The answer is magazines because I'm pretty sure that it means something that is printed.
The words in the brackets are telling the actors what to physically do, meaning it would be a stage direction.
It isn't dialogue because that is a conversation between two people.
It isn't dialect because that is how a person speaks. There is no speaking in the brackets.
It isn't narration because it isn't spoken allowed for the audience.
It isn't a description because that is too broad a term more often used for emotions.
The best paraphrase for the first paragraph is:
"After school, Jade tells her cousin Karla to try out for the step team"
This is mainly what the first paragraph is concerned with.
Proctor said those words for he was trying to protect his wife
