Lesson 4: Part 1

START by showing Resource M: Slide 1 which shows a blood thirsty depiction of a Sikh soldier from a German children's picture book of 1914 entitled "Our Enemies".

GIVE OUT copies of the same picture from Resource N1 and display the list of terms from Resource M: Slide 2 (these are the same list of terms used for analysing British propaganda representations of
Sikh and other Indian soldiers used in Lessons 2 and 3).

Within a set time ASK pairs to annotate a copy of the image, highlighting details which appear to support particular terms listed on Resource M: Slide 2 and lead a discussion taking suggestions from pupils.

GIVE OUT the images of British propaganda depicting Sikh and other Indian soldiers from Resource J.

ASK pairs to identify any British images of Sikh soldiers that might depict them in a similar way and if so, why they think this might be. (It was in the interests of British propaganda that German troops unfamiliar with Allied colonial forces should fear them).

DISPLAY Resource M: Slide 3 which shows a German propaganda image entitled "Destruction of an Indian Brigade west of Aubers".

ASK pairs to discuss any similarities and differences with Resource J and afterwards take suggestions from pairs about any they may have identified.  

DISPLAY Resource M: Slide 4 and explain that it shows a German postcard from early on in the war with an image of a German
soldier holding a captured Indian soldier. Explain that the phrase "Der Gefangene Inder" translates as "The Captured Indian".

GIVE OUT a copy of Resource N2 (the image from Resource M: Slide 4) and ask pairs to discuss which terms from the list of Resource M: Slide 2 might best describe the depiction of the Indian.

LASTLY display Resource M: Slide 5 and read the source to the class.

DISPLAY an enlarged copy of Resource J11 (the same photograph of the Sikh corporal used in Lessons 2 and 3).


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