Dr. Seuss’s “The Zax” Conflict Resolution – Win-Win Scenarios – Part two

GRADE LEVEL: PREK-2 X 3-5 6-8 9-12 ______

NYC ARTS BLUEPRINT STRAND or BENCHMARK; STATE STANDARD

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Children use language, voice, gesture, movement, and observations to express their experiences and communicate ideas.

LITERACY OR SUBJECT AREA STANDARD:

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Standard 4 - Children will listen attentively to others and build on others ideas in conversations with peers.

ARTISTIC AIM:

Children will sustain, concentrate, focus, and commit in group activities and shared performance of the Dr. Seuss poem, “The Zax” Children will use a variety of vocal skills, including volume, pitch, tempo, and movement of arms, legs, body to show ways The Zax can solve their problem and pass each other.

LITERACY/ MATH/ OR SUBJECT AREA AIM:

Conflict resolution. -How to create a win-win situation. In teams, or partners, the children will pretend to be the stubborn Zax and show how they will solve their problem with a win-win scenario.

Problem solving and reasoning – Predict results, analyze data, and find out why some results are more likely, less likely, or equally likely.

Motivation:

Who remembers the name of the poem we read yesterday? Take answers. What did each Zax want? Do you think you can show ways the Zax can pass each other? What are some ways? Today we will show each other different ways the Zax can solve their problem.

MATERIALS:

“The Sneetches and Other Stories”.Random House, 1961. ISBN: 978-0394800899

Material includes “The Zax”

Procedure:

Vocal warm up – Vowel sounds. Sitting or standing.

1)Review the dramatic poem “The Zax.”

2)Divide the class into teams. Team north going Zax and team south going Zax

3)Children will repeat verses from the poem.

4)Before I read the end, I will like to hear your ideas on how to the Zax can solve their problem.

5)Tell the children they will perform their ideas for the class.

6)Have the class work in partners. Give them five to ten minutes to discuss what they want to do.

7)Have the partners come up and show how the Zax could solve their problem. They should stand face-to-face, talk as The Zax and say how youwill resolve your conflict, and then perform your resolution. Ideas could include: going around each other, leapfrogging, sidling by each other, going east instead of west, going back the way the came.

8)After the performance, Say, “Let’s find out how the Zax solved their problem Read the end of the poem.

9)Say, “Did either of them win? What could they have done instead? Take answers and discuss the ways the children performed their solutions. What are some ways we can play together or work together? Take answers. Applaud the class and encourage applause.

CLOSE:

Ask the children to go to their seats or sit on the rug. Ask them to take a deep breath and let it out. Three times. Ask them to take a deep breath and let it out with a sigh. Ask them to say Mmmm…. Ah with a whisper. Applaud the class and encourage applause for their classmates.

Assessment:

“Did either of them win? What could they have done instead? Take answers and discuss the ways the children performed their solutions. What are other ways to play together or work together?

RESOURCES; LINKS

"The Zax" is also available as video online:

cynthia hargravesfebruary 22, 2013

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