3 marzo 2016
On Friday the 4th March 2016, the students of the classroom VA of the Technical Economics Tourism Intitute will take part in the in-depth historical class about the “Genocide of Armenians: a forgotten holocaust", held by Professor Stefano Bruno Galli, Professor of History of the Political Theories of the University of Political Sciences of Milan in order to raise the students' awareness about a topic which is part of their fifth grade curriculum but it is still not included in the official historical debate.
The class will be held at the school's premises.
CONTENTS:
The slaughters of the Christian people that occured in Turkey between 1915 and 1916 are recalled by the Armenians as “the great crime”. The murders started at night between the 23rd and the 24th of April 1915 in Costantinopolis. The extermination and the mass deportation of the Christian people from Armenia had been decided by the Ottoman Empire because of the defeats suffered when World War I started by the Russian army where some volunteer Armenian batallions were also present. Since the beginning of 1915 the young male Armenians had been gathered in the “working batallions” by the Turkish army and they were killed while the rest of the people had been moved to Syria by organizing the so called death marches. Hundreds of thousands people starved, they died because of the diseases, the hardships or they were slaughtered along the way.
AIMS:
- going deep into a topic belonging to the history curriculum of the fifth grade;
- stimulating the interest about the most important historical phenomena of the twentieth century.
OBJECTIVES:
- improving the students' ability to understand the main contents of a frontal lesson;
- improving the student's listening abilities within the classroom;
- improving th students' ability to use their critical thinking aimed at organzing a useful debate when the class is over
- testing the students' ability to face an external teacher;
- learning how to write an historical essay (type C).
