Mississippi standards alignment

• MS.10

  Covered

  Analyze the structure and function of local and state government in Mississippi.

  Covered by

  • Mississippi Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics

  • · Mississippi Civics, Lesson 1 · A state that changed: the 2020 election rule and the new flag
  • · Mississippi Civics, Lesson 2 · A large plural executive and an unusually powerful Lieutenant Governor
  • · Mississippi Civics, Lesson 3 · The Legislature, and why Mississippi's initiative doesn't work right now
  • · Mississippi Civics, Lesson 4 · Judges, local government, and how to take part
  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship

  Note: The flagship's primary home: Mississippi's own government — the 1890 constitution, the three branches of state government (the Legislature, the plural executive with its unusually powerful Lieutenant Governor, and the nonpartisan elected judiciary), the 82-county board-of-supervisors local layer, and the rights and responsibilities of Mississippi citizenship (MS.10 objectives 1-4) — is taught in depth.

• USG.3

  Covered

  Differentiate the basic organization of the US government and explain the function of each branch of the US government.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 1 · Purpose of government and the three branches
  • · 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
  • · 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)
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power

  Note: The three branches and their functions, checks and balances, the federal courts' organization and jurisdiction, and judicial review (USG.3 objective 10 names Marbury v. Madison) are taught end to end across the general civics courses.

• USG.4

  Covered

  Analyze of the role of federalism in addressing the distribution of power between the national, state and local governments.

  Covered by

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

  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 2 · Three kinds of power: enumerated, implied, reserved
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 3 · The enumerated powers: Article I, § 8 (the Necessary and Proper Clause)
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 6 · Concurrent powers: what both levels share
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 7 · McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): implied powers and supremacy
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · Mississippi Civics, Lesson 2 · A large plural executive and an unusually powerful Lieutenant Governor
  • · Mississippi Civics, Lesson 4 · Judges, local government, and how to take part

  Note: Federalism and the reserved/concurrent powers taxonomy (USG.4 names the Ninth and Tenth Amendments) are taught directly, and the standard's state-and-local responsibilities and revenue are taught as Mississippi's own state and county governments. ("Analyze of the role" is transcribed verbatim from the source.)

• USG.7

  Covered

  Describe and evaluate the role, rights, and responsibility of a citizen in the American democracy.

  Covered by

  • Citizenship & Naturalization Basics
  • Jury Duty & the Courts (the citizen's side)
  • Voting & Elections 101
  • How to Run for Office: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • Mississippi Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What

  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · 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
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lessons 1-3 · registration, primaries and caucuses, how you vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 7 · Counting, canvassing, and certifying the vote
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 8 · Verify your own registration and rules
  • · How to Run for Office · the whole course (eligibility, ballot access, money rules, and after Election Day)
  • · 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
  • · Mississippi Civics, Lesson 4 · Judges, local government, and how to take part
  • · US, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level

  Note: The citizen's rights and responsibilities the standard lists — voting, serving as a juror, running for office, naturalization (USG.7 objective 11), the Bill of Rights, influencing state and local government, and voter turnout / the Electoral College — are each taught, including Mississippi's own elections and get-involved levers.

• USG.2

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the foundational American political principles and the historical events, documents and philosophical ideas that shaped the formation of the United States.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 1 · Why a constitution? From the Articles of Confederation
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · State vs Federal Power, Lesson 1 · What is federalism, and why split power at all?
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 8 · The Bill of Rights (Amendments I to X)

  What we do and don't cover: The failure of the Articles of Confederation and the move to the 1787 Constitution, separation of powers and checks and balances, federalism, and the Bill of Rights are taught; the standard's Athenian/Roman origins, the Magna Carta, Hobbes/Locke/Montesquieu, and the Federalist Papers by number are not taught by name, so this is partial.

• USG.5

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast civil rights and civil liberties and explain how each have been interpreted and amended throughout American history.

  Covered by

  • The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government
  • The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch
  • US Civics 101: How American Government Works

  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of 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
  • · The Supreme Court & the Judicial Branch, Lesson 5 · Writing the opinion: majority, concurrence, dissent, and precedent
  • · 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
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  What we do and don't cover: The Bill of Rights, First Amendment freedoms, when government may limit rights, and landmark rights cases are taught; the standard's full case list (Plessy, Brown, Miranda, Bakke, Adarand, VMI), selective incorporation as a concept, and the Warren/Rehnquist-court analysis are not all covered, so this is partial.

• USG.6

  Partially covered

  Describe the role and function of linkage institutions such as the media, interest groups, political parties, and political action committees, on the citizens and federal government.

