Florida standards alignment

• SS.912.CG.1.4

  Covered

  Analyze how the ideals and principles expressed in the founding documents shape America as a constitutional republic.

  Covered by

  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation

• SS.912.CG.1.5

  Covered

  Explain how the U.S. Constitution and its amendments uphold the following political principles: checks and balances, consent of the governed, democracy, due process of law, federalism, individual rights, limited government, representative government, republicanism, rule of law and separation of powers.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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?

  Note: Separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism are taught head-on, and a dedicated course works why power is divided between state and nation.

• SS.912.CG.2.2

  Covered

  Explain the importance of political and civic participation to the success of the United States' constitutional republic.

  Covered by

  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works

  • · How to Help a Campaign · the whole course (volunteering, donating, canvassing, with the legal guardrails)
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 9 · Get involved where you live in Florida

• SS.912.CG.2.3

  Covered

  Explain the responsibilities of citizens at the local, state and national levels.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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)

  Note: Responsibilities are taught as practices — voting, jury service (an entire course), staying informed, paying taxes — at every level.

• SS.912.CG.2.7

  Covered

  Analyze the impact of civic engagement as a means of preserving or reforming institutions.

  Covered by

  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide

  • · How a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 9 · Get involved where you live in Florida
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes

  Note: Civic engagement is taught as practice: tracking a live bill, helping ballot measures and local causes, and showing up to reform the institutions you live under.

• SS.912.CG.2.11

  Covered

  Evaluate political communication for bias, factual accuracy, omission and emotional appeal.

  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

  • · Ep 1 · Reading a Coffee Ad
  • · Ep 2 · Reading a Tea Ad
  • · Ep 3 · Reading a Chocolate Ad
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (reading a text for what it leaves out)
  • · Ep 11 · Tiki and the Tropical Paradise
  • · Ep 15 · The Language of Doubt
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · 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)

  Note: Reading a message for bias, omission, and emotional appeal is the media-literacy method run in every episode — ads, labels, and campaign language read for what they leave out, and the fallacies named.

• SS.912.CG.3.2

  Covered

  Explain how the U.S. Constitution safeguards and limits individual rights.

  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, 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: Both halves: the Bill of Rights as a document, and when government may constitutionally limit rights (time-place-manner, incitement, school speech, reasonable suspicion).

• SS.912.CG.3.3

  Covered

  Analyze the structures, functions and processes of the legislative branch as described in Article I of the U.S. Constitution.

  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

• SS.912.CG.3.6

  Covered

  Explain expressed, implied, concurrent and reserved powers in the U.S. Constitution.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · 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: The powers taxonomy is taught by name — expressed/enumerated, implied (Necessary and Proper Clause), concurrent, and reserved (Tenth Amendment) — with McCulloch v. Maryland.

• SS.912.CG.3.7

  Covered

  Analyze the structures, functions and processes of the judicial branch as described in Article III of the U.S. Constitution.

  Covered by

  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · 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

• SS.912.CG.3.8

  Covered

  Describe the purpose and function of judicial review in the American constitutional government.

  Covered by

  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  Note: Judicial review is taught by name, through Marbury v. Madison.

• SS.912.CG.3.12

  Covered

  Analyze the concept of federalism in the United States and its role in establishing the relationship between the state and national governments.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided

  • · 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

• SS.912.CG.2.9

  Partially covered

  Explain the process and procedures of elections at the state and national levels.

  Covered by

  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • Voting & Elections 101

  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 7 · Elections in Florida: closed primaries, voter ID, and recently tightened mail voting
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 8 · The citizen initiative: putting an amendment on the ballot yourself
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lessons 1-3 · registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 7 · Counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 8 · Verify your own registration and rules
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 4 · The Electoral College: how it works
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 5 · Why the Electoral College exists

  What we do and don't cover: National election procedures are taught end to end (registration, primaries, voting methods, counting, the Electoral College) and Florida's own procedures are taught as Florida's (closed primaries, voter ID, the SB 90/SB 524 mail-ballot rules, the 29-day deadline). What is not attempted is a comprehensive survey of every other state's procedures.

• SS.912.CG.3.10

  Partially covered

  Analyze the levels and responsibilities of state and federal courts.

  Covered by

  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch

  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 4 · Florida's courts: merit selection + retention for the top courts
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The federal court system and Florida's own courts are both taught: Florida's split selection — merit selection plus retention for the appellate courts, nonpartisan elections for the trial courts. A full analysis of every level of both systems is not attempted.

