place: a unique location
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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
EQ 6: What are the characteristics of Place? 9/17 and
9/18*
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: Read word detective
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
Class discussion
Bell Ringer-none-start notes immediately
Word What I think it means
Strategy used to determine meaning (use word detective handout)
Actual meaning of the word
MultinationalMonolithPiquantElusiveYour choice
Find examples of place for Buenos Aires (#3)
Exit Slip
You are the Public Relations rep for the tourism board in Buenos Aires. Write an email message in response to possible visitors who are thinking about taking a trip to Buenos Aires. Because this means $$$ for the city, you want to convince them to visit.