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Part I (pages 1 - 63)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Magoon, Kekla. How It All Went Down. Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

• The novel begins with a single-page section titled The Incident. A third-person narrator relates in the past tense that on June 2, 16 year-old Tariq Johnson was shot, and the known facts surrounding his death are few.

• Johnson was shot twice in the torso with nine-millimeter bullets and pronounced dead at 6:02 p.m. on the scene.

• Police apprehended a person of interest, Jack Franklin, who was at the scene but had left in a borrowed car. He was pulled over several miles away and a recently fired nine-millimeter gun was in his car.

• Chatper 1, titled Pulse, begins with Jennica's narration.

• Jennica remembered the colors red, black and white from when Tariq was shot. She later found out the white was from a...

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