Forgotten Fire

Coleen_Nieto

Forgotten Fire | Adam Bagdasarian

Recommended by a good friend who ironically, is not a reader. Very sad...

Coleen_Nieto Just finished Forgotten Fire. Words are hard. 7y

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Hollie

Forgotten Fire | Adam Bagdasarian

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I finally got to finish this while my students took their final exam today. It is incredible. The story of Vahan Kenderian begins when he is 12, living quite comfortably with a loving family and not a care in world. This is set during the Armenian genocide and is about loss, and resilience, and hardships, told through the eyes of a young boy whose childhood abruptly ends one morning. It is based on a true story and I'd highly recommend it!

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Hollie

Forgotten Fire | Adam Bagdasarian

So far, this book is so powerful! I'm sneaking in 10 minutes of reading before my class. This week, I'm having to sneak in reading wherever I can!

JacintaMCarter If you walk past my office and the door is closed, I'm in there. I just close the door so no one catches me reading. 8y

Hollie @JacintaMCarter good to know! I do that too, sometimes! 8y

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Hollie

Forgotten Fire | Adam Bagdasarian

I'm just #cominghome from judging the Kansas History Day state competition. I started this book right before I left, which began with this introduction. I didn't get much further, but I'm thinking a bubble bath and this book will suit me fine after such a long day/long drive! #lyricalapril

Cinfhen

Cinfhen I'm curious to hear more about Kansas History Day competition! And 🛀 +📚=👍🏻💗 8y

Hollie @Cinfhen it was my first time as a judge..kids research a historical topic and then in my category, they performed. I had people acting out a female soviet sniper, a female French spy, a suffragette, and the winner did jazz musicians during the Cold War! 8y

Cinfhen That's fascinating! Sounds like a fun day for students & judges 💕 8y

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MyNamesParadise Yep Hitler got his ideas from the Armenian Genocide and how the US use to sterilize the mentally ill and our practice of eugenics. Fun stuff 😞. 8y

Hollie @MyNamesParadise yes, so sad 😥 8y

MyNamesParadise @Hollie I saw The Promise, the movie that came out a couple weeks ago about the Armenian Genocide & it was really good!! I did a winter term study abroad trip in college dedicated to the Holocaust & during all of that time and research I still didn't know about Armenia!!!! My aunt who lives in NYC told me about it & I was like ???? It's like African American women helping at NASA- how did most people not know these things?!? 8y

Hollie @MyNamesParadise I really want to see that movie, I've heard good things. I'm using this book and 2 others to write an article on using historical fiction to teach genocide, so hopefully I can educate some folks! 8y

MyNamesParadise @Hollie the biggest book about the Armenian Genocide is Operation Nemesis which came out in 2015- the 100 year anniversary. Oh wow that sounds fascinating! 8y

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KennethTolesJr

Forgotten Fire | Adam Bagdasarian

Armenian Genocide. Turkey exterminated 1.5 MILLION Armenians from 1915-1923, and the Turkish government mostly refuses to even acknowledge it! Outrageous!

Hitler based his idea of The Holocaust on this very event.

"Who does now remember the Armenians?" -Hitler
He said this while defending his argument to exterminate an entire people.

We're teaching this in our Freshman English class this month.

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