Louisiana standards alignment

• C.9.b

  Covered

  Explain the structure and processes of the U.S. government as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, including the branches of government; federalism; how a bill becomes a law at the federal level; and the process for amending the U.S. Constitution.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · 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?
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments

  Note: This is the core of the civics ladder: the three branches and their relationships (US Constitution 101; US Civics 101), federalism, the complete federal lawmaking process (How a Bill Becomes Law), and the Article V amendment process.

• C.10.b

  Covered

  Analyze the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and their application to historical and current issues.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)
  • · 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

  Note: The Bill of Rights is taught as a document and then applied issue by issue — speech, religion, press, assembly, and the Fourth Amendment in a digital age — through Tinker, Brandenburg, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, and Carpenter.

• C.8.d

  Partially covered

  Analyze the foundational documents and ideas of the United States government and its formation, including Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, Enlightenment philosophies, English Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, the Articles of the Confederation, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights, and the Federalist papers, and their role and importance in the origin and development of the nation.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation
  • · 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)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Articles of Confederation's failure, the 1787 Constitution it produced, and the Bill of Rights are taught in full (US Constitution 101). The earlier documents the expectation lists (Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the English Bill of Rights) and the Federalist papers are not taught as their own content.

• C.8.g

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the fundamental principles and concepts of the U.S. government including Creator-endowed unalienable rights of the people, due process, equal justice under the law, equal protection, federalism, frequent and free elections in a representative government, individual responsibility, individual rights, limited government, private property rights, popular sovereignty, right to privacy, rule of law, the supremacy clause, and the separation of powers with checks and balances.

  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?
  • · 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
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the structural principles are taught in full — federalism, separation of powers with checks and balances, limited government, popular sovereignty, rule of law, and the supremacy clause (through McCulloch v. Maryland). The rights-side principles the expectation lists (due process, equal protection, right to privacy) are taught through the rights courses, not as a principles survey.

• C.9.c

  Partially covered

  Analyze the structure, powers, and functions of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government, including rules of operations of Congress; checks on the other branches of government; powers of the legislative branch such as those to make laws, declare war, tax and spend; and duties of representatives, senators, leadership (Speaker of the House, the Senate President Pro Tempore, majority and minority leaders, party whips), committees, and commissions.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the legislative branch's powers, its checks on the other branches, and the whole lawmaking process (committees through presidential action) are taught in full. The Congressional leadership hierarchy the expectation names (Speaker, President Pro Tempore, whips) is not the lessons' focus.

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 Louisiana mathematics standard (the Louisiana Student Standards for Mathematics, Louisiana's own since it replaced Common Core).
• English Language Arts — deferred, and deliberately NOT aliased. Louisiana replaced Common Core with its own Louisiana Student Standards for ELA. Those standards may be Common-Core-derived, but our rule is compare-before-aliasing: we have not fetched and compared the Louisiana ELA document this pass, so we do NOT alias Louisiana onto the shared Common Core file, and we make no Louisiana ELA claim yet. The catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, and argument-writing teaching would be the candidates when it is fetched.
• Science — deferred, and deliberately NOT aliased. Louisiana's science is Louisiana's own. Louisiana's science standards (the 2017 Louisiana Student Standards for Science) are NGSS-BASED, but they are Louisiana's own document with Louisiana's own adoption. Blind-aliasing Louisiana onto our shared NGSS file without confirming the codes and text match would violate the rule, so we have not done it; the two Earth-science claims used elsewhere would be the candidates once the Louisiana document is fetched and compared.
• Civics expectations we checked and do NOT claim. C.8.b/c/e/f (comparing systems of government, the Enlightenment philosophers, ratification debates, and natural-rights theory), C.9.d (the executive branch's Cabinet, executive orders, and the 'bully pulpit'), C.9.g/h (constructionist interpretation by name; how governments raise and allocate revenue), C.10.d (equal protection and due process doctrine), C.11.c/g/h/i/j (political parties and interest groups; gerrymandering and turnout; the media's effect on politics — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis; Louisiana's congressional redistricting), C.12.a/c/e (the policy-fields survey; U.S. interactions with other nations; post-WWII international law), C.13.a/c/e/f (Adam Smith and the invisible hand; government-regulation perspectives; market structures and factors of production), and all of C.14 (personal financial literacy) are not genuinely taught by these courses, so we do not claim them.