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Georgia standards alignment

Designed for high school. Below is every Georgiastandard 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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  • 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 Georgia'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.

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Georgia · Social Studies

Georgia Standards of Excellence — World History (SSWH)

GSE · Approved June 9, 2016 · Updated November 2, 2023 · Georgia Department of Education · retrieved 2026-07-17

Georgia's World History course (SSWH1-22). The BVC curriculum's exploration/Columbian-Exchange, imperialism, revolution, and Cold War content maps here — and Georgia's standards name the Opium Wars (SSWH16c) and Haiti (SSWH14b) explicitly.

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  • SSWH10

    Covered
    Analyze the causes and effects of exploration and expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

    Covered by

    • · 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

    Note: Element (b) the Columbian Exchange and element (d) the Transatlantic Slave Trade's effects on Africa and the colonies are taught directly, through the commodities and societies (Maya, Aztec) that conquest remade.

  • SSWH16

    Covered
    Analyze the rise of nationalism and worldwide imperialism.

    Covered by

    • · 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 17 · Lin Zexu's Letter
    • · 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)
    • · 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: Element (b) imperialism in Africa and Asia and the influence of geography and natural resources is the cash-crop story the whole series tells, and element (c) anti-imperial resistance names the Opium Wars, which the drug-history curriculum teaches in depth.

  • SSWH14b

    Partially covered
    Identify the causes and results of the revolutions in England (1689), United States (1776), France (1789), Haiti (1791), and Latin America (1808-1825).

    Covered by

    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Debt of Freedom
    • · Ep 11 · The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James)
    • · Ep 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Maroons

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: this element (under SSWH14, Analyze the Age of Revolutions) names "Haiti (1791)" explicitly, and the Haitian Revolution is taught in real depth — through the 1825 French indemnity and Haiti's modern poverty. The England, United States, France, and Latin American revolutions are not the focus.

Georgia · Social Studies

Georgia Standards of Excellence — World Geography (SSWG)

GSE · Approved June 9, 2016 · Updated November 2, 2023 · Georgia Department of Education · retrieved 2026-07-17

Georgia's World Geography course (SSWG1-6). The BVC Commodity Map is this course's strongest home — Georgia's SSWG5e even names "plantation farming in Africa and Central/South America" as a global-trade-and-environment case.

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  • SSWG5

    Covered
    Analyze human interactions with the world's environments.

    Covered by

    • · 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
    • · 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 4 · The Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
    • · Ep 4 · Resistance and Revolution
    • · Ep 11 · The Maroons
    • · Ep 11 · The Haitian Revolution
    • · Ep 6 · Islands Under Pressure
    • · Ep 8 · Beer Geography Is Shifting

    Note: Element (e) — how global trade systems impact environmental sustainability, with the standard's own example "plantation farming in Africa and Central/South America" — is the commodity curriculum exactly, and element (c) industrialization and natural-resource management is taught through the cash-crop systems and published climate forecasts.

  • SSWG3

    Partially covered
    Evaluate how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the earth's surface.

    Covered by

    • · 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

    What we do and don't cover: Partial: element (c) post-colonial legacies and element (d) organizations of global power (the standard names USMCA) are touched through how colonial patterns persist and how the NAFTA→USMCA order works. The general political-boundary and sovereignty content is not taught.

Georgia · English/Language Arts

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards — Grades 9-12

Approved May 2023 · in effect SY2025-2026 · Georgia Department of Education · retrieved 2026-07-17

Georgia's NEW K-12 ELA standards (Approved May 2023) took effect for 2025-2026, replacing the Common Core-derived GSE ELA — so Georgia is NOT mapped through our shared Common Core file. The standards are grade-band (9-12), organized as Domains → Big Ideas → Standards; we cite the Texts-domain standards this catalog meets.

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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 Georgia mathematics standard.
  • Science — Georgia's own GSE Science (NOT NGSS), deferred not denied. We verified that Georgia's science standards are the Georgia Standards of Excellence for Science — Georgia's own, NOT the NGSS. We did not fetch and transcribe them this pass, and our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so Georgia carries no science claim here. The climate-and-resources content the NGSS states pick up through HS-ESS3-1 maps instead to Georgia social studies (World Geography SSWG1 and SSWG5, World History SSWH16). Georgia's high-school Environmental Science standards are the candidate home for a future pass.
  • American Government/Civics standards checked and rejected. SSCG2 (the political-philosophy genealogy — the Magna Carta through Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu, as named texts), SSCG9 (the impeachment and removal process), and SSCG11 (the federal bureaucracy, its departments and agencies, and the Cabinet) are not genuinely taught, so we do not claim them.
  • Economics — the personal-finance course, macroeconomics, and the market-structure standards. The personal-finance standards (SSEPF1-10), macroeconomics (SSEMA1-3 — GDP, the Federal Reserve, fiscal policy), the microeconomic circular-flow and market-structure standards (SSEMI1, SSEMI3), the scarcity and rational-decision standards (SSEF1, SSEF2, SSEF4), and the exchange-rate standard (SSEIN2) were checked and are not taught. We claim the international-trade and economic-systems standards where the lessons land.
  • World and U.S. history beyond the mapped standards. Georgia's SSWH and SSUSH are full surveys. This catalog teaches world and U.S. history in specific places — exploration and the Columbian Exchange, imperialism and the Opium Wars, the Haitian Revolution, the Gilded Age unions, the Great Migration, Prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance, the Wagner Act, and Poland's exit from communism — not as surveys, so the remaining ancient/medieval, world-war, and U.S.-survey standards are not claimed.
  • The direct-democracy tools SSCG17e names — Georgia does not have the initiative. Georgia's own SSCG17e lists "the initiative, referendum, and recall" as limitations citizens may exercise on state and local government. But Georgia has NO statewide citizen initiative: the flagship teaches that absence and the legislative-referral path (a two-thirds vote of each house, then voter ratification) honestly, rather than describing a tool Georgia does not provide. So the standard is claimed (partial) for what Georgia's civics actually is, not padded to look like a direct-democracy state.
  • The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. Georgia's closest frameworks (Computer Science, World Languages) have not been fetched and verified this pass. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no Georgia claims here.

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