North Dakota standards alignment

• C.6_12.2.3

  Covered

  Analyze the structure, principles, and interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.

  Covered by

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

  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 2-9 · the Constitution analyzed article by article
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 6 · Separation of powers and checks & balances
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 7 · Federalism: state and federal power
  • · US Constitution 101, Lessons 3-6 · Articles I-III and checks & balances
  • · US Civics 101, Lesson 4 · The courts and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison)

  Note: The U.S. Constitution is worked article by article: the Preamble's purposes, separation of powers and checks and balances, the branches Articles I-III create, and judicial review (Marbury v. Madison) — the structure, principles, and interpretation the standard names.

• C.6_12.3.1

  Covered

  Describe and examine the amendments to the United States Constitution and their application in the United States.

  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)
  • · The Bill of Rights: Know Your Rights, Lesson 1 · What is the Bill of Rights?
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 9 · Changing the Constitution: Article V and key later amendments
  • · 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: The amendments are taught end to end: the Bill of Rights and later amendments, the Article V process that creates them, and their application through the landmark cases.

• C.6_12.3.2

  Covered

  Describe the impact of court cases on the rights and liberties of individuals.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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)

  Note: The impact of court cases on rights is taught as usable rules — the landmark cases (including Tinker v. Des Moines, which the standard's guiding topics name), how precedent expands rights over time, where the line on those rights falls, and judicial review as the Court's power.

• C.6_12.4.1

  Covered

  Explain how citizens can influence government.

  Covered by

  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • How a Bill Becomes Law (Federal): From Idea to Public Law
  • North Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • 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 a Bill Becomes Law, Lesson 8 · Tracking a bill and making your voice heard
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 3 · Strong direct democracy and a large plural executive
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 1 · The only state with no voter registration
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes
  • · How to Run for Office · the whole course (eligibility, ballot access, money rules, and after Election Day)

  Note: Exactly the standard's guiding list: voting (North Dakota's no-registration system), running for office, petitioning, and the initiated measure, referendum, and recall that North Dakota's populist history makes an unusually consequential tool, plus helping a campaign lawfully and tracking a live bill.

• C.6_12.4.2

  Covered

  Describe and evaluate the criteria and process for naturalization 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: An entire course walks the naturalization criteria and process — the citizenship test and pledge, the requirements, and the historic and present restrictions the standard names. (Carries the source's ♦ NDCC 15.1-21 marker.)

• C.6_12.4.3

  Covered

  Explain how citizens’ personal and civic responsibilities are important to the preservation and improvement of United States constitutional republic.

  Covered by

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

  • · Citizenship & Naturalization Basics, Lesson 7 · Rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  • · Jury Duty & the Courts · the whole course (the citizen's side of the court system)
  • · Voting & Elections 101, Lesson 1 · Registering to vote
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 1 · The only state with no voter registration
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part

  Note: The responsibilities the standard enumerates are taught as practices: voting (North Dakota edition — no registration, just acceptable ID), serving as a juror, staying informed and attentive to public issues, registering (elsewhere) and voting knowledgeably, and civic participation.

• C.6_12.4.4

  Covered

  Identify bias and evaluate its role in media sources.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 2 · Reading a Tea 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

  Note: Identifying bias across media sources is a spine of the catalog's media-literacy strand — reading advertising for what it omits, the recurring media fallacies, the language of fear in Reefer Madness, and source evaluation modelled step by step, covering the standard's broadcast, print, and social-media sources.

• C.6_12.2.5

  Partially covered

  Explain the purposes, organization, powers, and processes of tribal and local governments.

  Covered by

  • North Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What

  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part
  • · 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, State & Local Government, Lesson 8 · Where to show up and be heard, at every level

  What we do and don't cover: The flagship's primary local home: North Dakota LOCAL government is taught as North Dakota's own — the 53 counties with elected commissions and separately elected sheriff, auditor, treasurer, and state's attorney, active townships alongside incorporated cities, and school and special districts, plus how to show up at each. TRIBAL government — which the standard names, in a state home to five tribal nations — is not taught by this catalog.

