New York standards alignment

• RH6

  Covered

  Evaluate authors' points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors' claims, reasoning, and evidence.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom

  • · 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 ELA alignment. 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. (New York's RH6 drops Common Core's word “differing”; the text above is New York's own.)

• RH9

  Covered

  Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

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

  Note: “Noting discrepancies among sources” is the whole point of the Nathan Green lesson: the documentary record and the oral record disagree, and the episode teaches why oral history is a legitimate scholarly method for resolving that.

• RH3

  Partially covered

  Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom

  • · 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: evaluating competing accounts of the same events against their evidence is the Whose Voice method. The standard's “acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain” is not itself a focus of the lessons.

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.