South Carolina standards alignment

• USG.3.IP

  Partially covered

  Explain how the electoral process works in federal elections and the effects those elections have on U.S. government.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lessons 1-3 · registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 7 · Counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 8 · Verify your own registration and rules
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote

  What we do and don't cover: The electoral process is taught in working detail — registration, primaries, how you vote, counting and certifying, and the Electoral College's mechanics and purpose. The standard's historical half (the struggles over the extension of suffrage and federal campaign/electoral rules) is thinner, so this is partial.

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 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready mathematics standard.
• English/Language Arts — South Carolina's OWN standards (after the Common Core exit): deferred. South Carolina withdrew from the Common Core in 2015 and adopted its own South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards for English Language Arts, under South Carolina-specific codes. The shared Common Core ELA mapping this catalog uses in Common Core states does NOT apply in South Carolina. The catalog's ELA-literacy strengths — evaluating an author's point of view and evidence, analyzing rhetoric, and sustained research with citation — would map to South Carolina's own reading and writing inquiry standards, but transcribing and verifying those verbatim is deferred this pass (verbatim-or-nothing) and published here rather than claimed unverified.
• Science — South Carolina's OWN standards (not the NGSS): deferred, not denied. South Carolina adopted its own South Carolina Academic Standards and Performance Indicators for Science (2021), NOT the Next Generation Science Standards, so the shared NGSS mapping this catalog uses in NGSS states does not apply in South Carolina. The catalog's climate/resource content would find an analog in South Carolina's Earth/environmental-science standards, but this pass mapped only the United States Government course; South Carolina's science standards are deferred (verbatim-or-nothing), not claimed unverified.
• South Carolina's own state structure is taught more fully than USG.2.CC captures. USG.2.CC ('how governments in South Carolina are organized and how they function') is the one indicator that names South Carolina's own government, and it is the flagship's home. But South Carolina's most distinctive facts — the General Assembly ELECTING the judges (shared only with Virginia), the 1895 weak-governor design, the unusually large plural executive of separately elected officials, the ABSENCE of a citizen initiative, and the distinctive re-ratification step for amendments — are all folded into that single indicator rather than each having a code of its own.
• The founding-philosophy and political-science Government indicators we checked and rejected. USG.1.ER (the philosophical influences on core political principles — Greek democracy, Roman republicanism, and the Enlightenment thinkers), USG.1.CC (the major debates and compromises underlying the formation and ratification of the Constitution — the Convention's bargains), USG.3.IN (how American political beliefs and ideological trends are formed by founding principles, core values, and changing demographics), USG.3.CC (the role of linkage institutions — media, interest groups, and political parties — in shaping the public agenda; our media literacy is consumer/source literacy, not political-media analysis), and USG.4.CC (contemporary equal-protection issues, social movements, and landmark civil-rights legislation) — the United States Government course and the general civics catalog do not genuinely teach these, or teach them too thinly to claim, so we do not claim them.
• South Carolina's other Social Studies courses — deferred. The grade-12 United States Government course is one of several in the 2019 Social Studies standards (which also include United States History, World History, Economics, and Geography courses). The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, and civil-rights history and its commodity economics WOULD map to the US/World History and Economics courses, as they do in other states, but we mapped the United States Government course this pass and defer the rest rather than cite text we did not transcribe this pass.
• The United States Government 'Deconstructed Skills' (the ER/IN/CC/IP skill framework). Standard 1's 'Deconstructed Skills' table defines the four cross-cutting skills (Establish Relationships, Interpret, Communicate and Conclude, Informed Participation) that the numbered indicators exercise. The catalog's source-literacy method — analyzing primary and secondary sources, and detecting bias in media and political cartoons — aligns well with the Interpret and Communicate-and-Conclude skill descriptors, but those are the course's skill framework, not coded content standards, so we cite the content indicators (USG.n.x) rather than the skill descriptors.