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.9.e

  Covered

  Analyze the structure, powers, and functions of the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government, including checks on the other branches of government; powers of the judicial branch such as those to interpret laws and decide the constitutionality of laws; nomination and appointment process of federal judges, origin of judicial review; and significance of stare decisis.

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

  Note: The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch teaches every element: the judiciary's structure and independence, judicial review through Marbury v. Madison, the nomination and confirmation of federal judges, and how precedent (stare decisis) works and expands rights over time.

• C.9.j

  Covered

  Explain the historical connections between Civil Law, the Napoleonic Code, and Louisiana's system of laws.

  Covered by

  • Louisiana Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 1 · Louisiana's defining difference: a civil-law state

  Note: This is Louisiana Civics, Lesson 1 exactly: Louisiana as the only civil-law state, its Civil Code descended from the French and Spanish (Napoleonic) tradition, and the distinctive legal vocabulary (parishes, usufruct, forced heirship) that follows from it.

• C.10.a

  Covered

  Explain how the U.S. Constitution protects individual liberties and rights.

  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

  Note: Know Your Rights teaches what the Bill of Rights protects, the landmark cases as applicable rules, and when government may and may not limit those rights.

• 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.11.b

  Covered

  Describe U.S. citizenship requirements and the naturalization process in the United States.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · 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
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship

  Note: Citizenship & Naturalization Basics teaches exactly this: who is a citizen (birthright and the 14th Amendment), the naturalization eligibility and process, and the rights and responsibilities that follow.

• C.11.f

  Covered

  Evaluate the purpose, structure, and function of the Electoral College, including how it aims to ensure representation for less populated states.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists

  Note: Voting & Elections 101 teaches both halves the expectation names: how the Electoral College works, and why it exists — including its aim of representation for less populated states.

• C.11.k

  Covered

  Describe local and parish governments in Louisiana, including police juries and home rule charters.

  Covered by

  • Louisiana Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 5 · Parishes: Louisiana's counties by another name
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 6 · Judges, voting, and how to take part

  Note: This is Louisiana Civics, Lesson 5 exactly: Louisiana's 64 parishes (not counties), the traditional Police Jury and the parish-president-and-council home-rule-charter alternative, and consolidated city-parish governments such as New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

• C.6

  Partially covered

  Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to: a. Analyze social studies content. b. Evaluate claims, counterclaims, and evidence. c. Compare and contrast multiple sources and accounts. d. Explain how the availability of sources affects historical interpretations.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story, Beckford (1790) against Equiano (1789) and Mary Prince (1831) on the same plantation world
  • · Ep 3 · Two Ways of Seeing a Bean
  • · Ep 5 · Two Ways of Knowing
  • · Ep 18 · Whose Voice
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
  • · The Great Migration · every lesson carries a primary-source pointer to its real archive
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival (the Philadelphia “500% growth” claim, checked against the raw census figures it fails)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the curriculum models exactly this — evaluating claims and counterclaims, reading authors' differing accounts of the same events against each other (Whose Voice), and turning source availability into a limitations-of-evidence lesson. But sustained STUDENT-run source analysis is prompted (the Coffee project), not assessed course-wide.

• C.7

  Partially covered

  Construct and express claims that are supported with relevant evidence from primary and/or secondary sources, social studies content knowledge, and clear reasoning and explanations to: a. Demonstrate an understanding of social studies content. b. Compare and contrast content and viewpoints. c. Analyze causes and effects. d. Evaluate counterclaims.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, a 1,200-1,500 word research paper with a required counterargument section
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Coffee project's Option D asks for precisely this — an evidence-based argument with a required counterargument (counterclaim) section — but it is one optional project in one episode, not a course-wide writing program.

• C.8.a

  Partially covered

  Describe the purpose of government and competing ideas about the role of government in a society.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the purpose of government is taught head-on (US Civics 101, Lesson 1). The 'competing ideas about the role of government' the expectation also names are not developed as their own content.

• 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.a

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast the powers and responsibilities of local, state, tribal (including the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe), and federal governments, and explain how each is financed, how they interact with each other, and how citizens interact with and within each of them.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What

  • · 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, State & Local Government, Lesson 5 · What LOCAL government handles (and why it VARIES)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 7 · The governments you forget: special districts & boards

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the local, state, and federal levels and how power is divided among them are taught in full (State vs Federal Power; US, State & Local Government). TRIBAL government — which the expectation names, listing four Louisiana tribes — and government finance are not taught.

• 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.

• C.9.f

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the reasoning for Supreme Court decisions and their political, social, and economic effects, including Marbury v. Madison (1803); McCulloch v. Maryland (1819); Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831); Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857); Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); Schenck v. United States (1919); Korematsu v. United States (1944); Brown v. Board of Education (1954); Baker v. Carr (1962); Engel v. Vitale (1962); Gideon v. Wainwright (1963); Miranda v. Arizona (1966); Loving v. Virginia (1967); Tinker v. Des Moines (1969); New York Times Co. v. United States (1971); Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972); Roe v. Wade (1973); United States v. Nixon (1974); Shaw v. Reno (1993); United States v. Lopez (1995); Bush v. Gore (2000); McDonald v. Chicago (2010); Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010).

