Kentucky standards alignment

• HS.C.I.UE.1

  Covered

  Evaluate the credibility of multiple sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in civics.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Psychedelics — The Mushroom's Message
  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • BVC: Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • BVC: Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • BVC: Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • BVC: Coca — White Lines
  • BVC: Tobacco — Sacred Smoke
  • BVC: Khat — The Afternoon Leaf
  • BVC: Beer — Liquid Bread
  • BVC: Cannabis — The Green Revolution

  • · Ep 19 · Peer Review Versus Press Release
  • · Every course's Sources bibliography, with per-claim verification
  • · 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 15 · Doubt Is Our Product
  • · Ep 20 · The Ban Against the Evidence (the UK banning khat against its own scientific advice)
  • · 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

  Note: Evaluating sources of differing perspectives for credibility — the standard's exact skill — is the catalog's signature method: differing first-person accounts weighed against each other, claims tested for fallacy, and media read for what it omits.

• HS.C.PR.3

  Partially covered

  Evaluate intended and unintended consequences of public policies locally, nationally and internationally.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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: The standard's own headline example — Prohibition (the 18th Amendment) and its unintended consequences (black markets, lost distilling and brewing jobs) — is taught directly, as is the War on Drugs' policy fallout. The standard's wider policy-evaluation inquiry across many policy areas is not run as a graded exercise, so this is partial.

• HS.C.I.UE.2

  Partially covered

  Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in civics.

  Covered by

  • BVC: Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, climate-vulnerability report, 3+ peer-reviewed sources, APA bibliography
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, primary-source research paper with an APA bibliography
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option B, 3+ peer-reviewed sources and an APA bibliography
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option C, interview ethics: informed consent, right to review

  What we do and don't cover: Gathering evidence from credible, varied sources is taught and practiced in the Coffee research project, which is the one episode currently shipping a graded research assignment, so this is partial.

• HS.C.I.UE.3

  Partially covered

  Use appropriate evidence to construct and revise claims and counterclaims relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in civics.

  Covered by

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

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, a 1,200-1,500 word research paper with a required counterargument section
  • · 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: Constructing and revising claims from evidence is taught, and the Coffee project's argument paper runs it as a graded task, but only that episode currently ships the assignment, so this is partial.

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 Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics standard.
• English/Language Arts — Kentucky's OWN post-Common-Core standards: deferred. Kentucky replaced its earlier Common Core adoption with its own Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2019), a post-Common-Core revision under Kentucky's own organization. The shared Common Core ELA mapping this catalog uses in Common Core states does NOT apply in Kentucky. The catalog's ELA-literacy strengths — evaluating an author's point of view and evidence, analyzing rhetoric, and sustained research with citation — would map to Kentucky's own reading and writing standards, but transcribing and verifying those verbatim is deferred this pass (verbatim-or-nothing) and published here rather than claimed unverified.
• Science — one partial claim, via the shared NGSS file. Kentucky was an NGSS lead state and adopted the NGSS verbatim as the Kentucky Academic Standards for Science, so our one honest science claim — HS-ESS3-1, partial — comes through the shared NGSS mapping with the limit stated on the entry (verified against Kentucky's own Earth Space Science course standards). There is no laboratory work, investigation, or modelling in this catalog, and we will not claim more.
• Kentucky's own state structure is taught more fully than HS.C.KGO.1-3 capture. The Kentucky Government cluster (HS.C.KGO.1-3) is the flagship's home, but Kentucky's most distinctive facts — the odd-numbered-year statewide election cycle, the comparatively WEAK gubernatorial veto (a simple-majority override), the fully nonpartisan elected judiciary with 8-year Supreme Court terms, the 120 counties (third-most of any state) and Louisville Metro consolidation, and the ABSENCE of a citizen initiative (amendments proposed by a three-fifths General Assembly vote and ratified by voters) — are folded into those three indicators rather than each having a code of its own.
• The founding-philosophy and political-science Civics indicators we checked and rejected. HS.C.CP.3 (comparing forms of government and how each maintains order and interacts within the international community), HS.C.CV.1 (how classical republicanism, natural rights philosophy, and English common law influenced the Founders), HS.C.CV.2 (the abstract expansion of civic virtues, democratic principles, and human rights influencing individuals and groups), HS.C.PR.2 (the role of elections, bureaucracy, political parties, interest groups, and media in shaping public policy — our media literacy is consumer/source literacy, not political-media analysis), and HS.C.PR.4 (comparing the domestic and foreign policies of the United States and other countries) — the courses do not genuinely teach these, or teach them too thinly to claim, so we do not claim them.
• The civics inquiry PRACTICES we did not claim (only the 'Using Evidence' strand is claimed). The KAS civics standards weave the C3 inquiry practices through the discipline: HS.C.I.Q.1-2 (generating compelling and supporting questions) and HS.C.I.CC.1-3 (engaging in civil discussion and reaching consensus, constructing arguments and public communications, and proposing a solution or action plan). These are run as classroom inquiry the catalog does not deliver as graded work, so we do not claim them. The one inquiry strand where the catalog genuinely delivers — Using Evidence (HS.C.I.UE.1-3: evaluating source credibility, gathering evidence, and constructing and revising claims) — is claimed above.
• Kentucky's other Social Studies disciplines — Economics, Geography, and History — deferred. The KAS for Social Studies (2019) also carries high-school Economics, Geography, and U.S./World History disciplines. The catalog's commodity, colonial, labor, civil-rights, and Cold-War history and its commodity economics WOULD map to those strands, as they do in other states, but we mapped the High School Civics strand this pass and defer the rest rather than cite text we did not transcribe this pass (verbatim-or-nothing).