# One prop, many stories

**Foundation / Queensland Prep · Drama · Term 1 Weeks 9–10 · Days 41–50 · ten 25-minute sessions · 0.1.0-draft · 30 September 2026**

What could one ordinary card, cloth or empty tabletop box become in a story? A child chooses an imagined object, role and place, then plays one tiny moment. Change a meaning, keep a favourite clue, invent a surprise, or stop at one action. Quiet gestures, optional voice, child-directed adult enactment, drawing and a no-contact plan are welcome. **The story belongs to the child.** There is no required costume, intricate propmaking, polished show, audience or worksheet performance.

This follows [Weeks 1–8](../weeks-07-08/README.md): earlier prop presence/reveal and linked moments now become **imaginative prop substitution and tiny improvisation**. [Integrated W9](../../../term-1/week-09-show-what-we-found.md) separates representations from real objects/data; here the child chooses a fictional meaning for an ordinary prop, not a data answer. [W10](../../../term-1/week-10-what-changed.md) revisits actual work; here a change may be intended meaning/action, not measured learning growth or a public portfolio.

## Start with one short invitation

1. [Prepare one familiar approved prop or complete no-contact route](MATERIALS.md). Everything stays tabletop, including an ordinary empty box if chosen; no entering containers or using them as seats, placing props on/over heads, bodies or faces, tying, climbing, food, real tools or new costumes.
2. [Ten daily scripts](LESSONS.md) and [30 same-goal routes / ten optional home bridges](LEARNER-CARDS.md). Adult reads one short prompt; actual play comes first.
3. [20 worked choice domains](PRACTICE-SWAPS.md), [ten optional playful extensions](EXAMPLE-BANK.md), [plain read-aloud invitations](PROMPTS.md). Do not rehearse held O/P.
4. [Nine original illustrated A4 SVG/PDF pairs and exact alternatives](print/TEXT-ALTERNATIVES.md). Large scene pictures first; no need print all pages. PDFs searchable, not tagged; linear Markdown is the reading copy.
5. Optional [offline scene planner](digital/README.md), complete with paper/noJS route. Screen proposals are not enacted drama.
6. Held [fresh O/P](STUDENT-CHECKS.md), [separate examples/key](teacher/KEY-AND-NEXT.md). Open creative responses, first capture before models, components may continue later without timed finish.

An actual child-devised drawing/director-created artifact preserves authorship; it is not automatically child enactment. Actual child role gesture, actual adult enactment, saved drawing/script, words-only plan and actual sharing are recorded separately. Intention is not a guaranteed audience reading. Private work/choice to pass is valid; actual performance evidence needs an agreed accessible enactment when available.

[Supplied original dramatic text/purpose](SUPPLIED-WORK.md) · [crosswalk](CURRICULUM-CROSSWALK.md) · [rights/receipts](SOURCE-AND-RIGHTS.md) · [actual source/audience gate](AUTHENTIC-SOURCE-SLOT.md) · [pins](source-snapshot.json) · [desk critique](RUN-THROUGH.md) · [manifest](manifest.json). Narrow actual saved-text encounter plus child's response/known author purpose can support partial conditional FE01. It is not a performed human/community source or all FE01 breadth.

Original educational text/graphics © 2026 NeuroForgeIO Pty Ltd, SubjectNest, CC BY 4.0; code Apache 2.0. Curriculum/font/community-held rights separate. No classroom, human access, cultural authority or learning-gain trial claimed.

## Portable reproduction for adult review

Use Python 3 with pypdf (author version 5.1.0), DejaVu Sans, librsvg `rsvg-convert`, Poppler `pdftotext` and Node. Browser audit also needs a locally installed Playwright runtime/Chromium, configured using that runtime's setup directions. From this pack: `python3 print/generate_print.py` deliberately rebuilds pairs; `python3 verify_pack.py` is read-only and uses temporary rebuilds/negative copies; `--write-manifest` explicitly refreshes hashes after authoring. `node digital/qa_browser.cjs` is read-only; `--capture` explicitly writes previews. No private workstation paths or shared-map edits required.