This is one of a series of resources, produced using documents from our collections, by teachers taking our MA module.
This lesson sequence for key stage 5 students was written by Helen Hedges. Helen teaches in an 11-18 selective grammar school.
Overall enquiry question
How can we explain why so many Indian people decided to fight against the British in 1857?
- understand that evidence strengthens an argument
- be able to identify claims and supporting evidence, and analyse the relationship between claim and evidence
- use provenance to understand the context in which a document was written, and use this to draw secure inferences
- be able to make inferences about the actions, beliefs and aims of the Indian ‘mutineers’ based on a piece of primary evidence
- understand that the level of certainty about a claim can change depending on the type of claim being made and the evidence available
- use provenance to help build certainty about claims and understand how use of multiple sources can be used to increase and decrease certainty of claims
- construct an argument about the motives of the Indian ‘mutineers’ based on claims from various sources of evidence
- test a controversial statement based on evidence and claims from multiple sources
Teacher’s notes (PDF, 3.92Mb)
Powerpoints and worksheets (ZIP, 1.26Mb)