• C.6_12.2.4

  Partially covered

  Explain the relationship among federal, state, tribal, and local governmental powers.

  Covered by

  • State vs Federal Power: How American Government Is Divided
  • North Dakota 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
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 3 · Strong direct democracy and a large plural executive
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 4 · A Legislature that meets every other year, and the courts
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the federal-state-local relationship is taught in full — why power is split between nation and state, the enumerated-versus-reserved taxonomy, and North Dakota's own state structure (the Constitution of 1889, the biennial Legislative Assembly, the plural executive, and the elected courts). TRIBAL governmental powers and tribal sovereignty, which the standard also names, are not taught.

• C.6_12.2.2

  Partially covered

  Examine the role and purposes of government.

  Covered by

  • North Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • US Constitution 101: The Document That Builds the Government

  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 2 · The only state-owned bank (and a state-owned mill)
  • · US Constitution 101, Lesson 2 · The Preamble: who, and why

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the purposes-of-government question is engaged directly, and with a North Dakota answer — the state-owned Bank of North Dakota and Mill and Elevator as a distinctive view of what government is for, alongside the Preamble's enumerated purposes. The guiding topics' comparative survey of ancient civilizations' founding governments (River Valley, Greek, Roman, Mesoamerican) is not the focus.

• C.6_12.1.3

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the creation and impact of primary sources on political thought in the United States.

  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 founding primary sources are worked as documents that shaped U.S. political thought — the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the 1787 Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The fuller genealogy the guiding topics list (Magna Carta, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, the Virginia and New Jersey Plans) is named, not each worked. (Carries the source's ♦ NDCC 15.1-21 marker.)

• C.6_12.4.5

  Partially covered

  Demonstrate active participation in civic life.

  Covered by

  • US, State & Local Government: Who Does What
  • How to Help a Campaign: A Practical, Non-Partisan Guide
  • North 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)
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 5 · Local government and how to take part
  • · How to Help a Campaign, Lesson 10 · Helping ballot measures and local causes

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: participation is taught as concrete practice — how to show up at every level, help a campaign lawfully, contact officials, and use North Dakota's initiative and referendum — but the standard asks the student to DEMONSTRATE participation, and the civic act itself is the learner's to perform beyond this online course.

• E.6_12.6.1

  Covered

  Describe how trade generates economic development and interdependence.

  Covered by

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

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

  Note: How trade generates development and interdependence is the series' spine — real commodity value chains show who develops and who stays dependent, and the growing belts explain why trade follows climate and soil.

• E.6_12.6.2

  Covered

  Analyze the benefits and costs for individuals, producers, and governments in international trade.

  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

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

  Note: The benefits and costs of international trade for producers and governments are worked through real chains — who captures value and who is caught in the commodity trap — and through the U.S. sugar program's quotas, tariffs, and price supports.

• E.6_12.4.2

  Partially covered

  Evaluate the role of government in a market economy.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • North Dakota Civics: How Your State Government Works
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · North Dakota Civics, Lesson 2 · The only state-owned bank (and a state-owned mill)
  • · 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, and with a North Dakota case: the role of government in a market economy is taught through the U.S. sugar program's quotas, tariffs, and price supports, and — uniquely for North Dakota — its own state-owned Bank of North Dakota and Mill and Elevator as public enterprises inside a market economy, set against the traditional-versus-market contrast. The standard's full fiscal and monetary policy (the Federal Reserve, expansionary/contractionary policy) is not covered.

• E.6_12.3.3

  Partially covered

  Analyze the impact of the supply and demand on prices.

  Covered by

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

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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the impact of demand on price is taught through a worked commodity case — a frost moving world coffee prices, and why inelastic demand absorbs the spike. The formal supply-and-demand treatment (schedules, curves, equilibrium) is not the method.

• E.6_12.2

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast how varying economic systems impact a nation and its citizens.

