Place: A unique Location

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

Read and talk to the text

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

Retitle the picture-explain your title using information from the reading and gallery walk

BR: Copy this page and the chart on next slide in your notebook…leave room to write!

Write the Place name. For each of the other characteristics of place write a least three examples (you can list them)

Toponym (place name): Situation (Relative Location): Site (Physical Characteristics): Human Characteristics:

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?

MultinationalMonolithPiquantElusiveYour choice

Go back through the reading and figure out the meaning of words and examples of vocabulary used for place