The document summarizes chapters from a book called "Bifocal". It provides details on several topics: 1) Mr. Pruit offers no new information about the school lockdown as no one knows more than what was reported. 2) Jay thinks Mr. Pruit's language describing the football team as a "war zone" is strange given the recent lockdown event at the school. 3) The locker of the student arrested has been emptied except for a white powder, with the door removed and marked off with tape and cones.

1. BIFOCAL
CHAPTER 5
NOVEMBER 2019
M. RIDDELL

2. 1. DOES MR. PRUIT OFFER ANY NEW DETAILS? WHY
NOT?
• NO, HE DOES NOT.
• NO ONE AT SCHOOL KNOWS ANYMORE THAN WHAT WAS ON THE TELEVISION
NEWS AND IN THE NEWSPAPER.

3. 2. WHY DOES JAY THINK THE LANGUAGE MR.
PRUIT IS USING TO DESCRIBE THE TEAM IS
STRANGE?
• COACH PRUIT REFERS TO FOOTBALL AS:
• A WAR ZONE
• TAKING NO PRISONERS
• KILLING THE OPPOSITION
• BLOWING THEM OFF THE FIELD
• IT SEEMS STRANGE TO REFER TO WAR AND KILLING WHEN YESTERDAY THEIR
SCHOOL WAS UNDER LOCKDOWN AND SOMEONE COULD HAVE ACTUALLY
BLOWN IT UP

4. 3. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE LOCKER OF
THE GUY WHO GOT ARRESTED?
• THE DOOR HAD BEEN REMOVED.
• IT HAD LITTLE ORANGE PYLONS IN FRONT OF IT.
• THERE WAS YELLOW TAPE ACROSS THE DOOR.
• IT WAS EMPTY EXCEPT FOR A DUSTING OF WHITE POWDER.

5. 4. WHO DOES JAY BUMP INTO IN THE
HALLWAY? HOW DOES HE KNOW HER?
• ZANA, HAROON’S SISTER
• JAY KNOWS HER FROM GEOGRAPHY CLASS
• SHE WAS ALSO HIS PARTNER FOR A SCIENCE PROJECT LAST YEAR

6. 5. WHO IS MOOSE? WHAT DO WE LEARN
FROM HIM?
• MOOSE IS A FOOTBALL PLAYER
• THAT SOMETIMES HE GOES TO THE PRAYER GROUP AND SOMETIMES HE GOES
TO MCDONALD’S
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7. 6. WHAT DOES JAY LEARN FROM MUSTAFA
ABOUT ISLAM?
• SOME MUSLIM KIDS MEET IN THE SHOP TO STUDY THE KORAN AND SAY
PRAYERS
• MUSLIMS ARE SUPPOSED TO PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY
• ONE TIME IS AROUND NOON

8. 7. WHAT DID THE FIRE ALARM TURN OUT TO
BE?
• A SMOKE BOMB

9. 8. WHAT ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING MOTIVE
DOES JAY MAKE ABOUT THE FIRE ALARM?
• AT FIRST HE THINKS IT IS A FALSE ALARM
• THEN HE THINKS IT WAS A BOMB SET OFF ON A TIMER OR BY AZEEM’S FRIENDS