  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 traditional (reciprocity) economies against market economies directly and at length, and how each shapes a people's lives. The command/centrally-planned-versus-market contrast the benchmark's guiding topics center on (communism, socialism, capitalism) is not the comparison taught.

• G.6_12.1.2

  Covered

  Explain the factors that cause different types of climates and ecosystems, and their latitudes/locations.

  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

  Note: This is the Growing Belts map itself: latitude band, elevation, and climate deciding where each commodity's ecosystem falls and why it can grow only there.

• G.6_12.1.3

  Covered

  Identify how major ecosystems provide raw materials.

  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: How ecosystems provide raw materials — soil fertility, growing season, and climate deciding which commodities a region can supply — is exactly the resource-map method.

• G.6_12.5

  Covered

  Analyze how human beings are dependent upon, adapt to, and modify their environment to meet their needs.

  Covered by

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

  • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
  • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
  • · Ep 6 · Why Volcanic Soil Only
  • · Ep 10 · Karst Limestone and Bourbon
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, assess a producing country's climate viability and defend the assessment
  • · 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

  Note: Human-environment interaction is the curriculum's method: volcanic soil and altitude deciding what grows, climate shaping human activity, and people modifying land to produce — the dependence, adaptation, and modification the standard names.

• G.6_12.3.4

  Covered

  Identify factors that contribute to conflict and cooperation between cultural groups from multiple perspectives.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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)
  • · 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 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed

  Note: The standard's own factors — control of resources, imperialism, economic factors, and the distribution of wealth — are the plantation and colonial cash-crop systems the catalog traces across the Caribbean, West Africa, South Asia, and Oceania, and how those patterns persist today.

• G.6_12.2.3

  Partially covered

  Explain the patterns, causes, and consequences of major human migrations.

  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 · 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, at case-study depth: the Great Migration is worked in full (the push and pull factors, the migration streams, and the archive that records them), but it is one migration, not a general treatment of world migration.

• G.6_12.5.2

  Partially covered

  Analyze how human changes to the environment in one region or place can affect another.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · Ep 1 · Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map
  • · Ep 3 · A Two-Degree Threat
  • · Ep 6 · Islands Under Pressure
  • · Ep 8 · Beer Geography Is Shifting

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: published climate forecasts and their cross-region implications for growers and production regions are analyzed in depth (coffee, cacao, kava, beer). The standard's broader scope (deforestation, carbon emissions, water rights) is touched through that commodity lens rather than worked as its own case.

• US.6_12.1

  Covered

  Analyze primary and secondary sources with attention to reliability, impact, and purpose.

  Covered by

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

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

  Note: Analyzing sources for reliability, impact, and purpose is the catalog's 'Whose Voice' method and the Great Migration's archive work — a planter's account read against formerly enslaved writers, and every migration claim pointed to its real record.

• US.6_12.1-6.E3.1

  Partially covered

  Explain the causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution on American society.

  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)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Gilded Age labor movement and the Triangle Shirtwaist fire — the industrial era's consequences for working people that the guiding topics name (labor strikes, the Progressive-Era reforms) — are worked in depth. The Industrial Revolution's broader causes and technologies are not surveyed.

• US.6_12.1-6.E3.5

  Partially covered

  Explain the political, social, and economic changes of the 1920s.

  Covered by

  • The Great Migration: How Six Million People Remade America

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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: two defining 1920s changes are taught — national Prohibition (its politics and its unintended consequences) and the Harlem Renaissance and the Black press. The decade's broader economics and politics (consumer culture, the Red Scare, nativism) are not surveyed.

• US.6_12.1-6.E4.5

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast how different groups competed for equality and the effectiveness of various movements.

  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: Partial: the Civil Rights movement is taught through the political power the Great Migration built and through the labor-and-civil-rights alliance, but not as a full comparative survey of the equality movements the guiding topics list (the American Indian, Women's Rights, and Chicano movements).

• US.6_12.1-6.E2.1

  Partially covered

  Analyze the impacts of social, religious, and/or cultural movements.

