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Instructional Activity- Close Reading Title: NYPD Tapes to Begin Soon (attach the text or indicate textbook/page) Type of Text: Informational Grade Level: 9-10 Learning Objective:

Common Core Literacy Standards used in activity- See the Anchor Standards for Reading YELLOW BINDER PAGE

Instructional Plan: 1. Select a complex text that is relevant to the content so students will have background information and a context in which to understand the text. 2. Read the text out loud as students follow along, or students read text independently- depending on the needs of the students and the task. 3. Guide discussion of the text with a series of text dependent questions and tasks. 4. Give students a choice of constructed response writing prompts to assess understanding of the text. Text “chunked” Vocabulary Text-based questions Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday that he expects a New York Police Department Why did the author choose to begin this text this way? program that calls for the full videotaping of What does the term “traction” suggest in this context? interrogations in major crimes to be implemented Interrogations while he is still in office. Mr. Bloomberg said he supports the practice that is gaining traction nationally and has been endorsed by civil-liberties groups, defense Endorsed attorneys and members of law enforcement.

Last week, Police Commissioner Raymond Parkside High School: Common Core Activity Department______Teacher______Kelly said the NYPD will significantly expand the pilot program of videotaping interrogations to include all suspects of murder and sexual-assault Why does the author include direct quotes here? How cases in the city, but he offered no timeline. Significantly do these supporting details help the reader understand the text? "It takes a long time to get going because you want to make sure you do it right, but I certainly support Commissioner Kelly," Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference on an unrelated matter. "I think it's an idea that's time has come." When asked if the practice would be put in place before the next mayor takes office in January 2014, Mr. Bloomberg said: "I don't know that you'll get it every place but I think you make major progress within the next year, year and quarter." In his announcement last Wednesday, Mr. Kelly said the department would seek a $3 million grant from the nonprofit Police Foundation to outfit precincts with the equipment. Mr. Bloomberg on Monday said the city would find money within the department's multibillion- dollar budget, saying that it is not that costly of an endeavor. "I don't know that it can be done by, or should be done by, the private sector," he added.

Paul Browne, the chief spokesman for the NYPD, said an exact figure for the project's cost wasn't available on Monday. He said the mayor's Endeavor comments indicated that "there may be enough in Private sector the budget for it" but not that "Foundation support should be barred." "Regardless, the Foundation stands ready to kick-start the program with $3 million," he said in How are the viewpoints of people directly involved in an email. the decision making process expressed in this section? Parkside High School: Common Core Activity Department______Teacher______A spokeswoman for the Police Foundation Are these viewpoints in agreement? Disagreement? didn't respond to a request for comment. How do you know? Barred Mr. Browne said he agreed with the mayor's assessment that it could at least be partially implemented in just over a year. The practice of videotaping full-length interrogations of suspects began last year but was limited to felony assault suspects in the 48th Precinct in the Bronx and the 67th Precinct in Brooklyn. It was scheduled to expand to a precinct in each of the remaining boroughs this year, but Mr. Kelly abruptly announced last week that the anti-abuse initiative was being implemented at all 76 city precincts and would include murder and sex-crime investigations. The development was welcomed by the city's district attorneys and groups fighting wrongful convictions. It is viewed as both a deterrent to strong-arm police tactics that can lead to false confessions and claims by defendants that they were coerced into admitting guilt.

However, some investigators have been resistant, saying the tapes could give criminals a window into interview techniques and that juries may recoil at some of the more aggressive, but Deterrent legal, interrogation strategies. Tactics Michael Palladino, president of the NYPD's Detective Endowment Association, couldn't Coerced immediately be reached for comment Monday but said last month he had concerns. Parkside High School: Common Core Activity Department______Teacher______Mr. Bloomberg said the practice "protects people who are being interviewed and it protects the interviewers" while giving the public more What is the purpose of the term “however” which confidence. Currently, 341 of the state's 509 begins this section of the text? What should the reader police agencies record suspect interviews in some now know? crimes, typically in at least murder and rape Recoil investigations, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. No New York City cases have gone to trial in which an interrogation was fully recorded in the pilot program, although Mr. Kelly said last week about 300 interrogations had been recorded and resulted in "a number of early pleas." Why does this information appear near the end of the Queens City Council Member Peter Vallone Jr., text? the chairman of the council's Public Safety Committee, hailed the practice as an "effective prosecutorial tool" and said the program will likely be discussed during budget hearings in March 2013.

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Writing Prompt to Assess Student Understanding of Text

Analyze the authors’ purpose in the introduction of “NYPD Tapes to Begin Soon.” Include in your Parkside High School: Common Core Activity Department______Teacher______explanation examples of ways the author introduces and advances his purpose in your writing.

Identify one way the author advances his purpose for writing and analyze its effectiveness in conveying the message about interrogation room taping.

*After completing the lesson, attach student work as evidence.