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Standards Crosswalk

How the published Pharos Terminal courses line up with state academic standards in English language arts, science, and social studies for grades 7–12. West Virginia is the published alignment. This page adds how the same courses map to the current official standards in Virginia, Ohio, and Florida.

Covers published courses as of November 2026. Standards documents were read on November 12, 2026.

How to read this page

“Aligned to” means West Virginia.

Each course’s West Virginia codes were checked word for word against the official West Virginia policy text: Policy 2520.1A (English language arts), Policy 2520.4 (social studies), and Policy 2520.3C (science, where a course lists science codes).

“Maps to” and “supports” mean Virginia, Ohio, and Florida.

Every Virginia, Ohio, and Florida code on this page was read in that state’s official standards document. A course “maps to” a standard when its subject and primary sources plainly address that standard’s content. It “supports” a standard when related content is present but the standard asks for more than the course covers.

Fit is judged course by course.

Strong: the course’s subject and sources plainly address the standard. Partial: related content is present, or the best fit is a different grade band. Gap: a state requirement the course does not cover, or no published mapping yet.

Math is not claimed.

Where a course uses numbers, data, or modeling, we describe that work as applied, practical math and data. We do not list math standards for any state on this page.

Homeschool families

Homeschool families in Virginia, Ohio, and Florida are not required to follow these state academic standards. Families use a crosswalk like this as portfolio vocabulary, and as a bridge if a student later enters or returns to a public school. For the home-instruction rules that apply to your family, see your state department of education’s home-instruction page.

Course by course

The French and Indian War

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia social studies and ELA, grades 8–12 (for example SS.USC.4, SS.US.7, SS.US.12, SS.8.15, SS.8.20; ELA.9.4, ELA.9.17, ELA.8.4).

Virginia

Strong

Maps to Virginia VUS.4 (competition among the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Indigenous nations for control of North America) and VUS.5 (results of the French and Indian War). Supports Virginia English 9.RI.1 / 11.RI.1 and 9.W.1 / 11.W.1.

Ohio

Strong at grade 8; partial at high school

Maps to Ohio Grade 8 content statements 2 and 3 (European colonization; competition for territory among colonizing powers). Ohio’s high-school American History course begins in 1877, so this course is not a high-school American History match in Ohio.

Florida

Strong at grade 8; partial at high school

Maps to Florida SS.8.A.2.6 (causes, course, and consequences of the French and Indian War) and SS.8.A.3.1 (consequences for British colonial policy after 1763). Florida’s high-school American History (SS.912.A) does not cover this war.

The American Revolution

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia social studies and ELA, grades 8–12 (for example SS.USC.4, SS.US.7, SS.US.19, SS.C.3, SS.C.5, SS.8.21; ELA.9.4, ELA.11.16, ELA.11.17).

Virginia

Strong

Maps to Virginia VUS.5 (issues and events leading to and during the revolutionary period). Supports Virginia CE.1 and GOVT.1–GOVT.3 for the founding-document work, and English 9.RI.1, 11.RI.1, and 11.W.1.

Ohio

Strong at grade 8, with civics; partial at high school

Maps to Ohio Grade 8 content statements 5–7 (the Enlightenment and dissatisfaction leading to the Declaration and the Revolution; key events and figures; independence and new political relationships). Supports Ohio American History content statements 4–5 (the Declaration and the Northwest Ordinance as founding documents) and American Government content statement 5.

Florida

Strong at grade 8, with civics; partial at high school

Maps to Florida SS.8.A.3.2–SS.8.A.3.8 (British policy after 1763, the Founding Fathers, the course of the Revolution, the Declaration). Florida civics carries the founding ideas: maps to SS.912.CG.1.1–SS.912.CG.1.4 and SS.7.CG.1.5–SS.7.CG.1.6.

The Constitution: Founding the Republic, 1776–1791

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia social studies and ELA, grades 8–12 (for example SS.C.2, SS.C.3, SS.C.5–11, SS.USC.1, SS.USC.2, SS.US.6, SS.8.4; ELA.9.16, ELA.11.16, ELA.11.32).

Virginia

Strong

Maps to Virginia VUS.6 (founding documents and American constitutional government), CE.1 (foundations of American constitutional democracy, including the Declaration, the Articles, and the ratification debates), and GOVT.1 and GOVT.3 (foundations; the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Federalist Nos. 10 and 51).

Ohio

Strong

Maps to Ohio American History content statements 4, 6, and 7 (the Declaration; the Constitution and the relationship between the people and their government; the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights), American Government content statements 5–8, and Grade 8 content statements 8–9 (the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution; early presidential administrations).

