{"id":"res-hs-great-migration-primary-sources","audience":"high-school","category":"research","technique":"constraints","title":"Pick primary sources for a Great Migration history essay","free":false,"task":"Your U.S. History essay on the Great Migration requires 2 primary sources, meaning created by people who lived through it, between 1916 and 1940. From your library search, you want exactly 2 numbered picks, each with its title, year and a reason under 12 words. Use only the details in your list, plain text, nothing else.","materialLabel":"Your library search results (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"LIBRARY SEARCH: \"Great Migration\" (saved results)\n\n1. \"Letters from Southern Migrants to the Chicago Defender\" - letters written 1916-1918 by people planning to move north. Digital archive.\n2. \"The Great Migration: A Short History\" - textbook chapter written in 2015.\n3. Oral history interview with Ruth Hale, recorded 2004, about her family's move in 1923.\n4. Photograph: \"Family arriving at Chicago's Illinois Central Station,\" taken 1918 by a newspaper photographer.\n5. Documentary film \"Northbound\" - made in 2019, uses historians and archive footage.\n6. Migration Series painting panel by a working artist, created 1940-41, based on the artist's own family stories.\n7. Blog post \"10 Facts About the Great Migration\" - 2022, no author listed.\n\nTeacher's note on the assignment sheet: \"Primary = made at the time by people who were there.\"","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":2},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not defining primary","why":"The AI may count an oral history or a documentary as primary because they include firsthand voices.","fix":"Say: \"Primary means created between 1916 and 1940 by people who lived it.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Missing the date edge","why":"The painting started in 1940 but was finished in 1941, so it doesn't fit cleanly.","fix":"Add: \"Pick only sources fully inside 1916-1940.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Getting essay help","why":"The AI starts outlining your essay, which isn't what you asked.","fix":"Say: \"Output only the 2 picks.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Not saying how many","why":"The AI decides the length itself and usually returns more picks than you can use.","fix":"Be exact: \"exactly 2 numbered picks.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Getting markdown back","why":"AI defaults to bold labels and headings, which show up as stray symbols in your source log.","fix":"Ask for \"plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Defines primary","patterns":["primary","at the time","lived (through|it)","firsthand"]},{"label":"Gives the date range","patterns":["1916","1940"]},{"label":"Says exactly how many","patterns":["\\b(2|two)\\b.{0,25}(pick|source)","exactly \\d+"]},{"label":"Limits each reason","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","one (short )?(sentence|line|reason)"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"'Primary source' has a specific meaning in history class. Give the AI your teacher's definition and date range so it can't stretch it.","rubricLabels":["The 2 picks are items 1 (Chicago Defender letters, 1916-1918) and 4 (1918 photograph), the only sources clearly created between 1916 and 1940 by people living through it","Does not pick the textbook, the 2004 oral history, the documentary, the blog, or the 1940-41 painting, and each reason uses only details from the list","Outputs only the 2 numbered picks: no intro, no list of rejected sources, no essay outline"]}