Arkansas standards alignment

• 10.RC.14.RI

  Partially covered

  Compare accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized and/or omitted in each account.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Coca — White Lines
  • BVC: Whiskey — Fire Water

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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: 'emphasized and/or omitted' is exactly the Whose Voice method (a planter's account against Equiano and Prince; reading Austen for the sugar money she leaves out), and the Nathan Green lesson compares the written record against the oral one — genuinely different mediums. Multimedia accounts in the standard's modern sense are not analyzed.

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 Arkansas mathematics standard.
• The Arkansas Civics flagship's structure lessons have no Arkansas standard to cite. Arkansas Civics: How Your State Government Works teaches the 1874 constitution, the seven separately elected executives, the nonpartisan ELECTED Supreme Court (Amendment 80), and the quorum-court county system — from Arkansas's own official sources. But Arkansas's 2022 Civics and U.S. Government standards are overwhelmingly FEDERAL: we searched both documents and found no structure-of-Arkansas-government standard for those lessons to meet. The course backs the state halves of C.4.CIV.1 (lawmaking, initiatives) and C.3.CIV.13 (elections); the rest of its Arkansas content has no code to cite. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
• Health — the 2019 standards print no citable codes, and the content does not match. Arkansas's 2019 Health & Safety standards are competency statements ('I can…') organized by domain and level, with no printed codes — and the Grades 9-12 objectives are content-domain statements (nutrition, alcohol/tobacco/drugs, disease prevention, mental health) that our health courses do not teach. Unlike Indiana and Arizona, whose health frameworks carry skill standards for evaluating health information and goal-setting, Arkansas gives our health claims no honest home. We cite none; the goal-setting and product-claims work maps through the PE course frameworks instead, where Arkansas DID write codes.
• Personal finance — nothing. Arkansas bundles personal finance into its Economics course (Act 480/466 requirements). The catalog does not teach personal finance, so we claim no PF standard.
• Arkansas Economics has no home for the reciprocity-economy content. The curriculum contrasts traditional (reciprocity) and market economies directly and at length, but E.3.ECON.1's allocation-method list (price, auction, lottery, first come, contest, fiat) has no gift/reciprocity entry, and no other 2022 Economics standard covers economic systems. That content maps in Arkansas through World Geography's G.3.WG.5 (attitudes toward resources) instead. E.3.ECON.6/7 (degrees of market competition) are rejected for the same reason as Indiana's market-structure standards: named in our lessons, never taught as a unit. E.5.ECON.1 (comparative advantage) is not taught by name.
• Most of the Civics and U.S. Government standards we checked. C.2.CIV.1 and H.5.USH.1 (flag etiquette), C.2.CIV.3 (the seven-ideology comparison), C.2.CIV.4 (the Federalist Papers as rationale), C.3.CIV.2/3/5 (non-citizen roles, citizenship demographics, the Census), C.3.CIV.11 (Arkansas student-law topics), C.3.CIV.12/14/15/16 (parties, PACs, media influence, gerrymandering — our media-literacy course is consumer protection, not political media analysis), C.4.CIV.5/6 (intergovernmental policy conflict; criminal vs. civil law), C.3.USG.1-6 (Enlightenment thinkers and the Declaration as persuasive argument), C.2.USG.6/7/10/12/13 (the Cabinet, the bureaucracy, Full Faith and Credit, fiscal policy), and C.4.USG.3-6 (judicial philosophies and current-issues application) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• U.S. History Since 1929 starts too late for half our labor history. The Gilded Age labor movement (the Knights, Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman), the Triangle fire, and the Great Migration's first decades all predate 1929, so Arkansas's U.S. History course cannot reach them — the window is the course's, not ours. Taft-Hartley (1947) and PATCO (1981) fall inside the window, but H.5.USH.20's policy list does not name labor policy and H.5.USH.22's Reagan-era list does not name PATCO, so we do not claim either. The Migration and Jim Crow map through African-American History, where Arkansas's standards name them.
• World History standards we checked and rejected. H.6.WH.10 (industrialization's development and expansion), H.6.WH.21-24 (World War I and II, the Holocaust), H.6.WH.30-32 (Cold War interdependence, late-20th-century catastrophes and costs of war), and H.6.WH.34 (human-made and natural disasters) — case-study adjacency is not coverage, so we claim none of them.
• PE performance and participation standards — all of them. Every PFL and RS standard that asks a student to DEMONSTRATE motor skill, participate, perform dance, or exhibit behavior during activity (all of Content Standard 1, the participation halves of Standard 3, Standards 4 and 5's in-activity conduct) is out of reach of an online course, however good its knowledge content. We claim knowledge- and planning-side standards only, and we say so on each entry.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Arkansas's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Arkansas claims this pass.