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What Is Your Position on Rules? Support your answer with examples/explanations

What Is Your Position on Rules? Support your answer with examples/explanations. The Goldilocks Test:. Too Few Rules. Too Many Rules. “Just Right”. Raise Your Hand When You Think You Know.

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What Is Your Position on Rules? Support your answer with examples/explanations

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  1. What Is Your Position on Rules?Support your answer with examples/explanations • The Goldilocks Test: Too Few Rules Too Many Rules “Just Right”

  2. Raise Your Hand When You Think You Know • Each player is dealt seven cards. The remaining cards are placed face down in the center of the table. • The player to the left goes first and play moves clockwise. • Each player adds to the discard pile by playing one card that matches the top card either by suit or by rank. • A player who cannot match the top card must draw cards until he can play one. • When the draw pile is empty, a player who cannot add to the discard pile passes his turn. • All eights are wild and can be played on any card during a player’s turn. When a player discards an eight, he chooses which suit is now in play. The next player must play either a card of that suit or another eight. • The first player to discard all of his cards wins.

  3. “Games would not be gameswithout rules” • Always true? • Sometimes true? • Not true at all • Support your answer with examples/explanations

  4. “There are too many rules atLegacy High School” • True? • Partly true? • Not true at all • (The Legacy High School student handbook has approximately 40 pages of rules. Too many or too few?)

  5. Are you “pro” rules or “con” rules? • This rule book has 244 pages: • http://www.nfl.com/rulebook/digestofrules • Are all of these rules necessary?

  6. Contract • If a professional athlete enters into a contract with the owners of a team, what does this obligate the athlete to do? • What does it obligate the owners of the team to do? • All people who enter into a game also enter into a contract with the other participants in that game. • In a contract there are agreed upon rules/understandings that are to be followed and honored.

  7. Social Contract • Are there unwritten rules and understandings for people in a community? • How does the concept of a “contract” play out in your lives (in the classroom, school, community, world) • If life is a “game,” what are some of the written and unwritten rules?

  8. Group Activity:What If There Were Not Any Laws • Laws are like the “rules” of the game for a particular community? • What if we didn’t have them?

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