Georgia standards alignment

• SSCG4

  Covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of the organization and powers of the national government.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · 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

  Note: Both elements: the structure, powers, and limitations of the three branches as described in the Constitution, and the checks-and-balances/separation-of-powers relationship among them.

• SSCG5

  Covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of the federal system of government described in the United States Constitution.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · 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
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments

  Note: The federalism course and the powers course cover the state-national relationship, the enumerated/implied/concurrent/reserved powers taxonomy, the Supremacy Clause (through McCulloch v. Maryland), and the roles of Congress and the states in amending the Constitution.

• SSCG13

  Covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of the operation of the judicial branch of government.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 2 · How a judge gets there: nomination and confirmation
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent

  Note: An entire course on the judicial branch covers the selection and approval of federal judges, the jurisdiction of the Supreme and federal courts, how the Court selects and decides cases, and judicial review through Marbury v. Madison; judicial activism versus restraint (element e) is the lightest element.

• SSCG16

  Covered

  Analyze the difference between involuntary and voluntary participation in civic life.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
  • Voting & Elections 101
  • Georgia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Georgia

  Note: Both halves: the required participation the standard names — paying taxes and serving on a jury (an entire course) — and the voluntary participation — voting, public service, and staying informed. The Pledge of Allegiance (element c) is not taught.

• SSCG17

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of the organization and powers of state and local government described in the Georgia Constitution.

  Covered by

  • Georgia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government in Georgia: 159 counties (2nd-most), home rule, NO townships
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in Georgia
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 1 · Georgia's constitution: the 1983 rulebook, and no citizen initiative
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 7 · Why Georgia has no ballot initiative, and how change actually happens
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches, and Georgia's plural executive
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 3 · Georgia's courts: nonpartisan elections for the appellate bench
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a Georgia law

  What we do and don't cover: Partial, and it is the flagship's home: the organization and powers of Georgia's state government (its three branches, its plural executive, its nonpartisan elected appellate courts, and how a bill becomes a Georgia law with the two-thirds veto override, all established by the Georgia Constitution) and element (a) the structure of local governments (Georgia's 159 counties and its cities) and (b) the state-local relationship are taught in depth. Element (e) — limitations citizens may exercise, which Georgia's standard lists as "the initiative, referendum, and recall" — is taught honestly as Georgia's ABSENCE of a statewide citizen initiative and the legislative-referral path that replaces it. Element (c) local revenue sources is not worked.

• SSCG3

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of the framing and structure of the United States Constitution.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · 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 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?

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (b) how the Constitution addressed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and element (c) the fundamental principles (limited government, rule of law, federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances) are taught directly. The drafting compromises (a) and the Federalist/Anti-Federalist ratification debate (d) are not worked.

• SSCG1

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast various systems of government.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • Georgia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 1 · Georgia's constitution: the 1983 rulebook, and no citizen initiative
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 7 · Why Georgia has no ballot initiative, and how change actually happens

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the geographic distribution of power (unitary, confederal, federal) is taught through the federalism course, and the direct-versus-representative distinction (element d) is taught concretely — Georgia as a representative state with no citizen initiative. The authoritarian typology (b) and presidential-versus-parliamentary systems (c) are not taught.

• SSCG6

  Partially covered

  Analyze the meaning and importance of each of the rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and how each is secured.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial, and the standard says "each": speech, religion, press, assembly, and the Fourth Amendment are taught deeply, as applicable rules with their landmark cases and limits. The remaining amendments are introduced but not worked at that depth.

• SSCG7

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of civil liberties and civil rights.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · 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
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 1 · Who is a U.S. citizen? Birthright and the 14th Amendment
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 3 · Becoming a citizen: naturalization eligibility

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: civil liberties as protections against government action (element a) are taught as applicable rules, and the Fourteenth Amendment is taught for citizenship. The incorporation doctrine (c), the civil-rights-statute/Brown v. Board line (b), and how amendments extended the vote (d) are not worked.

• SSCG8

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of the legislative branch of government.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the steps in the legislative process (element e) get an entire course, committees through veto override. The formal qualifications, the 17th Amendment, chamber powers, leadership and committees, and the lobbyist elements are not taught systematically.

• SSCG10

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of the executive branch of government.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the role of the Electoral College in electing the President (element d) is taught in depth — mechanics and original purpose. The qualifications, term and succession, and the presidential-roles elements are not worked.