• SS.912.CG.3.11

  Partially covered

  Evaluate how landmark Supreme Court decisions affect law, liberty and the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • 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
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent

  What we do and don't cover: Our Know Your Rights course teaches landmark rulings as applicable rules — Tinker, Brandenburg, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, Carpenter — and how precedent expands rights. Mapp v. Ohio is the direct overlap; the benchmark's own case list (Marbury, McCulloch, Dred Scott, Plessy, Brown, Gideon, Miranda, Korematsu, In re Gault, Nixon, Bakke, Hazelwood, Heller) is largely different.

• SS.912.CG.3.15

  Partially covered

  Explain how citizens are affected by the local, state and national governments.

  Covered by

  • Florida Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 1 · Florida's constitution: the 1968 rewrite and its many amendment paths
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 2 · The Constitution Revision Commission: Florida's once-in-20-years wildcard
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 3 · The three branches, and Florida's plural executive (Governor + Cabinet)
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 5 · How a bill becomes a Florida law
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 6 · Local government in Florida: 67 counties, charter vs. non-charter, and NO townships
  • · Florida Civics, Lesson 9 · Get involved where you live in Florida
  • · 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
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches

  What we do and don't cover: This is the flagship's home in the US Government course: Florida's own state structure (the 1968 constitution, the plural executive of Governor plus Cabinet, the CRC and 60% amendment rule) and Florida local government (67 counties, charter vs. non-charter, no townships) are taught in depth, alongside the federal branches. But the standard asks how citizens are affected across all three levels systematically, which is not fully assembled here.

• SS.912.W.4.12

  Covered

  Evaluate the scope and impact of the Columbian Exchange on Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 1 · The Coffee Belt: Where Coffee Grows and Why
  • · Ep 2 · The Tea Plant and Its Climate Zones
  • · Ep 3 · The Big Producers and the Cacao Varieties
  • · Ep 4 · From New Guinea to the New World

  Note: The Columbian Exchange is taught directly through the plants that moved — cacao, sugar, and the exchange of crops among the New World and the Old.

• SS.912.W.4.15

  Covered

  Explain the origins, developments, and impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade between West Africa and the Americas.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story (Equiano, 1789; Mary Prince, 1831)
  • · 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

  Note: The trans-Atlantic slave trade, the triangular trade, the Middle Passage, and the plantation economies it fed — with first-person accounts by formerly enslaved writers — are taught in depth.

• SS.912.W.6.6

  Covered

  Analyze the causes and effects of 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

  • · 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 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)

  Note: European imperialism upon indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia, and Oceania is analyzed through the commodities it moved, and how colonial patterns persist today.

• SS.912.W.8.5

  Partially covered

  Identify the factors that led to the decline and fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

  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: Poland's Solidarność is worked in real depth — a communist workers' state undone by the union it could not absorb, the 1989 negotiated end, and its shock-therapy price. The standard spans the whole Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union, which we do not survey.

• SS.912.W.9.6

  Partially covered

  Analyze the rise of regional trade blocs such as the European Union and NAFTA, and predict the impact of increased globalization in the 20th and 21st centuries.

  Covered by

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

  What we do and don't cover: NAFTA, which the standard names, is taught from the labor side through its USMCA successor, and globalization's winners and losers are traced through real commodity chains. The European Union and the standard's predictive task are not covered.

• SS.912.A.3.9

  Covered

  Examine causes, course, and consequences of the labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  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
  • · 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)

  Note: This is the History of Unions course's core era: the Knights and the AFL, Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman, Eugene Debs, and the 1911 Triangle fire.

• SS.912.A.5.7

  Partially covered

  Examine the freedom movements that advocated civil rights for African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and women.

  Covered by

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

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 11 · Politics & civil rights
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The Black urban vote the Great Migration created and the labor half of the civil-rights movement (Randolph to Memphis) are taught as agency and political change. The Latino, Asian, and women's freedom movements the standard also names are not this catalog's subject.

• SS.912.A.7.5

  Partially covered

  Compare nonviolent and violent approaches utilized by groups (African Americans, women, Native Americans, Hispanics) to achieve civil rights.

  Covered by

  • The History of Unions: America and the World

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: The labor half of the civil-rights movement — Randolph to Memphis, and unions' own colour bar — is taught. A full comparison of nonviolent and violent approaches across all the groups the standard names is not attempted.

• SS.912.A.7.14

  Partially covered

  Review the role of the United States as a participant in the global economy (trade agreements, international competition, impact on American labor, environmental concerns).

  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: The impact on American labor of a major trade agreement, which the standard names, is taught in depth — NAFTA→USMCA, the Rapid Response Mechanism and its limits. The broader survey of U.S. participation in the global economy is not.

• SS.912.AA.1.3

  Covered

  Analyze the reciprocal roles of the Triangular Trade routes between Africa and the western hemisphere, Africa and Europe, and Europe and the western hemisphere.

  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 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution

  Note: The triangular trade and the Middle Passage are taught directly through the sugar and rum commodity chains that ran it.

