{"id":"study-federalist-ten-plain-summary","audience":"high-school","category":"summarizing","technique":"audience","track":"study","title":"Summarize a founding document reading for 9th graders","free":false,"task":"You're a junior helping 9th graders in your school's peer tutoring program with a reading on Federalist No. 10. Get exactly 3 numbered sentences in plain words a 9th grader can follow, under 75 words total, plain text: what a faction is, why Madison thought they were dangerous, and his solution. Use only the textbook passage, and don't use the words 'factious', 'republic' or 'majoritarian' at all.","materialLabel":"The textbook passage (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"PEER TUTORING - 9th grade Civics - Reading: Federalist No. 10\n(Textbook: Foundations of Government, ch. 3, p. 58)\n\nIn 1787, James Madison wrote Federalist No. 10 to convince New Yorkers to support the new Constitution. Madison worried about factions: groups of citizens united by a shared interest or passion that works against the rights of others or the good of the whole community.\n\nMadison argued that factions are dangerous because a large, passionate group could take over the government and pass laws that hurt others. He believed the causes of faction could not be removed without destroying liberty, since people will always have different opinions and different amounts of property.\n\nHis solution was to control the effects of faction. In a large republic, where people elect representatives, there would be so many different groups that no single faction could easily become a majority and take control.\n\nTUTOR NOTES (from Mr. Delacroix, program advisor):\n- The 9th graders found the original text impossible. Keep it simple.\n- Last week a tutor used the word \"majoritarian\" and lost everyone.\n- Stick to the textbook passage; don't bring in Federalist 51 or the Anti-Federalists yet.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":75},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not saying who reads it","why":"The AI summarizes at a college level, with the same vocabulary that lost the 9th graders.","fix":"Say: \"For 9th graders, in plain words.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not saying how many sentences","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more sentences than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 3 numbered sentences.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Not giving the three parts","why":"The AI may cover the background and skip the solution, which is the main point.","fix":"Name them: \"what a faction is, why it's dangerous, his solution.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Letting in outside material","why":"The AI knows a lot about Madison and may add Federalist 51.","fix":"Add: \"Use only the textbook passage.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"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 sentence: \"each under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it will be read","why":"AI formats for a screen, with bold and headings that show up as stray symbols on the tutoring handout.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says who it's for","patterns":["9th","ninth","freshm","14.year"]},{"label":"Says how many sentences","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,25}sentence"]},{"label":"Names the three parts","patterns":["faction","danger","solution"]},{"label":"Avoids hard words","patterns":["plain words","simple","(don't|no|avoid).{0,20}(jargon|majoritarian|republic|factious)"]},{"label":"Says to use only the material","patterns":["only.{0,30}(notes|material|source|excerpt|text|reading|passage|draft|facts|article|handout|sheet|guide|chapter|data|list)","no outside","don't add","do not add","don't invent","passage"]}],"hint":"The AI doesn't know your readers are 9th graders who found the original impossible. Say who reads it, the three parts to cover, the words to avoid, and to stick to the passage.","rubricLabels":["Sentence 1 explains a faction (a group with a shared interest that works against others' rights or the common good), sentence 2 why it is dangerous (it could take over and pass laws that hurt others), sentence 3 the solution (a large country with elected representatives and many groups, so no one faction takes over)","Uses plain words a 9th grader can follow, and never uses the words 'factious', 'republic' or 'majoritarian' (even with an explanation)","Uses only the textbook passage, with nothing about Federalist 51, the Anti-Federalists or other outside material"]}