• SSCG14

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of the criminal justice process.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)

  • · 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
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: an individual's due-process rights (element a — the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments) are taught as applicable rules, and the courtroom/jury side of the process gets an entire course. Categorizing crimes and the sentencing elements are not taught.

• SSCG15

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate knowledge of local, state, and national elections.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • Georgia Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · 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
  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · Georgia Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in Georgia: photo ID, early voting, absentee-by-mail, and the majority runoff

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the nomination and election process (element b) is taught thoroughly, with Georgia's own election rules (photo ID, advance voting, the majority runoff). The party history (a), campaign-finance (c-d), and media-influence (e) elements are not taught — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis.

• SSCG18

  Partially covered

  Examine how American ideals of freedom and democracy protect against the threats of totalitarian ideology.

  Covered by

  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 9 · What winning cost: shock therapy

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: one totalitarian system is worked in real depth — a communist workers' state and the union that unmade it (Poland, Solidarność through the 1989 negotiated exit), which covers the growth-and-decline element (e). The general democracy-versus-totalitarianism comparison and fascism are not taught.

• SSWH10

  Covered

  Analyze the causes and effects of exploration and expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 11 · The Triangular Trade
  • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books (the destruction of the Mesoamerican codices)
  • · Ep 15 · From Sacred to Commodity
  • · Ep 3 · Food of the Gods (cacao as Maya/Aztec currency and sacrament)
  • · Ep 12 · The Sacred Plant (Aztec governance of pulque)
  • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution

  Note: Element (b) the Columbian Exchange and element (d) the Transatlantic Slave Trade's effects on Africa and the colonies are taught directly, through the commodities and societies (Maya, Aztec) that conquest remade.

• SSWH16

  Covered

  Analyze the rise of nationalism and worldwide imperialism.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 2 · Who Grows the Tea (colonial and plantation labour)
  • · Ep 5 · Whose Knowledge Is It
  • · Ep 6 · Kava Governs
  • · Ep 17 · The Opium Wars
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
  • · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
  • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
  • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
  • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only

  Note: Element (b) imperialism in Africa and Asia and the influence of geography and natural resources is the cash-crop story the whole series tells, and element (c) anti-imperial resistance names the Opium Wars, which the drug-history curriculum teaches in depth.

• SSWH14b

  Partially covered

  Identify the causes and results of the revolutions in England (1689), United States (1776), France (1789), Haiti (1791), and Latin America (1808-1825).

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom
  • · Ep 11 · The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James)
  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: this element (under SSWH14, Analyze the Age of Revolutions) names "Haiti (1791)" explicitly, and the Haitian Revolution is taught in real depth — through the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty. The England, United States, France, and Latin American revolutions are not the focus.

• SSWH20

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate an understanding of the global social, economic, and political impact of the Cold War and decolonization from 1945 to 1989.

  Covered by

  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 9 · What winning cost: shock therapy

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (d) opposition movements to existing political systems is worked in real depth for one case — Poland's Solidarność, martial law, and the 1989 negotiated exit. The arms race, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Asian/African decolonization are not taught.

• SSWH21

  Partially covered

  Examine change and continuity in the world since the 1960s.

  Covered by

  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 9 · What winning cost: shock therapy
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (b) the breakup of the Soviet bloc is taught through Poland's negotiated exit from communism and its shock-therapy price. The Khrushchev/Gorbachev reforms, the wider Soviet breakup, and the terrorism and women-leaders elements are not taught.

• SSWH22

  Partially covered

  Analyze globalization in the contemporary world.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • Mexico: The Protection Contract, and the Trade Deal That Came for It

  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
  • · Mexico, Lesson 7 · Mexico rewrites its labor law, and the 68-year gap that explains why
  • · Mexico, Lesson 10 · The Rapid Response Mechanism: an international labor rule with teeth
  • · Mexico, Lesson 12 · The limits, honestly: the cases the United States lost

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (b) global economic connections and multinational corporations are taught through commodity value chains and the NAFTA→USMCA trade order. The UN/OPEC/WTO institutional focus and the environmental-treaty element are not taught.

• SSUSH11

  Covered

  Examine connections between the rise of big business, the growth of labor unions, and technological innovations.

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 4 · Two ideas about who a union is for: the Knights and the AFL
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 5 · Haymarket, 1886
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 6 · Homestead, Pullman, and the weapon that actually broke strikes

  Note: Element (e) — the origins, growth, influence, and tactics of labor unions including the American Federation of Labor — is exactly the unions course: the Knights and the AFL, Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman.

