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Essays Prompts

Amber Llewellyn

Our goal in the history department at my school is to have students writing 5 paragraph essays in 10th grade at least every other week; when they are Juniors and Seniors, they write them weekly. One of the challenges I faced in meeting this goal was coming up with writing prompts frequently. I have finally gotten smarter and started using the Unit Problem as at least one of the prompts. I have also uploaded my weekly notes to Chat Gpt and had it come up with a prompt. I admit the Chat Gpt prompts need to be reworked, but they at least give me a starting point. How do you come up with essay prompts? This is an area where I freely admit I need help because mine normally are not very good. 

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  • Wow, that sounds like a lot of grading. I usually get essay prompts from past AP exams and textbooks, and I also use compelling questions (aka unit problems) for my units to develop prompts. Of course, here at OER we have lots of prompts, but I also use questions from various curriculums such as the DBQ project. This way I have a broad array that I can choose from on the same topic. Using ChatGPT can also be a good starting point though, but I always need to do some editing. 

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  • Wow, that sounds like a lot of grading. I usually get essay prompts from past AP exams and textbooks, and I also use compelling questions (aka unit problems) for my units to develop prompts. Of course, here at OER we have lots of prompts, but I also use questions from various curriculums such as the DBQ project. This way I have a broad array that I can choose from on the same topic. Using ChatGPT can also be a good starting point though, but I always need to do some editing. 

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