State Standards – North Carolina

NC Standard Course of Study (2009-2010)

The wave of tougher classroom standards that swept across the nation in the late 1990s had some common themes: complicated economic ideas such as “opportunity cost” are now taught in elementary grades; a state’s own history gets in-depth treatment in fourth grade; ancient cultures across the globe are more important to the curriculum; US History now includes much more diversity in the stories it tells. Each state has put its own spin on these ideas. Here is how the line of Chester’s Comix with Content can help teachers in this state address those standards.

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GRADE/Course	STANDARD	STANDARD’S AREA	MATCHING TITLE
3rd GRADE/ Citizenship	Competency Goal 1: Objective 1.02, 1.06	citizenship, history	Founding Fathers Wonder Women Civil Rights Freedom Train
	Competency Goal 5	economics	Comix Economix
	Competency Goal 7: Objective 7.02	history, language arts	Heroic Folk
4th GRADE/ NC Geography and History	Competency Goal 1	geography	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 2: Objective 2.02	cultural history	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 3: Objective 3.02	history	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 3: Objective 3.03	history	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 3: Objective 3.05	history	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 4: Objective 4.05	history	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 6	economics	Comix Economix
5th GRADE/ U.S., Canada, Mexico	Competency Goal 2: Objective 2.01	government	Constitution Construction
	Competency Goal 2: Objective 2.02, 2.05	government	GOVERNMENT By the People
	Competency Goal 3: Objective 3.02	cultural history	Moving and Grooving
	Competency Goal 4: Objective 4.02	cultural history	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 4: Objective 4.05	history	Civil War vol. 1 Civil War vol. 2 World War 2 Tales
	Competency Goal 4: Objective 4.06	history, government	Civil Rights Freedom Train
	Competency Goal 5	economics	Comix Economix
6th GRADE/ Europe, South America	Competency Goal 7	history	World War 2 Tales
	Competency Goal 8	history	Exploring the Americas
7th GRADE/ Africa, Asia, Australia	Competency Goal 4	economics, geography	Ancient Africa
	Competency Goal 5	economics, geography	Ancient Africa
8th GRADE/ Development of NC	Competency Goal 1: Objective 1.01	geography	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 1: Objective 1.03	history	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 1: Objective 1.07	history	Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 2: Objective 2.01	history	Revolutionary Rumblings War for Independence
	Competency Goal 2: Objective 2.04	history	War for Independence
	Competency Goal 2: Objective 2.05	history	Revolutionary Rumblings Constitution Construction
	Competency Goal 4: Objective 4.01-4.03	history	Civil War vol. 1 Civil War vol. 2 Tar Heel Tales
	Competency Goal 4: Objective 4.05	history	Reconstruction Junction
	Competency Goal 5: Objective 5.01	economics, history	Tar Heel Tales
11th GRADE/ US History	Competency Goal 1: Objective 1.01	history	Lewis & Clark Transportation for a New Nation
	Competency Goal 2: Objective 2.01, 2.03	history	Go West Young Crab! Slavery’s Storm
	Competency Goal 3: Objective 3.01-3.03	history	Slavery’s Storm Civil War vol. 1 Civil War vol. 2
	Competency Goal 3: Objective 3.04-3.05	history	Reconstruction Junction
	Competency Goal 10: Objective 10.01-10.02	history	World War 2 Tales
	Competency Goal 11: Objective 11.02	history	Civil Rights Freedom Train
African American Studies	Competency Goal 1	history, geography	Ancient Africa
	Competency Goal 2	history, geography	Slavery’s Storm Wonder Women
	Competency Goal 4: Objective 4.03-4.04	history	Reconstruction Junction
	Competency Goal 8	history	Civil Rights Freedom Train Vital Virginians
American Government	Competency Goal 1: Objective 1.01-1.03	history, government	Constitution Construction
	Competency Goal 1: Objective 1.04	biography, government	Founding Fathers
	Competency Goal 2	government	GOVERNMENT By the People
	Competency Goal 3	government	GOVERNMENT By the People
American Indian Studies	Competency Goal 1	history, geography	First Americans
	Competency Goal 2: Objective 2.01, 2.02	history, geography	Exploring the Americas
	Competency Goal 4: Objective 4.01-4.03	history, geography	First Americans
Economics		economics	Comix Economix