Place: A unique Location
Mar 22, 2016
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