Better Vice Club
Washington standards alignment
Designed for high school. Below is every Washingtonstandard these courses cover: the exact code, the standard's own words, and the lesson that covers it. Where we only cover part of a standard, it says so, and says which part.
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Read this before you rely on it
- We mapped this ourselves. This alignment was done by Better Vice Club against the published standards. It has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved by Washington's education authority or by anyone else.
- Every code was fetched, then transcribed word for word. Each framework below shows the date its codes and text were retrieved from the publisher.
- Standards get revised.A code can be renumbered or its wording changed without notice, and some states publish more than one live edition of the same document. Confirm anything you file against your own jurisdiction's current requirements, using the source links below.
- We would rather claim less. Where the courses only partly cover a standard, this page says partially covered and explains the gap. Standards we considered and could not honestly claim are listed at the bottom, with the reasons.
Filtering by course: BVC: Coca — White Lines
- All courses
- BVC: Beer — Liquid Bread
- BVC: Cannabis — The Green Revolution
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Coca — White Lines
- BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Kava — The Root of Peace
- BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Psychedelics — The Mushroom's Message
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea
- BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
- BVC: The Full Spectrum — Who Draws the Line?
- BVC: The Toast — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
- BVC: Whiskey — Fire Water
Showing 4 standards covered by BVC: Coca — White Lines. Clear filters
Washington · Social Studies
Washington State K-12 Learning Standards for Social Studies — History, Grades 9-12
Adopted September 2019 · Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) · retrieved 2026-07-18
Washington's high-school History standards. The H3 (multiple perspectives) strand is a strong social-studies home for the catalog's source-evaluation and Whose Voice method, alongside the verbatim Common Core RH literacy strand adopted above.
Read the source document →H3.11-12.4
CoveredIntegrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about the past to create claims and counterclaims.
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)
Note: Integrating primary and secondary sources into a reasoned argument, noting where they disagree, is exactly the Whose Voice and Nathan Green method: a planter's account set against formerly enslaved writers', and the documentary record set against the oral record.
H3.11-12.2
CoveredAnalyze the ways in which the perspectives of those writing history shaped the history that they produced.
Covered by
- BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: Coca — White Lines
- · Ep 4 · Whose Voice Tells the Story
- · 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: Whose voice is present in the record, and whose is absent, is taught directly — how the position of the person writing shapes the account that survives.
H4.11-12.3
Partially coveredAnalyze how current events today are rooted in past events.
Covered by
- BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
- BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
- BVC: My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
- BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
- BVC: Coca — White Lines
- BVC: Opioids — The Poppy's Promise
- BVC: Cannabis — The Green Revolution
- · 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 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: how the present is rooted in the past is taught where the courses reach it — how colonial trade patterns persist today, and how the War on Drugs' foreign arm grew from earlier policy. It is not a general treatment of contemporary issues.
Washington · English/Language Arts
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy
Grades 11-12 · Common Core State Standards Initiative · retrieved 2026-07-13
Washington formally adopted the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (and mathematics) in July 2011 (State Superintendent Randy Dorn). Washington distributes them as the Washington State K-12 Learning Standards for English Language Arts but retains the Common Core codes and text, so the literacy-in-history/social-studies (RH) and writing-in-history (WHST) strands this catalog touches are adopted verbatim. Note: OSPI is running a Learning Standards Review with a draft “WA ELA 2026” in progress; as of this writing the 2011 Common Core adoption remains the operative standard — confirm current status at ospi.k12.wa.us. We claim no mathematics standards.
Read the source document →CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.6
CoveredEvaluate authors' 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
- BVC: Coca — White Lines
- · 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 and evidence.
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 Common Core mathematics standard Washington adopted.
- Science — almost nothing. There is no laboratory work, no investigation and no scientific modelling here. Washington adopted the NGSS verbatim (as the WSSLS), and we claim a single NGSS performance expectation, partially, explaining exactly why on the entry itself. It is not a science course and we will not sell it as one.
- Tribal governments and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum. Washington's social studies standards repeatedly reference tribal constitutions, tribal sovereignty, and the Since Time Immemorial curriculum (e.g., C2.11-12.2 names tribal constitutions; the standards footnote tribal connections throughout). The catalog does not teach tribal government, so we claim only the United-States and Washington-state portions of those standards and mark C2.11-12.2 partial for exactly this reason.
- The flagship's election and tax specifics have no dedicated Washington code. Washington Civics teaches the all-mail (vote-by-mail) system and the top-two primary — the state's most distinctive civics content — plus the contested no-personal-income-tax tradition (the uniformity clause; the 2021 capital-gains tax upheld in 2023). Washington's high-school Civics standards contain no discrete election-administration or tax-policy standard, so this election content is taught but carries no Washington claim, and the tax content is reached only through the general C2 civics standards. The specifics have no code — the gap is in the standards, not the course.
- Prohibition, the War on Drugs as domestic policy, and mass incarceration. The catalog teaches all three. Washington's 2019 social studies standards are analytical and thematic (“current events rooted in past events,” “individuals and movements”) rather than event-naming, so — unlike Washington, D.C. — there is no Washington standard that names Prohibition or mass incarceration to cite. We claim the War on Drugs' foreign-policy arm only through the broad H4.11-12.3, and mark it partial.
- The wider catalog — health, PE, AI-literacy, and languages. Washington's relevant frameworks for these (Health and Physical Education; Computer Science; World Languages) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Washington claims this pass.
See it for yourself
Don't take the mapping on trust. Open the lesson and check it against the standard. Every course publishes its sources too.