Director Reports: Day 1

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI PROGRAM 2019-Day 1: A promising start of an ambitious Summer Camp for Hindi learning-Students learned to greet each other appropriately as they listened, discussed, read and wrote various parts of the story learned in the class. They were engaged in varieties of topic related Interpersonal activities throughout the day. The camp is being held in collaboration with Franklin Township Board of Education at Franklin High School, Somerset, NJ

Director Reports: Day 2

SANGAM-STARTALK HINDI PROGRAM 2019, Franklin, NJ; Day 2: Our students grades 6 and up took the AAPPL HINDI TEST. They demonstrated a high level of integrity and discipline while taking the test.

Students also took part in various Interpretive and Interpersonal activities, such as, matching captions with pictures, listening and retelling the story with and without changing its ending

Director Reports: Day 3

Storytelling by photos: Sangam-Franklin STARTALK Hindi Program 2019; Day 3: Students engaged in varieties of Interpersonal and Presentational activities as they learned the story of Kansari-a princess who left her palace to work as a farmer so that she could feed the hungry-a great tribute to people’s occupation taken from Indian tradition of respecting the common people. Students not only identified with characters but also role played to depict the story in their own language. A well thought of story that motivated kids to talk about themselves and others; identify and describe a story in sequence.

Director Reports: Day 4

Sangam-Franklin STARTALK Hindi Program 2019; Day 4:Interpersonal activities, interviewing a celebrity Mountaineer,Purna. I can identify, analyze, and discussed actions of the main character of a story learned in my class.

Director Reports: Day 5

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI LANGUAGE AND CULTURE PROGRAM 2019: JDAY 5. The focus of the first week of our program was introduction of self, Hobbies, favorite food and identifying characters of stories learned in the class. We introduced four inspirational stories from Indian traditions that helped learners listen to and talk about people. By end of the week students were discussing, presenting and role playing characters they learned about in their classes. They drew pictures, wrote short captions and described the character traits of major characters in their own words. In the second week of SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK Program we will introduce a new set of inspirational stories of Modern day India that would help students increase their Hindi skills, produce more language, and develop their cultural understanding of India.

Director Reports: Day 6

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI 2019; Day 6: I can state my likes and dislikes of a village and a city; I can say why I want to live in a village or a city; I can categorise things one can see in a village; I can describe why Dashrath Manjhi wanted to cut the mountain to construct a road; I can discuss why we should do good for others: Learners engaged in activities to retell the story of ‘Mountain Man’ and discuss challenges villagers in India face!

Director Reports: Day 7

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI PROGRAM 2019; Day 7, July 30: Students engaged in retelling and recreating the story of Forest Man-Jadav Payeng, who not only saved his village from the bad effects of global warming but also created green habitat for many endangered wild animals.

Director Reports: Day 8

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK 2019 PROGRAM site visitors with program instructors: Day 8-Noted Arabic expert Dany Douieri (kneeling) and team leader Farid Saydee (standing left) photographed with Sandhya Bhagat, Hema Ojha, myself with Lead Instructor Nilakshi Phukan , Akila Shekar, Anju, Sangeeta Jain and Sanjyot ji. We presented our program souvenir, Sangam T shirt to our visitors

Director Reports: Day 9

Sangam-Franklin STARTALK HINDI PROGRAM 2019; Day 9: Presenting to peers/classmates. Students presented their work on Pollution in front of others to critique.

Recess time at SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI PROGRAM 2019: Students enjoying recess time-they have 15 minutes to spend as they like to in the school courtyard

Director Reports: Day 10

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI PROGRAM 2019; Day 10: I can discuss the actions of the main character of the story, in a series of simple sentences, learned in my class. Intermediate students discussing the beach cleaning campaign by Afroz Shah, the social worker who cleaned Versova beach of Munbai from 2015 to 2018.

Director Reports: Day 11

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI 2019; Saturday, August 3, 2019; Day 11-Field Trip: I can converse with a native speaker in Hindi in culturally appropriate manner.

Learners spend a day outside of Franklin High School, the program venue to learn about the real world. We took them in a guided trip to Colonial Park where a park authority Surina Rashid briefed them on the highlights of the park including its Rose Garden and the Fragrance/Perennial garden. After spending 2 hours in the natural surroundings we headed to a community center, Bharat Sevashram, where two guest speakers Mamta Tripathi and Sanjana Tatke told their stories. The speakers narrated their relationship with Hindi, explaining in detail the benefits of Hindi learning for students. STARTALK students asked varieties of questions about their experiences of Hindi learning.

Director Reports: Day 12

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI 2019; Day 12:

I can describe accomplishments of my role model. Students learned about the life and accomplishments of Hima Das, discussed and presented in the class.

Director Reports: Day 13

SANGAM-FRANKLIN STARTALK HINDI 2019; Day 13: Role model role playing/ Week 3, Unit 3 of our program focused on accomplishments of role models. Today students learned about cricketer MS Dhoni. They role played Dhoni and interviewed the character in simple sentences.