New York standards alignment

• 9.10b

  Partially covered

  Transatlantic exploration led to the Encounter, colonization of the Americas, and the Columbian exchange.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Rum — Sweet Poison
  • BVC: Tequila & Mezcal — Heart of the Agave
  • BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Tea — The Way of Tea

  • · 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 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Columbian exchange itself — the exchange of crops and animals across the world, taught through the commodities that moved — is covered. The standard's exploration, disease, and comparative-demography specifications are not the courses' focus.

• 12.G5d

  Partially covered

  Active and engaged citizens must be effective media consumers in order to be able to find, monitor, and evaluate information on political issues. The media have different venues, which have particular strengths and serve distinct and shared purposes. Knowing how to critically evaluate a media source is fundamental to being an informed citizen.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
  • BVC: Psychedelics — The Mushroom's Message
  • BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf

  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 3 · Weasel words and what the fine print takes back
  • · Spotting Misleading Marketing, Lesson 5 · Fake reviews, astroturfing, and undisclosed #ads
  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: critically evaluating a media source — reading for omission and source reliability, spotting misleading claims and statistics — is taught as a consumer skill. The standard's specific focus on political-issue media is not the courses' angle.

• RH8

  Covered

  Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
  • BVC: Psychedelics — The Mushroom's Message
  • BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf

  • · Ep 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)

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 New York Next Generation mathematics standard.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. New York adopted the NGSS verbatim as the P-12 Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS, December 2016), so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry. We verified the performance-expectation text against NYSED's own High School science document; it is identical to the NGSS. There is no laboratory work, no investigation, and no modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
• The Opium Wars and the Haitian Revolution — New York's framework never names them. The catalog teaches both in depth (the Opium Wars and Lin Zexu's letter; the Haitian Revolution through to the 1825 indemnity). We searched the full Grades 9-12 Social Studies Framework and it contains no Key Idea on either — unlike Washington, D.C., whose standards name them explicitly (WH2.53, WH2.40). The gap is in New York's standards, not the lessons.
• The New York Civics flagship's structure lessons have mostly no New York code to cite. New York Civics: How Your State Government Works teaches New York's 1894 constitution and its automatic 20-year convention question, the plural executive (a separately-elected Attorney General and Comptroller), the famously inverted court names (the “Supreme Court” is the TRIAL court), the 62 counties with New York City's five borough-counties, and the absence of any statewide citizen initiative — from New York's own official sources. But the Grade 12 Participation in Government framework is overwhelmingly FEDERAL: state government enters only through 12.G1b (state constitutions and their localities), 12.G4d (which names New York's party system), and the public-policy standards 12.G5a/12.G5c — which the course backs. The inverted court names, the plural executive, the 20-year convention question, and the no-initiative rule have no code to cite. The gap is in the standards, not the course.
• The Great Migration and the labor movement have no single Key Idea of their own. Two entire courses teach the Great Migration and the American labor movement, but New York's framework distributes their content across Key Ideas about their eras (11.4a's Reconstruction, 11.5b's Progressive-Era reform, 11.6c's WWI effects, 11.10a's civil-rights movement, and the economics standard 12.E3b) rather than giving either its own standard. We map only where the framework names their people and events, and we mark those partial. The catalog's depth on both exceeds what any one New York Key Idea asks.
• Personal finance and macroeconomic measurement (Economics 12.E1, 12.E4a-c). Budgeting, credit, investment, inflation, GDP/GNP/CPI, and fiscal and monetary policy were checked against the Grade 12 Economics framework and are not genuinely taught by these courses. We claim only the labor-market, market-mechanics, and trade-policy standards the catalog actually reaches.
• The rest of the Grade 11 U.S. History framework. Colonial and constitutional foundations (11.1-11.2), expansion and sectionalism (11.3), the rise of American power and WWI beyond the Great Migration (11.6), World War II (11.8), the Cold War beyond the Eastern-Europe collapse (11.9a-c), the post-1965 domestic movements (11.10b-c), and the globalizing world (11.11) are not genuinely taught by this catalog, so we do not claim them.
• The science/technical (RST) literacy strand and the general ELA reading/writing standards. New York publishes a separate Reading in Science and Technical Subjects (RST) literacy strand and a general ELA reading/writing set. This catalog's honest literacy home is the Reading and Writing in History/Social Studies (RH/WHST) strand, mapped above; the RST science-literacy standards and the general ELA standards are not claimed here.
• The AI-literacy ladder, the language courses, and Learning How to Learn — deferred, not denied. New York's closest frameworks (the Computer Science and Digital Fluency Standards, and the World Languages standards) have not been fetched and verified yet. Our rule is fetch-or-don't-cite, so these courses carry no New York claims this pass.