• SSUSH13

  Partially covered

  Evaluate efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World
  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 8 · The Triangle fire, 1911, and what it actually changed
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 6 · Homestead, Pullman (Eugene Debs and the socialist movement)
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 2 · The Jim Crow South: what people were fleeing
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 12 · The long shadow, and the return

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: Progressive-Era labor reform is taught through the Triangle fire and what it changed, and the institutionalization of Jim Crow (element c's context) is taught. The muckrakers, the women's-reform, and conservation elements are not the focus.

• SSUSH15

  Partially covered

  Analyze the origins and impact of U.S. involvement in World War I.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 4 · Routes and railroads: the three streams
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival: Chicago, Detroit, New York, and the Pacific Northwest
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 9 · Faith, family & mutual aid
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 8 · The Triangle fire, 1911, and what it actually changed
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 6 · Homestead, Pullman (Eugene Debs and the socialist movement)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (b) names "the origins of the Great Migration" and "socialist Eugene Debs," both taught in depth. The neutrality-to-engagement, submarine-warfare, and Fourteen Points content is not taught.

• SSUSH16

  Partially covered

  Investigate how political, economic, and cultural developments after WW I led to a shared national identity.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · Ep 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 6 · The Black press as engine: the Chicago Defender
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 7 · The Harlem Renaissance & the New Negro

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (b) the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition — its causes, rhetoric, and results) and element (e) the Harlem Renaissance are taught in depth. The Red Scare, consumerism, and radio/film elements are not taught.

• SSUSH18

  Partially covered

  Evaluate Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal as a response to the Great Depression and compare how governmental programs aided those in need.

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 9 · 1935: the year organizing became a right (the Wagner Act)
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 10 · The hole in the law: who the Wagner Act left out

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: one New Deal program is taught in real depth — the Wagner Act (the National Labor Relations Act), what it created and who it deliberately excluded. The Social Security, relief-recovery-reform, and Eleanor Roosevelt elements are not taught.

• SSUSH21

  Partially covered

  Analyze U.S. international and domestic policies including their influences on technological advancements and social changes during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World
  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 16 · The colour bar: unions' own history of exclusion
  • · The History of Unions, Lesson 17 · Randolph to Memphis: the labor half of the civil-rights movement
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (d) civil-rights groups and their tactics are taught from the labor angle most curricula skip — A. Philip Randolph to Memphis, and the unions' own colour bar. The specific King texts, Cesar Chavez, and the Cold War/Vietnam elements are not taught.

• SSWG1

  Covered

  Explain why physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, climate, and natural resources act as contributing factors to world settlement patterns.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
  • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
  • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
  • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
  • · Ep 10 · Karst Limestone and Bourbon
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, assess a producing country's climate viability and defend the assessment

  Note: Element (h) — the spatial distribution of natural resources and how it impacts global settlement — is the Commodity Map's method: climate, soil, and resources deciding where commodities grow, and the trade and settlement that follow.

• SSWG5

  Covered

  Analyze human interactions with the world's environments.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
  • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
  • · Ep 10 · Karst Limestone and Bourbon
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, assess a producing country's climate viability and defend the assessment
  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · Ep 6 · Islands Under Pressure
  • · Ep 8 · Beer Geography Is Shifting

  Note: Element (e) — how global trade systems impact environmental sustainability, with the standard's own example "plantation farming in Africa and Central/South America" — is the commodity curriculum exactly, and element (c) industrialization and natural-resource management is taught through the cash-crop systems and published climate forecasts.

• SSWG6

  Covered

  Examine the spatial distribution of major economic systems and analyze the role geography plays in economic development.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
  • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
  • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
  • · Ep 18 · Bolivia's Bet (Bolivia's legal coca model against U.S.-funded eradication)
  • · Ep 18 · The Balloon Effect
  • · Ep 17 · Where the Poppy Grows (Afghanistan and the Golden Crescent)
  • · Ep 16 · The Justice Gap

  Note: Element (b) primary, secondary, and tertiary activities (resource extraction to services) is the value chain and the smile curve, and element (e) the impact of trade across international borders — including the standard's named illegal drug trade — is taught through the commodity chains and the War on Drugs.