Florida

Strong

Maps to Florida SS.8.A.3.10–SS.8.A.3.11 (the Constitutional Convention; Federalists, the Federalist Papers, Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights), SS.7.CG.1.7–SS.7.CG.1.10, and SS.912.CG.1.3–SS.912.CG.1.5 (from the Articles to the Constitution, the Preamble, limits on power, Federalist arguments, constitutional principles).

Take Care: The American Presidents and the Power They Hold

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia social studies and ELA, grades 10–12 (for example SS.C.2, SS.C.4–12, SS.USC.2, SS.USC.21–30, SS.US.19–23, SS.CS.16–20; ELA grades 10–12 argument and research codes).

Virginia

Strong

Maps to Virginia GOVT.8 (scope and limits of the executive branch under Article II), with GOVT.7 and GOVT.9 (the legislative and judicial counterparts). Supports VUS.6 and later VUS standards on how the office is used in major periods.

Ohio

Strong for American Government

Maps to Ohio American Government (constitutional structure, national institutions, and the Founding Documents theme) and Grade 8 content statement 9 (early administrations). Supports Ohio American History for the later periods (Depression, war, and post-1945 presidents).

Florida

Strong for civics

Maps to Florida SS.912.CG.3.4 (structure, functions, and processes of the executive branch as described in Article II), SS.7.CG.3.8, and SS.7.CG.3.14 (the executive branch; the Electoral College). Supports SS.912.A.6.13, SS.912.A.7.4, and SS.912.A.7.10 for later-period presidential policy.

World War II

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia social studies (for example SS.USC.4, SS.USC.5, SS.USC.9, SS.USC.26, SS.CS.6–8, SS.CS.13, SS.W.24, SS.W.25).

Virginia

Strong

Maps to Virginia VUS.13 (the Great Depression and the New Deal), VUS.14 (U.S. involvement in World War II, including totalitarian regimes and Pearl Harbor), and VUS.15 (the early Cold War). Supports WHII.9 and WHII.10 on the world-history side.

Ohio

Strong

Maps to Ohio American History content statements in the Great Depression, World War II, and Cold War topics (including content statement 19 on the Great Depression) and to Ohio Modern World History, where World War II and the Holocaust appear.

Florida

Strong

Maps to Florida SS.912.A.5.11 (the Depression and the New Deal), SS.912.A.6.1–SS.912.A.6.7 and SS.912.A.6.10 (World War II and the early Cold War, including SS.912.A.6.3 on the Holocaust), and SS.912.W.7.7, SS.912.W.7.8, and SS.912.W.7.11. Supports selected Holocaust Education benchmarks where the lessons already treat the subject (for example SS.912.HE.1.1, SS.912.HE.2.15, SS.912.HE.3.4). See the gaps section below.

Promise and Record: Communism and the Writers Who Answered It

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia social studies and ELA, grades 10–12 (for example SS.W.9, SS.W.20, SS.W.24, SS.C.4, SS.C.11, SS.USC.28, SS.CS.10, SS.E.3; ELA grades 11–12 literary and argument codes).

Virginia

Strong

Maps to Virginia WHII.10 (the Cold War), VUS.15, and GOVT.13 (evaluating economic and political systems, including capitalism). Supports Virginia English 11.RL.1, 11.RI.1, 11.W.1, and 11.DSR, with grade 10 and 12 counterparts.

Ohio

Strong

Maps to Ohio Modern World History and the Cold War topic in Ohio American History. Supports Ohio ELA RL.11-12.1, RI.11-12.1, and W.11-12.1 (and the grade 9–10 pair), with Contemporary World Issues as a further partial fit.

Florida

Strong

Maps to Florida’s History of Communism benchmarks now posted on CPALMS, especially SS.912.HC.4.14 (realities of life in the Soviet Union through notable literary works), plus SS.912.HC.1.6–SS.912.HC.1.9, SS.912.HC.2.1–SS.912.HC.2.6, SS.912.HC.4.5, and SS.912.HC.4.9–SS.912.HC.4.13. Supports SS.912.W.8.2, SS.912.A.6.10, ELA.11.R.1.1, and ELA.K12.EE.1.1.

Hollywood on History

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia social studies and ELA, grades 11–12 (for example SS.USC.4, SS.USC.8, SS.USC.19, SS.C.12, SS.C.17, SS.CS.13, SS.W.22, SS.W.25; ELA grades 11–12 comparison and argument codes).

Virginia

Partial to strong, by film unit

Maps to Virginia CE.9 (media influence) and the skills strand that opens each Virginia history course. Period units map to the matching standard (for example VUS.9, VUS.14, WHII.8–WHII.9). Supports Virginia English 11.RI, 11.W, and 11.C (communications and media).

