Well, from my experience, it would be prewriting. Prewriting is where you come up and brainstorm ideas. Its when you scribble ideas and write out a plan on the direction that you want your paper to head to, where you would write a list or draw a picture on key points you want to hit on the paper.
What could be happening in this story is a character was off to school and left their phone at home on the kitchen table
Germany had to fight to many upfront which lead to it's defeat