{"id":"hs-wwi-socratic-questions","audience":"high-school","category":"studying","technique":"constraints","title":"Get questioned on your history answer instead of corrected","free":false,"task":"You tried a US History review question on your own, and you want the AI to question you like a tutor so you find your mistake yourself, not hand you the right answer. Get exactly 3 numbered questions, under 75 words total, plain text, with no answers, explanations or corrections. The first question should lead you to the timeline problem in your answer, and every question must stay within your textbook excerpt.","materialLabel":"The review question, your answer and the textbook excerpt (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"REVIEW QUESTION 4 (Mr. Delgado, US History, Unit 6)\nWhy did the United States enter World War I? Use the textbook excerpt.\n\nMY ANSWER (first try)\nThe US entered World War I because a German submarine sank the Lusitania in 1915 and Americans were killed. Right after that, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war, and the US joined the Allies that year.\n\nTEXTBOOK EXCERPT (American Voices, ch. 19, p. 512)\nWhen war broke out in Europe in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would remain neutral. In May 1915, a German U-boat sank the British passenger ship Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Americans were outraged, but Wilson chose diplomacy, and Germany promised to limit submarine attacks. Wilson won reelection in 1916 with the slogan \"He kept us out of war.\"\n\nIn early 1917, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, attacking ships without warning. Then British agents intercepted the Zimmermann Telegram, a secret German message proposing that Mexico join Germany in a war against the United States. On April 2, 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war, and Congress voted for war on April 6.\n\nGroup chat: Kayla says the real reason was that the US wanted to get rich selling weapons, her cousin's teacher said so","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":75},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking it to check your answer","why":"The AI's default is to correct you and explain the right answer, so you read it instead of working it out.","fix":"Say: \"Don't give me the answer or tell me what's wrong. Only ask questions.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not saying how many questions","why":"Without a number, the AI asks a long list or mixes questions with mini-lectures.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 3 numbered questions, nothing else.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each question instead: \"each question under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Not pointing at the weak spot","why":"The AI may question you about anything in the chapter, not the timeline mistake that costs you points.","fix":"Add: \"Question 1 should make me check what happened between 1915 and when the US declared war.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Letting rumors in","why":"The AI may build on the group-chat claim or facts from outside your textbook, which your teacher won't accept.","fix":"Add: \"Base every question only on the textbook excerpt.\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says not to give the answer","patterns":["(don't|do not|no|never|without).{0,25}(answer|correct|tell me)","socratic","only ask","only questions"]},{"label":"Says how many questions","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,20}question"]},{"label":"Points at the timeline","patterns":["timeline","1915","1917","when.{0,30}(war|enter)"]},{"label":"Limits each question","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","short question","under \\d+"]},{"label":"Keeps it to the excerpt","patterns":["excerpt","textbook","only.{0,30}(source|material|text)"]}],"hint":"If you want to learn, the AI should ask and you should answer. Tell it not to correct you, how many questions, where to aim the first one, and to stay inside your textbook.","rubricLabels":["Contains only questions: no statements, explanations, answers or corrections before, between or after them (a question may mention a date or event from the excerpt)","The first question leads the student toward the gap between the Lusitania sinking (1915) and when the US actually entered the war (1917), for example by asking what Wilson did after the sinking or when Congress declared war","Every question is based on the textbook excerpt (such as Wilson's neutrality, the 1916 slogan, unrestricted submarine warfare or the Zimmermann Telegram), and none brings in the weapons-profit claim or other outside facts"]}