  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 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: abolition and the resistance of enslaved people, and the temperance movement that produced Prohibition, are taught. The standard's fuller list (women's suffrage, the Second Great Awakening) is not.

• WH.6_12.1-6.E3.2

  Covered

  Explain the global connections developed during this era because of exploration.

  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 3 · Food of the Gods (cacao as Maya/Aztec currency and sacrament)
  • · Ep 12 · The Sacred Plant (Aztec governance of pulque)
  • · Ep 12 · Burning the Books
  • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
  • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
  • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
  • · 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 benchmark's own guiding topics — the effects of imperialism, the slave trade, and the Columbian Exchange — are the catalog's spine, traced through the plants those systems governed: conquest and the Columbian Exchange, the colonization of Mesoamerica, the plantation economy and the resistance to it, and imperialism across Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

• WH.6_12.1-6.E1.3

  Covered

  Explain the impact of the development of agriculture on the social, cultural, and economic lives of individuals.

  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 · 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
  • · Ep 8 · Liquid Bread and the First Cities (the Code of Hammurabi, c. 1754 BCE, legislates beer)

  Note: The development of agriculture and its social and economic consequences is taught directly — the agricultural hearths and the exchange of crops among regions, and how grain surpluses built the first cities.

• WH.6_12.1-6.E4.3

  Covered

  Explain the social, cultural, or economic changes influenced by 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
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • Mexico: The Protection Contract, and the Trade Deal That Came for It

  • · Ep 1 · Follow the Money: Bean to Cup
  • · Ep 2 · Who Gets Paid, Tea and Coffee Compared
  • · Ep 3 · The Commodity Trap
  • · Ep 12 · The Jimador's Share
  • · Ep 14 · Pattern 3: Labor Captures the Smallest Share (the smile curve)
  • · Ep 21 · The Smile Curve, Confirmed
  • · Ep 7 · Who Captures the Value
  • · Ep 3 · Conquest and the Great Reversal
  • · Ep 5 · How Coca-Cola Got Its Name (biopiracy)
  • · Ep 7 · The Same Story, Six Times
  • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom (the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty)
  • · Mexico, Lesson 7 · Mexico rewrites its labor law, and the 68-year gap that explains why
  • · Mexico, Lesson 10 · The Rapid Response Mechanism: an international labor rule with teeth
  • · Mexico, Lesson 12 · The limits, honestly: the cases the United States lost

  Note: Globalization's economic changes are the series' subject — who captures value along global commodity chains, the commodity trap, how colonial patterns persist in present markets, and the NAFTA-to-USMCA cross-border labor order the guiding topics' 'global markets' and 'migration movements' name.

• WH.6_12.5

  Covered

  Analyze causes and effects of global events in the past using primary and/or secondary sources.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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 17 · The Opium Wars
  • · Ep 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification

  Note: Global events are analyzed from their sources — the Opium Wars and their long consequences for China, worked through the documentary record using the catalog's 'Whose Voice' source-analysis method.

• WH.6_12.6

  Covered

  Explain how past events connect to the present.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · 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: Connecting past to present is the catalog's method: how colonialism and imperialism persist and evolve in present-day commodity chains, debt, and trade.

