you have gave the class 5-10 minutes to complete the "do now" writhing activity. After the elapse time you called upon serveral students to share their responses. Serveral did. Following this, you then ralated the "do now" to one of the central themes of the novel, the catch in the Rye: holden's search for direction and meaning in his life. You can ask students to take out tha essys on the novel they had been working on.