• SS.912.AA.3.9

  Covered

  Examine the various factors that led to and the consequences of the Great Migration.

  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 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

  Note: The Great Migration is an entire course: the Jim Crow South people fled, the routes and arrival cities, the Black press that pulled them north, and the urban political power it created.

• SS.912.AA.2.13

  Partially covered

  Explain how the rise of cash crops accelerated the growth of the domestic slave trade in the United States.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · Ep 4 · The Sugar Islands
  • · Ep 4 · From New Guinea to the New World
  • · Ep 11 · Waste-Product Economics

  What we do and don't cover: The cash-crop plantation economy and its dependence on enslaved labor is taught in depth through sugar and rum. The specifically DOMESTIC (interstate) U.S. slave trade the benchmark names is not the catalog's focus — its lens is the Atlantic and Caribbean plantation world.

• SS.912.AA.3.10

  Partially covered

  Describe the Harlem Renaissance and examine contributions from African American artists, musicians and writers and their lasting influence on American culture.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

  • · 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: The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro, and the Black press as an engine of the Migration, are taught. A survey of the specific artists, musicians, and writers the benchmark asks for is touched, not completed.

• SS.912.G.3.2

  Covered

  Use geographic terms and tools to explain how weather and climate influence the natural character of a place.

  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: This is the Growing Belts map: climate and latitude deciding where each commodity can grow, and climate change redrawing that map.

• SS.912.G.4.2

  Partially covered

  Use geographic terms and tools to analyze the push/pull factors contributing to human migration within and among places.

  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

  What we do and don't cover: Taught at case-study depth through the Great Migration — the push of the Jim Crow South and the pull of the Black press and northern jobs. Not a general treatment of migration.

• SS.912.G.4.4

  Partially covered

  Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of issues in globalization.

  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

  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Globalization is analyzed through real commodity case studies — who captures value along the chain, and the commodity trap — rather than as a general survey.

• SS.912.E.1.3

  Covered

  Compare how the various economic systems (traditional, market, command, mixed) answer the questions: (1) What to produce?; (2) How to produce?; and (3) For whom to produce?

  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

  Note: Traditional (reciprocity) and market economies — both named in the benchmark — are contrasted directly and at length through the kava and forest-wisdom episodes.

• SS.912.E.3.3

  Covered

  Discuss the effect of barriers to trade and why nations sometimes erect barriers to trade or establish free trade zones.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

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

  Note: The U.S. sugar program's import quotas, tariffs, and price supports are worked in detail as a trade barrier, with its consumer cost, alongside the benefits and costs of trade along real chains.

• SS.912.E.1.4

  Partially covered

  Define supply, demand, quantity supplied, and quantity demanded; graphically illustrate situations that would cause changes in each, and demonstrate how the equilibrium price of a product is determined by the interaction of supply and demand in the market place.

  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: Price elasticity of demand is taught explicitly — inelastic coffee demand absorbing a sharp price spike — but this is one concept in context, not the full supply-and-demand graphing the benchmark requires.

• ELA.10.R.3.4

  Covered

  Analyze an author's use of rhetoric in a text.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · Blood-Sweetened Luxury
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
  • · Ep 16 · Three Sentences, Three Policies
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
  • · Ep 16 · Reefer Madness and the Language of Fear

  Note: Rhetoric is analyzed in real primary texts — Lin Zexu's letter, the abolitionist sugar-boycott pamphlets, Torches of Freedom, and fear-based drug-policy media.

• ELA.10.R.2.3

  Covered

  Analyze an author's choices in establishing and achieving purpose(s) in historical American speeches and essays.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · Blood-Sweetened Luxury (the abolitionist sugar boycott)
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition
  • · Ep 15 · Torches of Freedom
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter (using Britain's own values against its opium policy)

  Note: Author purpose and rhetoric are analyzed in effective historical American texts — the abolitionist sugar boycott, Torches of Freedom, Selling Prohibition.

• ELA.10.R.2.4

  Covered

  Compare the development of two opposing arguments on the same topic, evaluating the effectiveness and validity of the claims, and analyzing the ways in which the authors use the same information to achieve different ends.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom

  • · 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 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

  Note: The Whose Voice method is exactly this — a planter's account read against Equiano and Mary Prince, two ways of seeing the same bean — with the validity of each claim assessed.

• ELA.10.C.1.3

  Partially covered

  Write to argue a position, supporting claims using logical reasoning and credible evidence from multiple sources, rebutting counterclaims with relevant evidence, using a logical organizational structure, elaboration, purposeful transitions, and maintaining a formal and objective tone.

  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

  What we do and don't cover: The Coffee project's Option D asks for exactly this — a thesis, credible sources, and a required counterargument section (rebutting counterclaims). It is one optional project in one episode, not a writing programme.