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 North Dakota mathematics standard.
• English Language Arts — considered, deferred, not claimed this pass. North Dakota adopted its OWN English Language Arts & Literacy standards (2023), with North Dakota's own codes and wording — North Dakota is not mapped through our shared Common Core file. The catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, and source-evaluation teaching would in principle map to North Dakota's grade-11/12 informational-reading and research standards, but we have not fetched and verified that document this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so ELA is deferred until the verbatim North Dakota text is in hand.
• Science — considered, deferred, not claimed this pass. North Dakota's 2019 science standards are North Dakota's own, derived from the NRC Framework rather than adopted verbatim from NGSS. The catalog's one honest science idea — resource availability and climate shaping human activity — would in principle map to a North Dakota science code, but verbatim-or-nothing means we will not alias the shared NGSS file to a North Dakota code we have not confirmed against North Dakota's own printed wording. Science is deferred until that verbatim text is retrieved.
• North Dakota's own state structure is taught more fully than any one benchmark names. North Dakota Civics teaches the Constitution of 1889, the two national 'onlys' (the only state with no voter registration; the only state-owned bank, the Bank of North Dakota, plus a state-owned Mill and Elevator), the farmer-populist Nonpartisan League, the strong initiative/referendum/recall, the large plural executive, the part-time biennial 94-Representative/47-Senator Legislative Assembly capped at 80 days per biennium, the elected nonpartisan Supreme Court, and the 53 counties — all from North Dakota's own sources. The Civics & Government benchmarks that name state and local government (C.6_12.2.4, C.6_12.2.5) and citizen influence (C.6_12.4.1, C.6_12.4.3) host most of it, but North Dakota's standards are broad U.S.-system anchors, not a North-Dakota-government checklist, so its no-registration voting, its state bank, and its biennial Legislature have no benchmark of their own.
• Civics benchmarks on political philosophy, forms of government, and British-colonial roots. Benchmarks the catalog's civics does not genuinely teach are not claimed: C.6_12.1.1 (evaluate the thoughts of major political philosophers — Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Marx), C.6_12.1.2 (the influence of British and colonial history — Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact), and C.6_12.2.1 (differentiate and compare forms and origins of governments — monarchy, oligarchy, fascism, theocracy). These are named in the constitution course as background, not worked as their own content.
• Economics — the scarcity, institutions, macroeconomics, and Personal Finance strands. Beyond the trade, price, government-role, and economic-systems benchmarks claimed above, the Economics strand's other standards are not the substance of this catalog's commodity history and are left unclaimed: C-adjacent E.6_12.1 (scarcity, opportunity cost, and the factors of production), E.6_12.3.1/E.6_12.3.2 (the formal law of supply and demand, and perfect versus imperfect competition), E.6_12.4.1/E.6_12.4.3 (the stock market and financial institutions; the functions of money), E.6_12.5 (macroeconomic measurements — GDP, inflation, unemployment), and the entire Personal Finance strand E.6_12.7 (career and standard of living, taxes, budgeting, credit and debt) — a ♦ NDCC 15.1-21 strand this catalog does not teach.
• Geography — the geographic-tools and region/culture benchmarks. The Geography strand's tool-and-inquiry benchmarks (G.6_12.4 — maps, globes, GIS/GPS, and the skills of geographic inquiry) and its region/culture benchmarks (G.6_12.3.1-3 — comparing cultures, analyzing regions, and how perception shapes places) are not the catalog's focus; where its content maps squarely — climate and resources deciding where commodities grow, and resource-driven conflict — it is claimed under the physical-processes, human-environment, and cultural-conflict benchmarks above rather than padded into these.
• United States and World History — the eras and skills anchors not claimed above. North Dakota's history strands apply six skills anchors across five U.S. eras and four world eras. We claim only the source-analysis anchors and the specific era benchmarks the wider catalog genuinely reaches (labor and the Gilded Age, the Great Migration and Civil Rights, Prohibition, agriculture and the first cities, the Columbian Exchange and imperialism, the Haitian Revolution, and globalization). The Revolution and founding, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the World Wars and the Cold War, the post-1990 era, and the science/technology and religion/ideology anchors are not this catalog's focus and are left unclaimed rather than stretched.
• North Dakota Studies, Sociology, and Psychology — nothing. North Dakota's Social Studies standards include a distinctive North Dakota Studies strand (state and tribal history — including the required 'North Dakota Tribal Government' study) and 6-12 Sociology and Psychology strands. This catalog teaches North Dakota's state government (the civics flagship) but not North Dakota's own history at these standards' depth, and it teaches no sociology or psychology, so these strands are not claimed.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. North Dakota's closest frameworks for these (its Computer Science and Cybersecurity standards and its world-languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no North Dakota claims this pass.