• SSWG3

  Partially covered

  Evaluate how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the earth's surface.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • Mexico: The Protection Contract, and the Trade Deal That Came for It

  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
  • · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
  • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
  • · Mexico, Lesson 7 · Mexico rewrites its labor law, and the 68-year gap that explains why
  • · Mexico, Lesson 10 · The Rapid Response Mechanism: an international labor rule with teeth
  • · Mexico, Lesson 12 · The limits, honestly: the cases the United States lost

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (c) post-colonial legacies and element (d) organizations of global power (the standard names USMCA) are touched through how colonial patterns persist and how the NAFTA→USMCA order works. The general political-boundary and sovereignty content is not taught.

• SSWG4

  Partially covered

  Assess the characteristics, spatial distribution, and migration of human populations on the earth's surface.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 4 · Routes and railroads: the three streams
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival: Chicago, Detroit, New York, and the Pacific Northwest
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 9 · Faith, family & mutual aid
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (c) push-and-pull migration factors and migration's impact are taught in depth through the Great Migration. The demographic-model (a) and natal-policy (b) elements are not taught.

• SSEIN1

  Partially covered

  Explain the benefits of international trade and the role of trade barriers.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · The Commodity Map itself, every episode pinned at its origin
  • · The Growing Belts map, production regions by latitude band and country
  • · Ep 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 3 · The Cacao Tree and the Narrowest Belt
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (b) how trade barriers create costs and benefits to consumers and producers is taught in depth (the U.S. sugar program's quotas, tariffs, and price supports), and who benefits and loses from trade is the series' spine. Comparative advantage (element a) is not taught as a formal term.

• SSEF3

  Partially covered

  Analyze how economic systems influence the choices of individuals, businesses, and governments.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
  • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
  • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the market-versus-non-market comparison is taught directly and at length — reciprocity economies against market economies. Georgia's element (a) frames the systems as command/market/mixed, and the courses teach the traditional/reciprocity contrast rather than command economies.

• SSEMI2

  Partially covered

  Explain how the law of demand, the law of supply, and prices work to determine production and distribution in a market economy.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 1 · Price Shocks and Why You Keep Buying
  • · Ep 4 · From Luxury to the Cheapest Calorie

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: taught through real commodity markets — a supply shock moving world coffee prices and why inelastic demand absorbs the spike. It is not a general supply-and-demand-graph unit.

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 Georgia mathematics standard.
• Science — Georgia's own GSE Science (NOT NGSS), deferred not denied. We verified that Georgia's science standards are the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Science — Georgia's own, NOT the NGSS. We did not fetch and transcribe them this pass, and our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Georgia carries no science claim here. The climate-and-resources content the NGSS states pick up through HS-ESS3-1 maps instead to Georgia social studies (World Geography SSWG1 and SSWG5, World History SSWH16). Georgia's high-school Environmental Science standards are the candidate home for a future pass.
• American Government/Civics standards checked and rejected. SSCG2 (the political-philosophy genealogy — the Magna Carta through Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu, as named texts), SSCG9 (the impeachment and removal process), and SSCG11 (the federal bureaucracy, its departments and agencies, and the Cabinet) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
• Economics — the personal-finance course, macroeconomics, and the market-structure standards. The personal-finance standards (SSEPF1-10), macroeconomics (SSEMA1-3 — GDP, the Federal Reserve, fiscal policy), the microeconomic circular-flow and market-structure standards (SSEMI1, SSEMI3), the scarcity and rational-decision standards (SSEF1, SSEF2, SSEF4), and the exchange-rate standard (SSEIN2) were checked and are not taught. We claim the international-trade and economic-systems standards where the lessons land.
• World and U.S. history beyond the mapped standards. Georgia's SSWH and SSUSH are full surveys. This catalog teaches world and U.S. history in specific places — exploration and the Columbian Exchange, imperialism and the Opium Wars, the Haitian Revolution, the Gilded Age unions, the Great Migration, Prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance, the Wagner Act, and Poland's exit from communism — not as surveys, so the remaining ancient/medieval, world-war, and U.S.-survey standards are not claimed.
• The direct-democracy tools SSCG17e names — Georgia does not have the initiative. Georgia's own SSCG17e lists "the initiative, referendum, and recall" as limitations citizens may exercise on state and local government. But Georgia has NO statewide citizen initiative: the flagship teaches that absence and the legislative-referral path (a two-thirds vote of each house, then voter ratification) honestly, rather than describing a tool Georgia does not provide. So the standard is claimed (partial) for what Georgia's civics actually is, not padded to look like a direct-democracy state.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Georgia's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Georgia claims here.