Thumbprint

What is the theme in, Thumbprint?

• To embrace one's individuality

• The universe creates your thumbprint

• Imagery painted the picture of different thumbprints

• Everyone's thumbprints are different, therefore symbolizing everyone is the same.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What literary devices did we focus on in the poem?

• Connotation, dictation, denotation

• Hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification

• Metaphor, imagery, repetition.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What metaphor is communates the theme?

• In the heel of my thumb

  are whorls, whirls, wheels

• I am myself,

  of all my atom parts I am the sum

• No other, however grand or base,

  can ever contain the same

• My universe key,

  my singularity

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What alliteration was extremely significant?

• whorls, whirls, wheels

• whirl y, whorled, went

• wander, whaler, walking

• wanky, wicky, waves

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Why is the word mark important?

• Symbolizes the physical mark of ones thumbprint, as well as the impact they have on the world

• Imprint my mark upon the world

• You make your own interior weather, therefore symbolizing rain.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What word(s) was repeated frequently

• Whorls/Whirls/Wheels

• Thumbprint

• My/I/Myself

• Unique

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What writing technique is used when Eve Merriam says "in the heel of my thumb are whorls, whirls, wheels"

• Imagery

• alliteration

• consonance

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9