• ELA.10.C.4.1

  Partially covered

  Conduct research to answer a question, refining the scope of the question to align with findings and synthesizing information from multiple reliable and valid sources.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, climate-vulnerability report, 3+ peer-reviewed sources, APA bibliography
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, primary-source research paper with an APA bibliography
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, 3+ peer-reviewed sources and an APA bibliography
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option C, interview ethics: informed consent, right to review

  What we do and don't cover: The Coffee project is a graded 2-3 week research project that synthesizes multiple authoritative sources with an APA bibliography. Only the Coffee episode currently ships one, so we claim it for what it is.

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 Florida B.E.S.T. mathematics standard and no NGSSS mathematics standard.
• Science — Florida is NOT an NGSS state (NGSSS ≠ NGSS), and we did not fetch its science standards. Despite the similar name, the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards are Florida's own system, not the Next Generation Science Standards. Florida's science standards (SC.912) are bespoke. This catalog has no laboratory work, and we did not fetch the Florida science standards this pass, so — by our fetch-or-don't-cite rule — Florida gets no science claim.
• Grade 7 Civics (SS.7.CG) — where the flagship's fullest home lives, not yet fetched. Florida concentrates its dedicated state-and-local civics instruction in the middle-school Grade 7 Civics course (SS.7.CG), which culminates in the statewide Civic Literacy assessment. That is the natural 1:1 home for Florida Civics. We mapped the flagship into the high-school Civics & Government benchmarks that name state and local government (CG.3.15, CG.3.10, CG.2.9) this pass, honestly as partial, and defer SS.7.CG to a later pass rather than cite standards we have not read.
• Florida's distinctive direct democracy has no benchmark of its own. Central flagship lessons — the once-every-20-years Constitution Revision Commission, the citizen-initiative petition, and the 60% supermajority any amendment needs — are what make Florida's constitution unusual. But the SS.912.CG benchmarks are federal-focused and contain no state-constitution-amendment or initiative/referendum benchmark, so those lessons map only obliquely (via CG.2.7, civic engagement). The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
• Most of the Civics & Government federal-heavy standards. CG.1.1-1.3 (founding philosophy, Enlightenment, and the Federalist Papers as named content), CG.2.1 (constitutional provisions on citizenship), CG.2.4-2.6 (balancing rights, government restrictions, and the expansion of civil rights — touched only through history), CG.2.8/2.10/2.12/2.13 (parties, interest groups, media, and voter turnout as political-science content — our media literacy is consumer protection, not political-media analysis), CG.3.1 (ideologies that conflict with democracy), CG.3.4-3.5 (the executive branch and regulatory agencies), CG.3.9/3.13/3.14 (judges vs. other officials, interstate disputes, judicial decision-making), and CG.4.x (U.S. foreign policy) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• The landmark-cases overlap is thin, and we say so. CG.3.11 enumerates Marbury, McCulloch, Dred Scott, Plessy, Brown, Gideon, Miranda, Korematsu, Mapp, In re Gault, U.S. v. Nixon, Bakke, Hazelwood, and Heller. Our Know Your Rights course teaches Tinker, Brandenburg, Mapp, Terry, T.L.O., Riley, and Carpenter as applicable rules — Mapp is the only direct overlap. We claim the case-application skill as partial and do not pretend to cover this benchmark's specific case list.
• The African American History strand is claimed only where the catalog genuinely teaches it. SS.912.AA is a 100+ benchmark strand spanning African kingdoms and the origins of slavery, the full arc of enslavement and resistance, Reconstruction, and the entire civil-rights and post-1968 story. We claim four benchmarks — the triangular/trans-Atlantic slave trade (AA.1.3), cash crops and slavery (AA.2.13, partial), the Great Migration (AA.3.9), and the Harlem Renaissance (AA.3.10, partial) — because the catalog's commodity, slave-trade, and Great Migration content genuinely covers them. The rest of the strand is not taught here, and we do not stretch to claim it.
• The rest of World History, American History, Geography, and Economics we checked. We read the high-school benchmarks of each strand and claim only what the catalog genuinely teaches. The surveys of the ancient and classical world, the World Wars, the American political eras, monetary and fiscal policy, market structures, and the many tool-and-skill benchmarks not listed above are not claimed. The reject list is the evidence the map was not padded.
• B.E.S.T. ELA grades 6-9 and 11-12. We mapped Grade 10 (ELA.10) as the representative high-school grade; grades 6-9 and 11-12 carry parallel reading, rhetoric, and communication benchmarks we did not separately transcribe. And the B.E.S.T. ELA composition benchmarks are met only by the Coffee project — one optional project in one episode — so the argument and research standards are claimed as partial, never a full writing programme.