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Chapters 1-2

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Nelson, Robert. Runner. Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Ebook.

• In Chapter 1 Charlie lives in Richmond, Melbourne, in 1919.

• The sky is dark and rain is about to fall when Charlie gets ready to go to school.

• Charlie’s neighbor, Cecil Redmond, jokes with Charlie.

• The man and his wife are like grandparents to Charlie and his brother.

• Charlie’s mother tells him to hurry to school and to sit in the front row of the classroom and pay attention.

• He tells her that he will, and he leaves.

• Charlie thinks about how cold it is.

• He and his family live in the slums and they are never warm in the winter.

• Some families burn the floors of their houses to keep warm.

• One day Charlie had been so cold that he plotted a course and ran...

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