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South Dakota standards alignment
Designed for high school. Below is every South Dakotastandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.
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- 29
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- partially covered
- 1
- frameworks
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- We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Learn.WitUS against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by South Dakota's education authority or by anyone else.
- Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
- Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
- We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.
South Dakota · Social Studies
South Dakota Social Studies Standards — 9th-12th Grade United States Government/American Civics
South Dakota Social Studies Standards, adopted April 17, 2023 · 9-12 United States Government/American Civics · South Dakota Department of Education (SD DOE) / South Dakota Board of Education Standards · retrieved 2026-07-19
South Dakota's 9th-12th grade United States Government/American Civics course is the anchor for the South Dakota Civics flagship. South Dakota writes its own social studies standards (adopted April 17, 2023), and this course is content-bearing: its anchor 9-12.C.17 is entirely about South Dakota and Native American government and politics — a genuine 1:1 home for South Dakota's own state, local, and tribal government — while 9-12.C.5-7 host the general federal civics ladder, 9-12.C.16 hosts elections, participation, and media literacy, and 9-12.C.13 hosts two market-economics indicators. Transcribed verbatim from the SD DOE 2023 document (see the file header for the provenance note). The founding-philosophy, primary-source-reading, slavery, Civil War, Progressivism, and foreign-policy content that fills much of this course is published as loudly in notClaimed as the claims below.
Read the source document →9-12.C.17.B
CoveredThe student explains the structure of the South Dakota state government, the function of its branches, and the requirements and responsibilities of elected officials based on the current South Dakota Constitution.
Covered by
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 2 · The three branches, and South Dakota's plural executive
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 3 · South Dakota's courts: merit selection for the Supreme Court, elected circuit judges
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 4 · How a bill becomes a South Dakota law (and how voters do it directly)
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 1 · South Dakota's constitution and the first citizen initiative in America (1898)
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in South Dakota (the initiative and referendum)
Note: The flagship's primary home: South Dakota's own state government is taught in depth — the 1889 constitution, the 35-district Legislature (a 35-seat Senate and a 70-seat House, each district electing one senator and two representatives), the plural executive (a joint-ticket Governor and Lieutenant Governor with a separately elected Attorney General, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Commissioner of School and Public Lands), and the merit-selected-then-retained Supreme Court.
9-12.C.17.C
CoveredThe student explains the structure of the local government in whose jurisdiction the school is located.
Covered by
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local and tribal government in South Dakota: 66 counties, townships, and the nine tribes
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in South Dakota
- · 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
Note: South Dakota local government is taught as South Dakota's own: its 66 counties, the organized civil townships that survive across much of the eastern part of the state, and cities and towns — and the general layer of special districts and boards people forget.
9-12.C.17.D
CoveredThe student explains the election process at the state and local levels of government in South Dakota, including the importance of frequent and fair elections.
Covered by
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in South Dakota: the initiative and referendum, absentee voting, and voter ID
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in South Dakota
Note: South Dakota's state and local elections are taught as South Dakota's — its first-in-the-nation citizen initiative and referendum, no-excuse absentee voting, and the photo-ID request at the polls — with the standing advice to confirm current rules with the Secretary of State.
9-12.C.17.E
CoveredThe student explains the constitutions, structure, and function of various tribal governments within South Dakota, including the nine federally recognized tribes of South Dakota.
Covered by
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local and tribal government in South Dakota: 66 counties, townships, and the nine tribes
Note: A distinctive South Dakota civics topic taught directly: the constitutions, structure, and function of the nine federally recognized tribal governments within South Dakota.
9-12.C.17.F
CoveredThe student explains the relationship, both historical and at present, between various levels of government within South Dakota, including between federal, state, local, and tribal governments.
Covered by
- South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works
- State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local and tribal government in South Dakota: 66 counties, townships, and the nine tribes
- · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in South Dakota
Note: The federal-state-local-tribal relationship the standard names is taught through federalism (why power is split among levels) and the South Dakota tribal-and-local-government lesson.
9-12.C.6.A
CoveredThe student explains how the Constitution divides government power between the federal, state, and local levels, and names examples of local governments such as county, township, town, city, municipality, ward, etc.
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?
- · 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
Note: The division of power among federal, state, and local levels is taught directly through federalism, and the local-government layer (counties, townships, cities, special districts) is taught by name.
