Arizona standards alignment

• HS.SP2.2

  Covered

  Analyze the ways in which perspective shapes recorded history.

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

  Note: This is the Whose Voice method: a planter's account read against Equiano and Mary Prince, the documentary record read against the oral record that preserved Nathan Green, and reading a text for what it leaves out.

• HS.C4.2

  Partially covered

  Evaluate local, state, national, and international policies in terms of intended and unintended outcomes and related consequences.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Beer — Liquid Bread
  • BVC: Coca — White Lines
  • BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
  • BVC: Cannabis — The Green Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · Ep 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)
  • · Ep 18 · Bolivia's Bet (Bolivia's legal coca model against U.S.-funded eradication)
  • · Ep 18 · The Balloon Effect
  • · Ep 17 · Where the Poppy Grows (Afghanistan and the Golden Crescent)
  • · Ep 16 · The Justice Gap

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL policies are evaluated in real depth — the U.S. sugar program (intended: stable prices; unintended: ~$3.5bn/yr consumer cost), Prohibition, and the War on Drugs (the balloon effect is an unintended-consequences lesson by name). Local and state policies are not evaluated this way.

• HS.H4.3

  Partially covered

  Examine how access to information and technology has been used to influence society.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Beer — Liquid Bread
  • BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
  • BVC: Cannabis — The Green Revolution
  • BVC: Coca — White Lines

  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 6 · The Black press as engine: the Chicago Defender
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 7 · The Harlem Renaissance & the New Negro
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: one deep case — the Chicago Defender, smuggled south, as information access that moved a million people — plus a media-literacy lesson in every BVC episode on how ads and campaigns use information to influence. Not a general information-technology history.

• HS.SP3.3

  Partially covered

  Analyze the relationship between primary sources and the secondary interpretations made from them including possible limitations in various kinds of evidence and differing secondary interpretations.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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)
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the curriculum models this constantly — every Great Migration lesson points to its real archive, and a widely repeated unsupported statistic becomes a limitations-of-evidence lesson — but sustained student-run source analysis is prompted, not assessed.

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 Arizona mathematics standard.
• Science — two partial claims, no more. Arizona is not an NGSS state; we verified that against the 2018 Arizona Science Standards document itself rather than assuming it. There is no laboratory work, no investigation, and no modelling in this catalog, so we claim exactly two Earth-science standards, partially, and explain the limit on each entry.
• HS.C2.5 — the Arizona-rights comparison our Arizona course does not make. HS.C2.5 asks students to compare the rights guaranteed in the Arizona Constitution to those in the U.S. Constitution. Arizona Civics teaches Arizona's structure and direct democracy, not a clause-by-clause rights comparison — so despite being our Arizona flagship, it does not meet this standard and we do not claim it. HS.C2.6 (contributions of individuals and groups, including Arizonans) is likewise not taught.
• Most of the Civics and Economics anchors we checked. HS.C1.1-C1.4 (civic virtues and deliberative processes as named content), HS.C2.2, HS.C3.3 (parties, interest groups, and media's impact on institutions — our media-literacy course is consumer protection, not political media analysis), HS.C3.4 (international order), HS.C4.4-C4.7 (public-policy decision analysis and in-classroom deliberation), all of HS.E1 (financial literacy), HS.E2 (scarcity and incentives as named concepts), HS.E3.1/E3.3/E3.4, HS.E4 (the domestic economy, fiscal and monetary policy), and HS.E5.2/E5.4 — the courses do not genuinely teach these, so we do not claim them.
• Arizona's Economics anchors have no economic-systems standard. The curriculum contrasts traditional (reciprocity) and market economies directly and at length, but Arizona's high-school Economics anchors (HS.E1-E5) contain no economic-systems standard for it to meet — the closest homes are financial literacy and market mechanics. The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
• Arizona's 2016 ELA standards have no media-bias standard. Indiana's 9-10.CC.8 and 11-12.CC.8 (analyze bias in media; analyze media's impact on the public) are where our media-literacy work maps. Arizona's 2016 ELA standards contain no comparable standard — we searched the 9-10 and 11-12 documents. The closest, 11-12.SL.2, is about integrating sources, and we claim it for what it is. The gap is in the standards, not the lessons.
• PE Standard 2 — no honest home for the sport-strategy courses. Arizona's high-school Standard 2 outcomes are specific: dance forms (S2.H1.L1, S2.H4), biomechanics vocabulary (S2.H2), practice planning (S2.H3), and the historical role of games in society (S2.H1.L2). None of them is the concepts-strategies-tactics knowledge our golf, tennis, football, pickleball, lacrosse, and croquet courses teach in depth, so — unlike Indiana, whose HSL1.2.1.A names exactly that — Arizona gets no Standard 2 claim. And every outcome that asks a student to DEMONSTRATE motor skill or participate is out of reach of an online course; we claim knowledge-side outcomes only.
• Health strands beyond 1, 3, and 6. Strand 2 (analyzing influences), Strand 4 (interpersonal communication), Strand 5 (decision-making), Strand 7 (practicing health behaviors, as observed practice), and Strand 8 (advocacy) were checked against the Grades 9-12 performance objectives and are not genuinely taught by these courses. Strand 6 Concept 2 PO 3 (a long-term personal health plan) was considered and rejected: the blueprint is a 90-day plan, and we will not stretch '90 days' into 'long-term'.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Arizona's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World and Native Languages, Educational Technology) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Arizona claims this pass.