{"id":"hs-extension-request-email","audience":"high-school","category":"writing-emails","technique":"tone","title":"Ask a teacher for an extension the right way","task":"You're Maya Ortiz, a junior in Mr. Delgado's Period 3 Chemistry class. Debate regionals overlap your lab report deadline, so you need to email him for an extension. He hates long emails: put the request, for the latest new due date his policy allows, in the first sentence after the greeting, keep it to at most 3 sentences, plain text, no subject line (you'll type that yourself), and sign with your name and class period. Write a prompt that gets that email.","free":false,"materialLabel":"Your notes and the class policy (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"My notes for the email (Maya Ortiz, Chem, Period 3)\n\n- Lab report: Reaction Rates lab, due Thursday Oct 16\n- Debate regionals are Wed Oct 15 to Fri Oct 17. Bus leaves 6am Wed, back late Fri. It's a school-approved trip, and Ms. Kaur (debate coach) already emailed all our teachers the team list on Monday.\n- I've finished the data table and graphs. Still need the discussion and conclusion.\n- idea: ask for a whole week? like till next Friday Oct 24?? that would be so nice lol\n- Jess said just tell him your laptop died, he never checks. (no.)\n\nFrom the Chem syllabus (Mr. Delgado):\n\"Late work policy: For a school-approved absence, you may request an extension of up to 2 school days past the original due date. Email your request at least 24 hours before the original due date and include the new date you are asking for.\"\n\nMr. Delgado on day 1: \"Get to the point in emails. I get 150 a day.\"\n\nSchool calendar: No school Monday Oct 20 (teacher workday).","rules":[{"type":"maxSentences","max":3},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Just saying \"write an email\"","why":"The AI writes a long, polite email full of warm-up lines, which is the opposite of what Mr. Delgado asked for.","fix":"Add: \"At most 3 sentences. Put the request in the first sentence after 'Hi Mr. Delgado,'.\"","checks":["maxSentences","r0"]},{"title":"Not checking the policy's date","why":"The AI copies the wish in your notes (a full week), or counts Monday even though there's no school that day.","fix":"Say the date: \"Ask for Tuesday, Oct 21, the latest the policy allows since Monday has no school.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Letting it pad the email","why":"AI emails default to 'I hope you're well', an apology and a long thank-you, which buries the request.","fix":"Add: \"Exactly 3 sentences: the request, the reason, a short thank-you.\"","checks":["maxSentences"]},{"title":"Leaving a subject line and placeholders","why":"AI adds a 'Subject:' line and signs off with [Your Name], which you'd have to clean up before sending.","fix":"Add: \"No subject line. Sign it Maya Ortiz, Period 3.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Getting formatting in an email","why":"AI often bolds the subject or key dates, which shows up as asterisks when pasted.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Puts the request first","patterns":["first sentence","lead with","start with","open with","right away"]},{"label":"Names the new date","patterns":["oct(ober)?\\s*21","tuesday","policy","2 school days"]},{"label":"Limits the sentences","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,15}sentences?","sentences?.{0,15}\\b(3|three)\\b"]},{"label":"Skips the subject line","patterns":["no subject","without (a )?subject","skip.{0,15}subject"]},{"label":"Gives the sign-off","patterns":["maya","period 3","sign"]}],"hint":"The AI doesn't know Mr. Delgado wants short emails or what his policy allows. Tell it what goes first, the exact date to ask for, how many sentences, and what to leave out.","rubricLabels":["The first sentence after the greeting asks for the extension (a pleasantry or warm-up sentence before the request fails this)","Asks for the new due date of Tuesday, Oct 21 (the latest the policy allows: 2 school days past Thursday Oct 16, since Monday Oct 20 has no school)","Has no subject line and is signed with Maya's name and Period 3 (no placeholders like [Your Name])"]}