9-12.C.6.B
CoveredThe student explains the distinctions between expressed, implied, concurrent, and reserved powers, and provides examples of each.
Covered by
- · 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
Note: Near-1:1 with the powers taxonomy: enumerated/expressed, implied (the Necessary and Proper Clause, via McCulloch v. Maryland), concurrent, and reserved (the Tenth Amendment) powers are each taught with examples.
9-12.C.6.D
CoveredThe student explains how the separation of powers prevents tyranny from the federal government by dividing legislative, executive, and judicial power into three separate branches.
Covered by
- US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
- US Civics 101: How American Government Works
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
- · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
9-12.C.6.H
CoveredThe student explains the different roles, responsibilities, and powers of each house of Congress.
Covered by
- US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
- US Civics 101: How American Government Works
- · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
- · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
Note: Article I's two houses and their distinct roles, responsibilities, and powers are taught directly.
9-12.C.6.I
CoveredThe student explains roles, responsibilities, and powers of the Presidency.
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
9-12.C.6.K
CoveredThe student explains the role of the Electoral College in ensuring presidential candidates consider the rights and interests of people from diverse geographic settings.
Covered by
- · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
- · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists
Note: The Electoral College's mechanics AND its original purpose (why it exists) are both taught.
9-12.C.6.L
CoveredThe student explains the roles and responsibilities of the Judiciary.
Covered by
- · 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 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
9-12.C.6.N
CoveredThe student defines the power of judicial review and explains how the Supreme Court’s ruling in Marbury v. Madison claimed this prerogative in terms Alexander Hamilton outlined in Federalist 78.
Covered by
- · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)
Note: Judicial review is taught by name through Marbury v. Madison. Partial only on the Federalist 78 reading, which the catalog does not assign as a primary source — the doctrine itself is squarely taught.
9-12.C.6.P
CoveredThe student explains the checks and balances each branch possesses to resist tyranny in the other two branches.
Covered by
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
9-12.C.6.Q
CoveredThe student explains the process for creating a law at the federal level.
Covered by
- How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
- US Civics 101: How American Government Works
- · How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal) · the whole course, introduction to public law
- · US Civics 101, Lesson 3 · How a bill becomes a law
Note: How a bill becomes a federal law is taught end to end — committees through veto override — in a dedicated course.
9-12.C.5.C
CoveredThe student explains the structure and function of the Articles of Confederation and the reasons for its relatively powerless design.
Covered by
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation
9-12.C.5.D
CoveredThe student explains the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and their relationship to the Constitutional Convention.
Covered by
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation
9-12.C.5.M
CoveredThe student explains how federalism prevents tyranny by dividing governing power among many levels of governments.
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?
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
9-12.C.5.N
CoveredThe student explains how the enumeration of powers prevents tyranny by limiting what governments can do to a specified written list.
Covered by
- · 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
9-12.C.5.O
CoveredThe student reads and discusses the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Covered by
- · 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)
Note: The Constitution is read and analyzed article by article, and the Bill of Rights is taught as a document, in the constitution course.
9-12.C.7.A
CoveredThe student explains the ways in which the American people may amend the Constitution as outlined in Article V, including the reasons for making changes difficult but not impossible.
Covered by
- · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments
Note: The Article V amendment procedure, and why the bar is deliberately high, are taught directly.
9-12.C.7.C
CoveredThe student explains how the First Amendment guarantees that individuals can practice their religious beliefs without fear of persecution by the government.
Covered by
- · 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
Note: First Amendment religious freedom is taught both as part of the Bill of Rights overview and as an applied right (Know Your Rights).
9-12.C.7.E
CoveredThe student explains how the First Amendment guarantees the freedom to speak, write, petition, and peacefully assemble without fear of persecution by the government.
Covered by
- · 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: Speech, press, petition, and assembly are taught as rules a student can apply — including where they end — in Know Your Rights.
9-12.C.7.G
CoveredThe student explains the Fifth and Seventh Amendments’ guarantees of due process and of trial by a jury of one’s fellow citizens, respectively, including why these legal safeguards are essential to securing justice.
Covered by
- · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
- · 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
Note: Trial by a jury of one's fellow citizens is an entire course (Jury Duty & the Courts), and the due-process protections are taught in Know Your Rights.
9-12.C.15.B
CoveredThe student explains the legal meaning of “citizen” in the United States, birthright citizenship as enacted through the Fourteenth Amendment, the legal process for becoming a citizen, and the responsibilities, rights, and privileges of citizenship at the different levels of government.
