START by arranging the desks and seating of the classroom into the rough shape of a world map (as in the starter activity in Lesson 2).

COPY AND ENLARGE as necessary the following list of location labels from Resource T:

• Vancouver, Canada (then part of the British Empire)
• San Francisco, USA
• Shanghai, China
• Tokyo, Japan
• Calcutta (Kolkatta), India (then part of the British Empire)
• Berlin, Germany
• Lahore, India (then part of the British Empire, now in Pakistan)
• Singapore (then part of the British Empire)
• Kabul, Afghanistan
• Thailand
• Manila, Philippines (then an American colony)
• Hoquian, Washington State, USA
• Mesopotamia (now Iraq)
• Wunsdorf, Germany

ASK individual pupils to stand and hold a label up by their approximate locations, reading out the labels in turn. Show European empires in 1914 (such as that in the link below) using modern atlases and displaying a world map:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25365442

ASK pairs to discuss what might link these different locations.

LEAD a discussion taking suggestions from different pairs.

THEN ask the same individuals holding up the location labels to read out the events associated with that location in turn from Resource U.

DISPLAY Resource V: Slide 1, which shows members of the Ghadar Party (including Sikhs) imprisoned by the British. Give pairs time to decide how Sikh soldiers like those on Resource V: Slide 2 might have described the prisoners in general (e.g. as traitors, cowards, fools) and take suggestions to write up.

THEN display the image of the Indian soldiers on Resource V: Slide 2. Give pairs time to decide how Sikh prisoners from the Ghadar Party might have described  their fellow Sikhs who served as soldiers in the British Indian Army in general (e.g. as traitors, fools, mercenaries) and take suggestions to write up.

LEAD a further discussion about whether all Ghadar prisoners would have viewed Indian soldiers in a hostile way and vice versa.

(Note: some pupils may recall the varying attitudes of Sikh soldiers towards the British from Lesson 5 and suggest that some Sikh soldiers may have been sympathetic towards the aims and sometimes the methods of the Ghadar Party. Some may have even seen these Ghadar prisoners as martyrs (some Sikh soldiers plotted a mutiny in Lahore in February 1915). Ghadar members were also keen to recruit Sikh soldiers to their cause and, while viewing them as misguided, were probably not always judgemental. After all, these were fellow Indians and Sikhs who had been deceived by the real villains, the British. Sikh soldiers certainly received Ghadar propaganda in the form of letters from time to time, despite the watchful gaze of the British military censor.)