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: Chargoggagoggmanchauggag oggchaubunagungamaugg

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 WordWhat 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? Multinational Monolith 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.