  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
  • 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 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 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

  What we do and don't cover: Claimed only through the media-evaluation objectives: USG.6 objective 7 ("Evaluate the responsibility of the citizens to thoughtfully evaluate evidence presented by media and interest groups") and objective 8 (the role of journalism, internet vs. traditional media) are near-1:1 with the catalog's media-literacy method. The rest of USG.6 (parties, PACs, campaign finance, interest-group agendas) is not taught, so this is partial.

• RH.11-12.6

  Covered

  Evaluate author's differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors' claims, reasoning, and evidence.

  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

  Note: The strongest single alignment on this page. Ep 4 puts a planter's euphemism and passive voice directly against two first-person accounts by formerly enslaved writers, and teaches the student to assess each author's claims, reasoning, and evidence. MISSISSIPPI-REVISED wording: MS opens "Evaluate author's differing points of view…" (singular) where the Common Core reads "Evaluate authors' differing…" (plural) — this divergence is why the shared Common Core file is not aliased here.

• RH.11-12.9

  Covered

  Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 10 · The Oral History That Survived (recovering Nathan “Nearest” Green's erased role)
  • · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story

  Note: “Noting discrepancies among sources” is the whole point of the Nathan Green lesson: the documentary record and the oral record disagree, and the episode teaches why oral history is a legitimate scholarly method for resolving that. Mississippi's text is verbatim identical to the Common Core code.

• WHST.11-12.7

  Partially covered

  Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: only the Coffee episode currently ships a graded research assignment. Where it runs, it meets this standard squarely. Mississippi's text is verbatim identical to the Common Core code.

• WHST.11-12.8

  Partially covered

  Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · 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
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification

  What we do and don't cover: Partial, same reason as WHST.11-12.7: the graded gathering-and-citing product ships only in the Coffee episode. Mississippi's text is verbatim identical to the Common Core code.

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 — Common-Core-derived MS CCRS: nothing claimed. Mississippi adopted the Common Core for mathematics as the MS College- and Career-Readiness Standards, but this catalog does no mathematics instruction, so it meets no Mississippi mathematics standard.
• Science — Mississippi's own 2018 standards (NOT NGSS): nothing claimed. Mississippi did NOT adopt the Next Generation Science Standards; its science standards are Mississippi's own (the 2018 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science). So the shared NGSS framework (which NGSS states adopt) does not apply here and is not aliased. This catalog has no laboratory work, investigation, or scientific modeling, and its climate/resource content would at most map to Mississippi's own Earth/Environmental science standards — deferred this pass, not claimed unverified.
• English/Language Arts RI.11-12.6 — in Mississippi's separate ELA document: deferred. The catalog's rhetoric/persuasion strength (analyzing how style and content make a text persuasive) maps to RI.11-12.6 (Reading Informational Text). That code lives in Mississippi's separate ELA-teacher standards document rather than the 2025 MS CCRS for Literacy and Writing we transcribed here, so we did not verify its verbatim Mississippi wording this pass. Verbatim-or-nothing: it is deferred, not aliased.
• Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor, struck-down initiative, and 2020 changes have no discrete benchmark. The flagship teaches Mississippi's unusually powerful Lieutenant Governor, its ballot-initiative process struck down in 2021 (the five-congressional-district signature formula that became impossible after Mississippi dropped to four U.S. House seats), the 2020 removal of the Jim Crow-era statewide-election rule, and the 2020 adoption of a new state flag as headline features. Mississippi's MS.10 standard names none of them individually (it says only "the structure and function of local and state government in Mississippi"), so they are claimed through MS.10 rather than as standards of their own.
• The abstract-concept and linkage-institution benchmarks we checked and rejected. USG.1 (the basic concepts of democracy — the worth and dignity of the individual, equality under law, majority rule vs. minority rights, compromise) is too abstract to claim as a dedicated unit, and the party / PAC / campaign-finance / interest-group core of USG.6 is not taught (USG.6 is claimed only partially, through its two media-evaluation objectives). The courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• Mississippi's US History, World History, Economics, Geography, and Mississippi Studies history strands — deferred, not denied. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and Cold-War history and its commodity economics WOULD map to Mississippi's US History, World History, Economics, and Geography courses and to the history strands of the Mississippi Studies course (MS.1-9, MS.11, MS.12), as they do in other states. Those strands were not transcribed this pass; they are deferred (verbatim-or-nothing), not claimed unverified. This pass mapped the US Government course, the Mississippi Studies government standard (MS.10), and the grades 11-12 literacy standards.