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Chapters 1-5

Chapter 1:

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Peters, Julie Anne. Define Normal. Little, Brown, and Company, 2000.

• The book opens in a school office where peer counseling is taking place.

• The narrator of the book is the counselor, Antonia Dillon.

• Antonia is indignant because the student coming into the office is Jazz Luther.

• Antonia notices the appearance of Jazz: shredded jeans, black lips, and purple hair.

• The school counselor, Dr. DiLeo, is not present, and Jazz jokes that he probably ran to 7-Eleven to get more Tic Tacs.

• Antonia believes that Jazz "was hopeless. A punker. A druggie. A gang hanger" (2).

• Jazz responds to Antonia with a joke when Antonia asked Jazz why she was at the session: "It keeps me off the streets" (2).

• Jazz is required to do 15 hours of counseling during the term.

• Amanda notices the piercing in...

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