Weekly Agenda

Learning Target: Students will notate examples of racial profiling and Adnan's attorney's attempt to negate that bias.

Judging Genre response due

Serial: Episode 10

Learning Target: Students apply information about connotation to the concept of racial bias in order to discuss how word choice impacted Adnan's trial.

The Scale of Justice Analysis

Learning Target: Students notate transcripts for information about Adnan's personality and psychological state, the concept of "snapping," what it means to be in a dissociative state, and the definition of psychopathy.

Serial: Episode 11

Learning Target: Students will summarize various character testimonies and then determine whether those testimonies support Adnan's guilt or innocence.

Serial: Psychotic Possibilities

Learning Target: Students will compare and contrast their own situation to the situation Adnan is in regarding perceived innocence via a letter.

Listen to Episode 11 from 33 min mark until the end

Serial: The Innocence Dilemma