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What rule would that be?<\/li>\n<li>Each student then writes down this one rule on the index card.<\/li>\n<li>Once students have formulated their rules, collect the index cards and then, after mixing them up, pass them back. Each student should now have a rule that he or she didn\u2019t write.<\/li>\n<li>In groups of two, students then work to come to an agreement about which of their two rules they would choose to be bound by. Depending upon how large the class, you can repeat this process with groups of four and have those groups come to an agreement on one rule out of the two each pair group had decided upon earlier.<\/li>\n<li>Once the full list of rules has been winnowed down, write the remaining rules on the board. The students then discuss and eventually vote on the five rules that they will choose to be bound by for the remainder of the class. (Remind the students that they will always have the option of reconsidering the rules they choose; if good reasons can be given for changing them and the class can agree that changes are warranted, the rules can be changed.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":187,"template":"","dqcategories":[373,378],"class_list":["post-1933","questionslibrary","type-questionslibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dqcategories-ethics","dqcategories-social-and-political-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stuart Little - Chapter 12, \u201cThe Schoolroom\u201d - PLATO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stuart Little - Chapter 12, \u201cThe Schoolroom\u201d - PLATO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What are the important things? 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