American History

The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass murder and ethnic cleansing of around one million ethnic Armenians from Anatolia and adjoining regions by the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress, during World War 1. 1915 - 1917..

I was discussing the holocaust and a student in my class, said, "Why aren't you discussing the.... Armenian Genocide? and I knew nothing about that. She was Armenian, and I was teaching in a mixed school of all ethnic types in Chicago.

The neighborhood from the school's population of students was verydiverse from all parts of the world. Maybe 25 languages were spoken in the halls by students from different countries
But....in most classes, only English was spoken, and going to that school was
part o the students ....experience at learning English. Most if not all wanted to become "citizens" of
the U.S.A. and were leaning English as part of ..."life", just like all immigrants did..My grandparents did
exactly the same..Their language was Yiddish, and they did not speak very good English.