Louisiana standards alignment

• C.6

  Partially covered

  Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to: a. Analyze social studies content. b. Evaluate claims, counterclaims, and evidence. c. Compare and contrast multiple sources and accounts. d. Explain how the availability of sources affects historical interpretations.

  Covered by

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

  • · 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)
  • · The Great Migration · every lesson carries a primary-source pointer to its real archive
  • · The Great Migration, Lesson 5 · Arrival (the Philadelphia “500% growth” claim, checked against the raw census figures it fails)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the curriculum models exactly this — evaluating claims and counterclaims, reading authors' differing accounts of the same events against each other (Whose Voice), and turning source availability into a limitations-of-evidence lesson. But sustained STUDENT-run source analysis is prompted (the Coffee project), not assessed course-wide.

• C.7

  Partially covered

  Construct and express claims that are supported with relevant evidence from primary and/or secondary sources, social studies content knowledge, and clear reasoning and explanations to: a. Demonstrate an understanding of social studies content. b. Compare and contrast content and viewpoints. c. Analyze causes and effects. d. Evaluate counterclaims.

  Covered by

  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection

  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, Option D, a 1,200-1,500 word research paper with a required counterargument section
  • · Ep 1 · Assignment, all four options are 2-3 week research projects requiring synthesis across sources

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the Coffee project's Option D asks for precisely this — an evidence-based argument with a required counterargument (counterclaim) section — but it is one optional project in one episode, not a course-wide writing program.

• C.12.b

  Partially covered

  Analyze the development, implementation, and consequences of U.S. foreign and domestic policies over time, including how U.S. policies are influenced by other countries and how they influence political debates.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · 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
  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · Ep 8 · Prohibition, the Experiment That Failed
  • · Ep 8 · Selling Prohibition (the rhetoric that drove the movement)

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: specific domestic and foreign policies and their consequences are analyzed in depth — the War on Drugs (including its foreign-policy arm and the balloon effect), the U.S. sugar program, and Prohibition. This is not a general survey of U.S. policy across the fields the expectation lists.

• C.13.b

  Partially covered

  Compare and contrast capitalism and socialism as economic systems.

  Covered by

  • Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • Kava — The Root of Peace
  • My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis

  • · Ep 5 · The Reciprocity Economy
  • · Ep 6 · Ceremony Meets the Market
  • · Ep 7 · Two Ways of Doing Economics
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 3 · A workers' state with a worker problem
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 7 · 13 December 1981: the state answers (martial law)
  • · Poland: Solidarność, Lesson 8 · 1989: a union negotiates a state out of existence

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: two comparisons are taught — traditional (reciprocity) economies against market economies, directly and at length, and a communist workers' state against the independent union that unmade it (Poland, 1980-1989). A textbook capitalism-versus-socialism definition is not the frame.

• C.13.d

  Partially covered

  Analyze the role of government institutions in developing and implementing economic policies, and explain the effects of government policies on market outcomes, including both intended and unintended consequences.

  Covered by

  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution

  • · Ep 4 · The Hidden Costs of Cheap Sugar
  • · 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: the intended-and-unintended-consequences frame is worked through real policies — the U.S. sugar program (intended: stable prices; unintended: a multibillion-dollar consumer cost) and the War on Drugs (the balloon effect as an unintended-consequences lesson by name). It is not a general treatment of economic-policy institutions.

• C.13.g

  Partially covered

  Explain the effects of specialization and trade on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services for individuals, businesses, and societies.

  Covered by

  • Coffee — The Daily Global Connection
  • Tea — The Way of Tea
  • Chocolate — Food of the Gods
  • My Daily Altar — Season Synthesis
  • Sugar — The Sweet Revolution
  • Guayusa & Kola Nut — Forest Wisdom
  • Kava — The Root of Peace

  • · 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 7 · Who Captures the Value
  • · 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

  What we do and don't cover: Partial: the effects of trade on production, distribution, and whole societies are the series' spine — who is paid what along commodity value chains, the commodity trap, and the growing belts that make regions specialize. The formal 'specialization and comparative advantage' vocabulary is not taught by name.

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 Louisiana mathematics standard (the Louisiana Student Standards for Mathematics, Louisiana's own since it replaced Common Core).
• English Language Arts — deferred, and deliberately NOT aliased. Louisiana replaced Common Core with its own Louisiana Student Standards for ELA. Those standards may be Common-Core-derived, but our rule is compare-before-aliasing: we have not fetched and compared the Louisiana ELA document this pass, so we do NOT alias Louisiana onto the shared Common Core file, and we make no Louisiana ELA claim yet. The catalog's media-literacy, rhetoric, and argument-writing teaching would be the candidates when it is fetched.
• Science — deferred, and deliberately NOT aliased. Louisiana's science is Louisiana's own. Louisiana's science standards (the 2017 Louisiana Student Standards for Science) are NGSS-BASED, but they are Louisiana's own document with Louisiana's own adoption. Blind-aliasing Louisiana onto our shared NGSS file without confirming the codes and text match would violate the rule, so we have not done it; the two Earth-science claims used elsewhere would be the candidates once the Louisiana document is fetched and compared.
• Civics expectations we checked and do NOT claim. C.8.b/c/e/f (comparing systems of government, the Enlightenment philosophers, ratification debates, and natural-rights theory), C.9.d (the executive branch's Cabinet, executive orders, and the 'bully pulpit'), C.9.g/h (constructionist interpretation by name; how governments raise and allocate revenue), C.10.d (equal protection and due process doctrine), C.11.c/g/h/i/j (political parties and interest groups; gerrymandering and turnout; the media's effect on politics — our media-literacy work is consumer protection, not political-media analysis; Louisiana's congressional redistricting), C.12.a/c/e (the policy-fields survey; U.S. interactions with other nations; post-WWII international law), C.13.a/c/e/f (Adam Smith and the invisible hand; government-regulation perspectives; market structures and factors of production), and all of C.14 (personal financial literacy) are not genuinely taught by these courses, so we do not claim them.