Covered by
- · 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: The legal meaning of citizen, birthright citizenship through the Fourteenth Amendment, naturalization, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship are each taught directly.
9-12.C.15.C
CoveredThe student names the responsibilities citizens have at the local, state, and federal levels of government.
Covered by
- · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
9-12.C.16.B
CoveredThe student explains the election process at the federal level for president, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, based on South Dakota law.
Covered by
- · 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
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in South Dakota: the initiative and referendum, absentee voting, and voter ID
Note: Election mechanics (registration, primaries, voting methods, counting and certifying) are taught generally, and South Dakota's own election law is taught in the flagship — the standard's explicit "based on South Dakota law" anchor.
9-12.C.16.D
CoveredThe student explains how search engines, traditional media, and social media companies and users can influence public opinion in an election.
Covered by
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- Spotting Misleading Marketing
- · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
- · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
- · Ep 1 · Reading a Coffee Ad
- · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate Ad
- · Ep 8 · Reading a Craft Beer Label
- · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
- · Ep 16 · Reefer Madness and the Language of Fear
- · Ep 18 · Just Say No
- · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
- · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
- · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 8 · Misleading statistics and charts
- · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 4 · Fake urgency, fake scarcity, and fake discounts
Note: Squarely met by the BVC media-literacy method: reading a message from any source (search, traditional, or social media) for credibility, bias, omission, misleading statistics, and recurring fallacy is modelled and practiced across the catalog.
9-12.C.16.E
CoveredThe student identifies the ways in which citizens engage in politics beyond voting, including through political parties, interest groups, meeting with elected officials, petitions, attending public meetings and hearings, writing, speaking, and assembling.
Covered by
- US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
- How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
- How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
- South Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works
- · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
- · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
- · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
- · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 8 · Get involved where you live in South Dakota
Note: The standard's own examples — meeting officials, petitions, public meetings and hearings, writing and speaking — are each taught as practice: showing up at the level where an issue is decided, tracking a live bill, helping a campaign or ballot measure, and getting involved in South Dakota.
9-12.C.17.A
Partially coveredThe student tells the story of how South Dakota became a state.
Covered by
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 1 · South Dakota's constitution and the first citizen initiative in America (1898)
- · South Dakota Civics, Lesson 6 · Elections in South Dakota (the initiative and referendum)
What we do and don't cover: Partial: the flagship teaches South Dakota's 1889 constitution and the direct democracy it soon adopted (the 1898 first-in-the-nation initiative and referendum); the fuller narrative of how South Dakota became a state is background context, not a taught unit.
9-12.C.7.I
Partially coveredThe student explains the meaning and significance of the 9th and 10th amendments.
Covered by
- · 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
What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Tenth Amendment's reserved powers are taught by name in the powers taxonomy; the Ninth Amendment's unenumerated-rights principle is not a focus of the catalog.
9-12.C.16.C
Partially coveredThe student explains the process of campaigning for elected office, including fundraising from large donors, small dollar donors, political action committees (PACs), and political parties.
Covered by
- How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
- How to Run for Office: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
- · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
- · How to Run for Office · the whole course (eligibility, ballot access, money rules, and after Election Day)
What we do and don't cover: Partial: campaigning for office, volunteering, donating, and the legal money guardrails are taught (How to Help a Campaign; How to Run for Office); the detailed large-donor / small-dollar / PAC fundraising typology is touched, not taught in depth.
9-12.C.13.A
Partially coveredThe student explains the basic concepts of supply and demand and their effects on price.
Covered by
- · 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: the commodity courses teach price elasticity of demand and price shocks explicitly (inelastic coffee demand under a price spike) — a genuine piece of supply and demand and its effect on price — but not the full supply-and-demand model.
9-12.C.13.B
Partially coveredThe student explains how the American economy has historically been characterized as free market or capitalist, meaning that the laws allow individuals to possess more goods or currency than they need to survive; and to invest, produce, distribute, and buy and sell goods and services by making their own agreements with one another.
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 catalog contrasts market economies with traditional/reciprocity economies at length, teaching what a market (free-enterprise) economy is; it does not teach the specific historical framing of American capitalism this standard names.
