Use Cases: This is great for students who struggle to understand content in a course. 

Prompt: Please rephrase the following article for someone with a [BLANK] reading level.

What to Have Students do: With any article, students are able to feed part of it to ChatGPT and ask them to rephrase them to any reading level [ex: 9th grade reading level] so it is easier to understand and digest. 

Example Prompt:

Please rephrase the following article into a 9th grade reading level:

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.

The feudal system of industry, in which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of division of labour in each single workshop.

Meantime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. Even manufacturer no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry; the place of the industrial middle class by industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.

Output:

Throughout history, societies have been shaped by conflicts between different groups of people. Whether they were rich or poor, powerful or powerless, these groups were always in opposition to one another. They fought openly or secretly, and their battles ended either in a complete change of society or the downfall of the groups involved.

In the past, societies were organized into different classes with varying degrees of social status. For example, in ancient Rome, there were patricians, knights, plebeians, and slaves. During the Middle Ages, there were feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, and serfs. Each of these classes had its own subgroups as well.

Even though modern society emerged after the decline of feudalism, it didn't get rid of class differences. Instead, it created new classes and forms of oppression, leading to new types of struggles. In our current era, which is dominated by the bourgeoisie, or the business-owning class, and the proletariat, or the working class, these conflicts have become simpler and more pronounced.

The middle class, known as the bourgeoisie, developed from the urban citizens of the Middle Ages. The exploration of new lands like America and the opening of new trade routes brought prosperity to this rising class. Trade with far-off places and the growth of industries changed society drastically, making it more revolutionary and dynamic.

The old system of closed guilds controlling production couldn't keep up with the demands of expanding markets. The manufacturing process replaced this old way, as workshops took over from guilds. As markets continued to grow and demands increased, even manufacturing wasn't enough. This led to the revolutionizing influence of steam power and machinery, giving rise to modern industrialization and the emergence of wealthy industrial leaders.