{"id":3243,"date":"2015-12-13T19:31:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2014-12-22T19:31:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:31:27","slug":"year-9-christmas-history-ebeneezer-scrooge-hero-or-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/industrial-revolution\/year-9-christmas-history-ebeneezer-scrooge-hero-or-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 9 Christmas History: Ebeneezer Scrooge: Hero or Villain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nYr9 Lesson 2: Ebeneezer Scrooge: Hero or Villain?<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Teacher Support Sheet\u00a0<\/a>
\n<\/strong>In this activity, students learn about, then are encouraged to challenge, the traditional interpretation of the Dickens Classic “A Christmas Carol”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yr9 Lesson 2: Ebeneezer Scrooge: Hero or Villain?\u00a0|\u00a0Teacher Support Sheet\u00a0 In this activity, students learn about, then are encouraged to challenge, the traditional interpretation of the Dickens Classic “A Christmas Carol”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrial-revolution"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1574,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/scroggie-scrooge-was-not-so-tight-after-all-find-historians\/","url_meta":{"origin":3243,"position":0},"title":"Scroggie Scrooge was not so tight after all, find historians","author":"russeltarr","date":"December 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"BAH humbug no more. 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