One day, Miss Chavez decided to let the students walk into class one morning and discover a sign:

At first, everyone thinks this sounds AMAZING.

One student moves everyone's desks.

Someone shouts, "Recess should last three hours." 

Another student takes every blue marker and begins writing on the wall...why?

 "There's no rule saying I can't."

Someone announces: "I'M THE CLASS PRESIDENT, SO I MAKE ALL THE RULES!"

And within minutes...CHAOS.

That's when Mia realizes: "Maybe we should have rules, but maybe rules that meet everyone in the middle and keep everyone in check"

NO CLASS RULES TODAY!!!

I SHOULD BE IN CHARGED!!

This is not Good!!

“STOP!” Mia called.

The room became quiet.

“We need rules!” Mia said. “But nobody should get to control everything.”

Miss Chavez smiled at Mia.

“Great job, Mia,” she said.

“For our lesson today, we are going to make rules that help keep our classroom organized, but also fair for everyone.”

Miss Chavez held up a piece of paper.

“This,” Miss Chavez said, “will be known as our Classroom Constitution, kind of like the United States Constitution we have today. It will help make sure our rules are fair and that no one person gets to control everything. And to make sure everything stays balanced, we’ll also have three branches, just like our government does!”

STOPPPP!! THIS IS CRAZY; WE NEED RULES!

Lets creat a constitution to fix this problem!

Hmmm...Maybe you're right, Mia.

So is it like a rule book? 

So we get to make our own rule?

yes yes and yes!!