1:1 on the standard's own named examples for states, territories and the federal district: the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa are each taught by name, with the Delegates, the Resident Commissioner's four-year term, the Senate's total absence, and the Twenty-Third Amendment's capped electors. PARTIAL because the standard also names TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS, and this course deliberately refuses to teach tribal sovereignty, handing it to `tribal-nations-governance` and giving the comparison one careful lesson instead of a claim.

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 Michigan Common Core (Michigan K-12) mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Michigan adopted the NGSS verbatim as the Michigan Science Standards (November 10, 2015), 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.
• Michigan's World History, U.S. History, Economics, and Geography strands — deferred, not denied. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and Cold-War history and its commodity economics WOULD map to Michigan's high-school World History (WHG), U.S. History (USHG), Economics (E), and Geography (G) strands, as they do in other states. But those strands sit in the 2019 document's multi-column, era-based layout, and the PDF's subset-font encoding makes clean verbatim transcription of that layout unreliable. Our rule is verbatim-or-nothing, so we mapped the High School Civics strand (which decoded cleanly and was verified) this pass and DEFER the other social-studies strands rather than risk citing text we cannot cleanly verify.
• C6.1.2 and C6.1.3 were rejected in July 2026 and are now CLAIMED, because the catalog changed. The 2026-07-18 pass rejected both on the ground that no course genuinely taught the expansion of citizenship or territorial representation. That was true then. `territories-and-representation` (Not a State) shipped afterward and teaches exactly this material from primary federal sources, so both codes are now claimed: C6.1.2 in full, C6.1.3 as PARTIAL because its named examples include tribal governments, which that course deliberately declines to teach. The rejection is recorded here rather than deleted, so the change is visible.
• Tribal governments (C3.2.3, C3.2.4). Michigan's C3.2 cluster names tribal governments and tribal sovereignty (C3.2.4 is entirely about it). Michigan Civics teaches Michigan's state and local structure but not tribal governments, so C3.2.3 is claimed as partial and C3.2.4 is not claimed. The gap is in the course, not the standards.
• Michigan's own state structure is taught more fully than any one code captures. Michigan Civics teaches the 1963 Constitution, the nonpartisan-ballot-but-party-nominated Supreme Court, the joint-ticket Lieutenant Governor with a separately elected Secretary of State and Attorney General, term limits (Proposal 1 of 2022), and the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission — from Michigan's own sources. C3.2.3 (how state/local governments are organized) and C3.2.6 (initiative/referendum/recall) host most of it, but the judicial-selection quirk and the redistricting commission's design have no code of their own beyond the direct-democracy mechanism that created it.
• The federal-heavy and political-science civics standards we checked and rejected. C1.1.1-1.1.4 (political philosophy and systems of government), C2.1.1-2.1.3 (the founding debates and origins as named content), C2.2.1-2.2.3 (the Democratic Values ↔ Constitutional Principles pairing), C3.1.6 (federal revenue and expenditure), C3.3.1-3.3.6 (interest groups, parties, public opinion, campaigns, NGOs, and media types — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), all of C4 (the Bill of Rights and civil-rights case lists — touched only through Know Your Rights, a thin overlap), all of C5 (U.S. foreign policy and international institutions), C6.3.1 (civic dispositions as a named concept), and C6.4.1/6.4.2 (the pursuit of Democratic Values and a survey of civil disobedience and social movements) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.