Please have your spiral out. thursday, 5.5 and Friday, 5.6 Please have your spiral out.

Today’s agenda – Serial, episode 5 Listen to first 28 minutes of episode – the route; take notes on any information that stands out to you, confuses you, serves as a ‘red flag’ for you Map the route using google maps, cell tower map, adnan’s cell phone log

Put your detective hats on! In this episode, the narrator and her friend actually drive the route that Jay described in order to test the accuracy of the state’s timeline on January 13, 1999. With a partner, you will plot the general location of adnan’s phone on the day of hae’s disappearance and compare this chronicle with jay’s account of the day. As you listen, record any information that seems important, confuses you, brings up a new perspective or question, and/or serves as a ‘red flag’ for you.

Cell tower technology record this information in your spiral. Cell towers have 3 sides, like slices of a pie. The “A” side generally points north or northwest, the “b” side points south or southeast, and the “c” side points west

What we didn’t hear The remaining portion of the episode is rather dry and boring. Record this information in your spiral: Cell phone evidence isn’t perfectly reliable, but it can offer clues of where somebody was, and it can certainly show where someone wasn’t. The prosecutors showed that four of the calls on the call log perfectly corroborated Jay’s story (all four were after 6:00 p.m.), but didn’t really discuss the rest, and nobody really noticed.

Mapping the calls When you’re done, compare your map to your notes on Jay’s story. To what degree does the map corroborate Jay’s story? Is it truthful enough to convict Adnan, is it so impossible that you have to throw out Jay’s testimony, or is it somewhere in the middle? Explain.

monday, may 9 and Tuesday, may 12 Please have your spirals out.

episode 6 – the case against adnan syed Today’s agenda Looking forward Add questions to our ‘parking lot’ from episode 5 Listen to episode 6 – focus on the evidence against adnan; create counterpoint for the evidence, explain your reasoning Listen to episode 7; take notes about the important information you hear. The episode is almost entirely dedicated to Sarah’s conversation with Deirdre Enright, who runs an Innocent Project, an organization that goes through old cases to see if someone has been wrongfully convicted. You will take a quiz over episode 7 next class.

Evidence, Counter Argument, Your Opinion/Reasoning In this episode, the narrator “lays out” the “bits of evidence” against Adnan. You will Organize the “bits” of evidence” and the corresponding defenses into three columns. Use the handout provided. In the first column, briefly summarize a bit of evidence in the second column, present a counter-argument or two against the evidence in the third column, write your opinion and the reasoning for it.