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:
- The founding-philosophy and primary-source-reading core of the civics course (9-12.C.2-4, most of 9-12.C.5) — not claimed. The bulk of South Dakota's civics course is a close reading of founding thought and documents: 9-12.C.2 (the modern way of life), 9-12.C.3 (Greek, Roman, and English influences, the Magna Carta and Mayflower Compact, Locke's Second Treatise), 9-12.C.4 (the Declaration of Independence clause by clause), and the political-philosophy indicators in 9-12.C.5 (human nature, majority tyranny, Montesquieu, the Federalist essays 9/10/51/78 as assigned reading). The catalog teaches the Constitution's structure and the federal ladder, but not this assigned-primary-source, natural-rights-philosophy curriculum, so we do not claim it.
- The Second Amendment (9-12.C.7.F) — not claimed. 9-12.C.7.F is entirely about the Second Amendment. The catalog's Know Your Rights course teaches the First and Fourth Amendments as applied rights but not the Second, so this indicator is not claimed. The gap is in the course, not the standard.
- Slavery, the Civil War, civil rights, Progressivism, and the governing-institutions/policy history (9-12.C.8-14) — deferred, not denied. 9-12.C.8-9 (slavery and the Civil War through Douglass, Lincoln's Peoria and Cooper-Union-era speeches, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address), 9-12.C.10 (civil rights through the Declaration of Sentiments, Niagara's Declaration of Principles, Brown v. Board, and King's "I Have a Dream"), 9-12.C.11 (20th-century Progressivism), 9-12.C.12 (governing institutions and federal-state cases), 9-12.C.13's policy and Supreme-Court-case indicators, and 9-12.C.14 (foreign policy) are document-and-case-driven history standards. The catalog's Great Migration, History of Unions, and commodity-history courses TOUCH some of this content (the Jim Crow South, poll taxes, the Reconstruction amendments), but they do not deliver it as this civics course's assigned readings and case lists, so — verbatim-or-nothing on coverage — we defer these rather than claim a civics match we cannot make cleanly.
- The regime-comparison capstone (9-12.C.18) — not claimed. 9-12.C.18 compares the American experiment to monarchy, aristocracy, direct democracy, Progressivism, totalitarianism, communism, socialism, fascism, oligarchy, and imperialism, and to the French Revolution. The catalog teaches American constitutional structure, not a comparative-regime capstone, so we do not claim it.
- The civics skills standard 9-12.C.1 — not separately claimed. 9-12.C.1 asks students to identify the state's own current officeholders and local tribal leaders (9-12.C.1.A) and to write informative and persuasive essays on American government (9-12.C.1.B-C). The flagship teaches the structure of South Dakota's offices and civic writing is practiced, but we do not transcribe or separately claim this skills standard (its officeholder list is a long, roster-dependent enumeration we will not cite verbatim as a fixed standard text).
- English/Language Arts — deferred (South Dakota's ELA is its own document, Common-Core-derived). South Dakota adopted the Common Core in 2010 but maintains its own English Language Arts standards, so the shared Common Core ELA file is not blind-aliased; the rule is compare-before-aliasing. South Dakota's own ELA reading/writing standards were not fetched-and-verified this pass, so we defer them rather than assume the shared text still matches South Dakota's printed codes. The catalog's source-evaluation and media-literacy work is instead claimed against South Dakota's own civics media-literacy standard, 9-12.C.16.D.
- Mathematics — nothing. This catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no South Dakota mathematics standard (South Dakota's math standards, like its ELA, are South Dakota's own Common-Core-derived document).
- Science — deferred (South Dakota's 2015 science standards are NGSS-based but its own document). The South Dakota Science Standards (2015) are NGSS-based but South Dakota's own document, so the shared NGSS file is not blind-aliased and the rule is compare-before-aliasing. The one Earth-science-adjacent claim the catalog could support (climate and resources shaping human activity) is deferred until South Dakota's own science document is fetched and its performance-expectation text is confirmed to match the shared NGSS wording.
- South Dakota's other social-studies disciplines (World History, U.S. History, World Geography, Economics) — deferred, not denied. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and migration history and its Commodity Map geography WOULD map to South Dakota's 9-12 World History (9-12.WH), U.S. History (9-12.USH), World Geography (9-12.WG), and Economics (9-12.E) standards, as they do in other states. We mapped the United States Government/American Civics course this pass (the flagship's home) and DEFER the history, geography, and economics disciplines to a later pass rather than claim standards we have not yet transcribed and verified.
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