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Heritage Action Group- Workshop Day 2

12/11/2013

 
On the second day of the workshop, we continued with the theme of culture, heritage, books, and the local neighborhood of Chitpur Road.  Many of the Class VII students returned, with a few new faces, whose names our shown on the name tags below:
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We began by discussing the role of books in shaping culture and the history of publishing in the Chitpur Area.  We then led a discussion with the students about different kinds of books - including encyclopedias, guidebooks, travelogues, history books, and non-fiction versus fiction writing - and talked about the significance of each of these kinds of books. 
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Next, we discussed the idea of bookmaking. Each student was handed a worksheet to begin brainstorming ideas for the kind of information that they would choose to include in a guidebook about the Oriental Seminary (their school), as well as the surrounding neighborhood. 
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Finally, each student chose a different aspect of life on Chitpur Road on which they would become an expert. This included different topics such as food, schools, Rabindranath Tagore, and religion. The topics and their assignments were written on the board, as follows: 
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Finally, we gave them a short: homework assignment: each student was  to ask a community or family member about their individual topic, to provide source material for the preparation of the Chitpur Road / Oriental Seminary guidebook. 
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Above: an image of the playing field, where many students play cricket, at the Oriental Seminary. 

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