Pre-reading Task

Pre reading task.

The questions can be answered by going to the following link.

1.What year is runner set in?

2.What suburb is it set in?

3.What was the suburb sometimes called? Why do you think this might have been?

4.How old is Charlie Feehan?

5.Define; hardship

6.‘The streets of Richmond were like the pages in a book. They told a story...This story was full of hardship’… What does this quote tell us about Richmond at the time?

7.Who is Squizzy Taylor and was he a real person?

8.Read family life and growing up in ‘Life in Victoria – early 20^th centaury’. List some facts about what family life was like.

9.What was the life expectancy of people in the time the novel is set?

10.What could somebody’s housing tell us about their social status?

11. Look at the picture below and write about what you see and what it could mean. (rich vs poor)

12. Having learnt all this, what do you think the text is going to be about