Ohio

Partial to strong, by film unit

Maps to Ohio American History or Modern World History content statements for the period each film covers. Supports Ohio ELA informational and argument standards, and American Government or Contemporary World Issues where a lesson is about persuasion and public memory.

Florida

Partial to strong, by film unit

Maps to Florida SS.912.A.1.1–SS.912.A.1.5 (historical inquiry, primary and secondary sources, evaluating images and media), period matches such as SS.912.A.5.6 (Hollywood in the 1920s), SS.912.A.6.1, and SS.912.W.7.7, and the civics media benchmarks SS.912.CG.2.8, SS.912.CG.2.13, and SS.7.CG.2.8–SS.7.CG.2.9. Supports ELA.11.R.2 and ELA.11.C.

Silent Fracture: AI, Cyber War and the Next American Conflict

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia social studies and ELA codes (for example SS.C.4, SS.C.12, SS.C.17, SS.CS.3, SS.USC.4, SS.W.14, SS.W.26; ELA.9.12, ELA.9.16, ELA.9.31, ELA.11.31). The course’s published science claim is unverified and under review; no science standards are listed for it on this page.

Virginia

Partial

Supports Virginia VUS.17 (political and social conditions in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries), GOVT.12 (the United States in a changing world), CE.9 (media), and English 9.RI / 9.W and 11.RI / 11.W for evidence and argument.

Ohio

Partial

Supports Ohio American History content statements 32–33 (post–Cold War national-security and economic challenges after September 11, 2001), Contemporary World Issues, American Government civic-involvement and public-policy statements, and Ohio ELA RI and W for grades 9–12.

Florida

Partial

Supports Florida SS.912.A.7.12 and SS.912.A.7.15 (late-century and early-twenty-first-century concerns; effects of foreign and domestic terrorism), SS.912.CG.2.8 and SS.912.CG.2.12–SS.912.CG.2.13 (interest groups, media, the internet in political communication), and ELA.9.R.2 / ELA.9.C.

Could It Really Work? The Real Science of Science Fiction

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia science, grades 9–12 (for example S.PS.1, S.PS.5, S.PS.18, S.B.1, S.B.4, S.ESS.4, S.ESS.15, S.ENV.7), with grade 7–8 science companions. Quantitative work is applied, practical math and data.

Virginia

Strong

Maps to Virginia BIO.1 and ES.1 (scientific and engineering practices) and the 2018 high-school Biology, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Physics standards that treat living systems, energy, and Earth-space systems.

Ohio

Partial (statement-level review in progress)

Supports Ohio’s 2018 Science standards: Nature of Science, scientific practices, and the high-school Physical Science and Biology courses. A statement-by-statement Ohio review is not yet finished, so Ohio is listed as partial.

Florida

Strong

Maps to current Florida science benchmarks on CPALMS, for example SC.912.N.1.1 (scientific investigation), SC.912.P.10.1 (forms of energy and transformation), SC.912.P.12.2 (motion), SC.912.E.5.2 (organization of matter in the universe), SC.912.L.18.7 (photosynthesis), SC.8.E.5.4 (gravity and orbital motion), and SC.7.N.1.1 (scientific investigation), where a lesson uses them.

Hemingway at War

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia ELA, grades 9–12 (for example ELA.10.1–3, ELA.10.20, ELA.11.1, ELA.11.7, ELA.11.14, ELA.12.1, ELA.12.9).

Virginia

Strong (English)

Maps to Virginia English 11.RL.1 (themes and character in American literature), 11.RI.1, 11.W.1, and 11.DSR, with grade 10 and 12 counterparts. Supports WHII.8 (World War I) and VUS.11 for history context.

Ohio

Strong (ELA)

Maps to Ohio ELA RL.11-12.1, RI.11-12.1, and W.11-12.1 (and the grade 9–10 equivalents). Supports the World War I topic in Ohio Modern World History.

Florida

Strong (ELA)

Maps to Florida ELA.11.R.1.1 (key elements of a literary text), ELA.K12.EE.1.1 (cite evidence), and the grade 9–12 communication and argument benchmarks (ELA.11.C). Supports SS.912.W.7 and SS.912.A.4.5 (United States involvement in World War I).

Steinbeck Country

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia ELA (for example ELA.10.1–4, ELA.10.7, ELA.10.8, ELA.10.14, ELA.10.20, ELA.11.3, ELA.11.15).

Virginia

Strong (English)

Maps to Virginia English 10.RL.1, 11.RL.1, 10.RI / 11.RI, and 10.W.1 / 11.W.1. Supports VUS.13 for Depression-era context.

Ohio

Strong (ELA)

Maps to Ohio ELA RL.9-10.1, RL.11-12.1, and W.9-10.1 / W.11-12.1. Supports Ohio American History content statement 19 (the Great Depression).

