EQ: What are the characteristics of

Place? 9/8 and 9/9

What title would you give this picture?

Explain why.

Place: A unique location

Place can be described in 5 ways

1. Place Name

Toponym: name give to a place on earth

Longest name of a place: Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

2. Absolute Location

Exact location such as an address or Latitude/longitude coordinates

EX: 50N, 75E 5015 S. Blackstone

3. Situation (relative location)

Location of a place relative to other locations

Kenwood is east of the lake

Physical characteristics of a place

Climate, water, topography, soil, vegetation, elevation

4. Site

Human Characteristics

Characteristics about the people

Language, culture, population, tourism, economy, religion, government etc.

Reading: Focus on meaning of words and visualization

Read and talk to the text-use your reading bookmark for sentence stem suggestions. You should not just draw symbols of write “OMG”. Need to explain your thoughts as you are reading

Think about the characteristics of “place” for Buenos Aires

Group Picture and gallery walk

Every group will use the descriptive vocabulary in the reading and draw a picture of how they visualize Buenos Aires. You do not have to include everything from the reading. Just what you pictured during and after reading.(10 min)

Gallery walk with comments of pictures

Exit slip: Retitle the picture-explain your title using information from the reading

BR: Write an example of each of the characteristics of place for Chicago

Toponym (place name):

Absolute location:

Situation (Relative Location):

Site (Physical Characteristics):

Human Characteristics:

Go back through the reading and figure out the meaning of words-use the word detective sheet with clues for how to figure out the meaning. Fill out the chart on the back of the reading

Find examples of each characteristic of place

Bell Ringer-none-start notes immediately

Word What I think it means

Strategy used to determine meaning (use word detective handout)

How does the word relate to the text? What does it mean in the context of the article?

MultinationalMonolith

Piquant

Elusive

Your choice

Exit Slip

Write a paragraph describing Buenos Aires using at least 3 characteristics of place.

Use at least one of the underlined words in your paragraph.