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A Great Gatsby unit planned by an agent
Ethan Mollick asked for a high school plan with reading broken into sections and tasks tied to the curriculum.
- Profession
- Teacher
- Tools
- Claude
- Source
- aiiq.substack.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- no date
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
With a single instruction to the computer use feature, the Wharton professor asked for a unit plan for The Great Gatsby for high school, divided into reading sections and with tasks aligned to US curriculum standards, all in a spreadsheet.
How it went
Claude worked on its own and delivered the spreadsheet, with a few stumbles along the way.
Good to know
Outside the US, ask for alignment with your local curriculum standards.
The prompt
Build a [number]-lesson plan for [grade] on the book [title]: reading breakdown, objectives tied to [curriculum standards], one activity per lesson and a final assessment, in a table.
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Summary in our own words. Results as stated in the original account; we have not tested or audited them. Read the source ↗ Case found via agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn); text and prompt rewritten by us. Found a mistake?
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