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works
  • 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
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: several of the listed cases are taught as rules a student can apply — Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Tinker v. Des Moines among them — and how precedent works. The full landmark list the expectation names (Dred Scott, Plessy, Korematsu, Roe, Citizens United, and more) is not covered case by case.

• C.9.i

  Partially covered

  Analyze continuity and change in the Louisiana State Constitution over time, and compare and contrast the Louisiana State Constitutions and the U.S. Constitution.

  Covered by

  • Louisiana Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 2 · The Constitution of 1974 and the three branches
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a Louisiana law

  What we do and don't cover: This is one of Louisiana's own-government expectations, and the flagship lands on it: the Constitution of 1974 (Louisiana's eleventh), its three branches and plural executive, and how Louisiana amends its constitution. Partial because a systematic comparison across all of Louisiana's earlier constitutions and clause-by-clause against the U.S. Constitution is not the lesson's aim.

• C.10.c

  Partially covered

  Evaluate restrictions and expansions of civil liberties and civil rights in the United States and the role of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government in related events and developments over time, including the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); the Espionage and Sedition Acts; Schenck v. United States (1919); the Nineteenth Amendment; Executive Order 9066; Executive Order 10730; Brown v. Board of Education (1954); the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the Twenty-Fourth Amendment; and Twenty-Sixth Amendment.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 2 · The Jim Crow South: what people were fleeing
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 12 · The long shadow, and the return
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the denial and expansion of civil rights is taught in depth through the Great Migration — the Jim Crow South people fled and the Black urban electorate and civil-rights politics the Migration created — and some rights cases as rules. The specific amendments and cases the expectation lists (the Reconstruction Amendments, Plessy, the Nineteenth Amendment, the 1964 and 1965 Acts) are not each covered.

• C.11.a

  Partially covered

  Analyze the duties and responsibilities of citizens in the United States, including paying taxes, serving on a jury, obeying the law, voting, and Selective Service registration.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the core duties are taught as practice — jury service (an entire course), voting and registration, and the responsibilities of citizenship. Paying taxes and Selective Service registration, which the expectation also names, are not taught.

• C.11.d

  Partially covered

  Explain rules governing campaign finance and spending and their effects on the outcomes of local, state, and federal elections.

  Covered by

  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide

  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: How to Help a Campaign teaches the campaign-finance rules from the participant's side — donating and volunteering lawfully within the guardrails. A systematic analysis of campaign-finance law and its effects on election outcomes is not taught.

• C.11.e

  Partially covered

  Explain election processes at the local, state, and federal levels, including qualifications and procedures for voting; qualifications and terms for offices; the primary system; public hearings and forums; petition, initiative, referendum, and recall; and amendments related to elections and voting.

  Covered by

  • Voting & Elections 101
  • Louisiana 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
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 3 · Louisiana's 'jungle primary' (the open primary)
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a Louisiana law
  • · Louisiana Civics, Lesson 6 · Judges, voting, and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: national and state election procedures are taught (registration through counting), and Louisiana's own primary is worked in depth — the 'jungle primary,' Louisiana's amendment-only path with no citizen initiative, and how Louisiana elects its judges and administers voting. The general petition/initiative/referendum/recall menu is taught as Louisiana's version (which lacks the initiative), not comparatively across states.

• C.12.b

  Partially covered

  Analyze the development, implementation, and consequences of U.S. foreign and domestic policies over time, including how U.S. policies are influenced by other countries and how they influence political debates.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · 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
  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · Ep 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: specific domestic and foreign policies and their consequences are analyzed in depth — the War on Drugs (including its foreign-policy arm and the balloon effect), the U.S. sugar program, and Prohibition. This is not a general survey of U.S. policy across the fields the expectation lists.

• C.12.d

  Partially covered

  Explain the origins and purpose of international organizations and agreements, including the United Nations, NATO, NAFTA, and USMCA; and analyze how the United States and member nations work to cooperate politically and economically.

  Covered by

  • Mexico: The Protection Contract, and the Trade Deal That Came for It

  • · 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: NAFTA and its successor the USMCA are taught in real depth from the labor side (the Rapid Response Mechanism and its limits). The United Nations and NATO the expectation also names are not taught.

• C.13.b

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast capitalism and socialism as economic systems.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • Poland: Solidarność, When a Union Brought Down a State

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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: two comparisons are taught — traditional (reciprocity) economies against market economies, directly and at length, and a communist workers' state against the independent union that unmade it (Poland, 1980-1989). A textbook capitalism-versus-socialism definition is not the frame.

• C.13.d

  Partially covered

  Analyze the role of government institutions in developing and implementing economic policies, and explain the effects of government policies on market outcomes, including both intended and unintended consequences.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the intended-and-unintended-consequences frame is worked through real policies — the U.S. sugar program (intended: stable prices; unintended: a multibillion-dollar consumer cost) and the War on Drugs (the balloon effect as an unintended-consequences lesson by name). It is not a general treatment of economic-policy institutions.

• C.13.g

  Partially covered

  Explain the effects of specialization and trade on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services for individuals, businesses, and societies.

  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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the effects of trade on production, distribution, and whole societies are the series' spine — who is paid what along commodity value chains, the commodity trap, and the growing belts that make regions specialize. The formal 'specialization and comparative advantage' vocabulary is not taught by name.

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.