Florida

Strong (ELA)

Maps to Florida ELA.10.R.1.1, ELA.11.R.1.1, ELA.K12.EE.1.1, and ELA.10.C / ELA.11.C. Supports SS.912.A.5.11 (the Depression and the New Deal).

Through the Fading Darkness, Beyond the Fading Darkness, and Winter’s Ghosts

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia ELA and social studies: Revolution- and frontier-era codes (SS.US, SS.8, SS.C) plus ELA grade 8 and grade 11 literary, argument, and source codes. Winter’s Ghosts carries the smallest social-studies set (SS.C.1, SS.G.3, SS.US.5, SS.US.19).

Virginia

Strong (English); social studies follows the Revolution course

Maps to Virginia English 11.RL.1 and 11.RI.1. Supports Virginia VUS.4–VUS.6 for the Revolution and frontier setting; Winter’s Ghosts’ social-studies claim stays modest.

Ohio

Strong (ELA); partial to strong in social studies

Maps to Ohio ELA RL, RI, and W for grade 8 and grades 9–12. Social studies follows the same Grade 8 and founding-documents pattern as the Revolution course.

Florida

Strong (ELA); partial to strong in social studies

Maps to Florida grade 8 and grade 11 ELA reading and communication benchmarks. Social studies follows SS.8.A.3 and the civics founding-document benchmarks, not SS.912.A.

Reality Writes!

West Virginia

Aligned to West Virginia ELA and social studies: a wide ELA grade 11, grade 12, and ELA.C set, plus SS.CS, SS.USC, and SS.W research and content codes.

Virginia

Strong for method and writing

Maps to Virginia English 11.W.1, the grade 11 research and communication standards, 11.RI.1, and the skills strand that opens the 2023 history courses. Content fit depends on the student’s chosen subject.

Ohio

Strong for method and writing

Maps to Ohio ELA W.11-12.1 and related research standards, WHST literacy in history/social studies for grades 6–12, and Ohio American History content statements 1–3 (primary and secondary sources, theses, cause and effect).

Florida

Strong for method and writing

Maps to Florida ELA.11.C, ELA.K12.EE.1.1, ELA.11.R.2, and the historical-inquiry benchmarks SS.912.A.1.1–SS.912.A.1.2. The research method travels; a West Virginia historical subject may not match a Florida-specific topic.

Pitch to Profit: Entrepreneurship for the AI Age

West Virginia

No published West Virginia mapping yet. A first mapping, starting with West Virginia economics and career codes, comes before any other state.

Virginia

Gap until mapped

No Virginia mapping is published. A later pass will look at the Virginia civics and economics standards on economic decision-making and personal finance.

Ohio

Gap until mapped

No Ohio mapping is published. The natural home is Ohio Economics and Financial Literacy.

Florida

Gap until mapped

No Florida mapping is published. The natural home is Florida’s Financial Literacy strand (SS.912.FL) and selected economics benchmarks (SS.912.E).

Honest gaps

Florida: Holocaust Education (SS.912.HE)World War II maps to SS.912.A.6.3 and SS.912.W.7.8 and supports selected Holocaust Education benchmarks where its lessons already treat the subject. It covers only part of the SS.912.HE strand and is not a full Holocaust Education sequence.
Florida: African American History (SS.912.AA)No published course covers Florida’s African American History strand.
Florida: state-specific insertsFlorida-specific government comparisons (SS.7.CG.3.12) and Florida history inserts within SS.912.A are not covered.
Virginia: VUS.3, VUS.8, and VUS.16These Virginia and United States History standards (African American culture and slavery; abolition; the Civil Rights Movement) are part of Virginia’s official high-school history sequence. They are not the focus of our published history courses.
Virginia: Virginia governmentSeveral VUS and GOVT standards ask for Virginia documents and institutions alongside national ones: the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the Constitution of Virginia, and state and local government (GOVT.10). Our Constitution and civics work uses some of those founding texts, but no published course is a Virginia-government course.
Ohio: high-school American HistoryOhio’s high-school American History course runs from 1877 to the present. The French and Indian War, the Revolution, and the making of the Constitution sit in Ohio Grade 8 and American Government, so those courses map there rather than to high-school American History.
Pitch to ProfitNo published West Virginia mapping yet, and so no mapping in any other state.
Silent FractureIts published science claim is unverified and under review. No science standards are listed for it on this page, in any state.

Sources

Official state education department documents only. CPALMS is the official source named by the Florida Department of Education.

Virginia

Ohio

Florida

West Virginia

WVBE Policy 2520.1A (ELA), Policy 2520.4 (Social Studies), Policy 2520.3C (Science)

This crosswalk is updated as courses are added and as mappings are reviewed. It does not change what any course teaches.