What's Different Today?
Teaching prompt for starting scenes: frame the moment as a departure from an established routine, implying backstory and stakes.
Known for
- Johnstone-adjacent technique: assumes there's a routine, and this moment is its interruption.
- Produces instant stakes — if something is different today, the characters must react to the change.
- Common Level 2 teaching device across schools.
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