It's Hip to Be a Square

Today's demo at BWP was on using poetry in content areas. We used Margaret Wise Brown's book The Important Book and followed her structure to write a poem about a shape. (For those of you familiar with Max Thompson's Learning Focused Schools, you will notice this is used as a summarizing strategy in his framework.)

An important thing about a square is that it has four equal sides, and each angle is a right angle.

It is like an air vent, a PowerPoint slide, a piece of bread, the cover of a children's book, and a mouse pad.

It is a CD case or an LP album cover.

It's the Hint cell phone my daughter wants, a priority mail box, one side of a cube, a piece of a quilt, tiles on the floor, and a thumbnail profile picture on Twitter.com.

But the most important thing about a square is that it has four equal sides ad four 90 degree, right angles.