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i’m a house with no windows, you’re the flowers on the front porch by miracleboysatori
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
Summary
Turning to the source of the voice, Ushijima finds the boy from the other day standing behind him again, an excited look on his face as he rocks back and forth on his feet, “Tendou Satori. Do you always sneak up on people?”
Tendou laughs, the small frame of his body shaking with the force of it. Ushijima isn’t sure what’s so funny, he meant it as a legitimate question. Admittedly, though, Tendou’s laugh, while loud and boisterous, is somehow comforting. Once he’s calmed down, Tendou shakes his head in response, but instead of answering he poses his own question, “So you’re by yourself again today? Don’t you have friends?”
Unoffended by the question, as blunt as it is, Ushijima ponders on it for a moment before giving a small shrug, “I like playing alone. The other kids usually get bored of me.”
(a fic focusing on ushiten’s development from childhood through adulthood that no one really asked for but I felt an extremely strong urge to write anyway)
Home Is a Window
A family learns what home really means, as they leave one beloved residence and make a new home in another.
Home can be many things—a window, a doorway, a rug…or a hug. At home, everything always feels the same: comfortable and safe.
But sometimes things change, and a home must be left behind.
Follow a family as they move out of their beloved, familiar house and learn that th A family learns what home really means, as they leave one beloved residence and make a new home in another.
Home can be many things—a window, a doorway, a rug…or a hug. At home, everything always feels the same: comfortable and safe.
But sometimes things change, and a home must be left behind.
Follow a family as they move out of their beloved, familiar house and learn that they can bring everything they love about their old home to the new one, because they still have each other. This heartfelt picture book by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard is richly illustrated by former Pixar animator Chris Sasaki. . more
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What an appropriate read for our family’s current situation. Moving away from the only home my children have ever known won’t be as easy as it sounds. Sooo many memories are made in a house. But in this book, a young girl celebrates all of the lovely things that make up a home that are NOT dependent on a single location. For example, “Home is a table with something good and the people gathered there. Home is washing, rinsing, and drying, and whenever a dish gets broken, someone to help you sweep What an appropriate read for our family’s current situation. Moving away from the only home my children have ever known won’t be as easy as it sounds. Sooo many memories are made in a house. But in this book, a young girl celebrates all of the lovely things that make up a home that are NOT dependent on a single location. For example, “Home is a table with something good and the people gathered there. Home is washing, rinsing, and drying, and whenever a dish gets broken, someone to help you sweep.” I love it! The artwork for this book was created using digital tools.
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Richie’s Picks: HOME IS A WINDOW by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard and Chris Sasaki, ill., Holiday House/Neal Porter, April 2019, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-8234-4156-3
“When I’m home everything seems to be right”
—Lennon/McCartney, “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964)
“Home is washing, rinsing, and drying,
and whenever a dish gets broken, someone to help you sweep.
Home is one more hide-and-seek before bath,
bubbles if you are lucky,
and a blanket of your own — mostly.
Home is Ms. Vera’s lamplight shared with you,
a book be Richie’s Picks: HOME IS A WINDOW by Stephanie Parsley Ledyard and Chris Sasaki, ill., Holiday House/Neal Porter, April 2019, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-8234-4156-3
“When I’m home everything seems to be right”
—Lennon/McCartney, “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964)
“Home is washing, rinsing, and drying,
and whenever a dish gets broken, someone to help you sweep.
Home is one more hide-and-seek before bath,
bubbles if you are lucky,
and a blanket of your own — mostly.
Home is Ms. Vera’s lamplight shared with you,
a book before you fall asleep,
and a kiss afterward.
Home is what feels the same each day
and sometimes what is new.”
HOME IS A WINDOW is an inspiring, poetic picture book about the place we live. It involves a family that is leaving one home behind and moving to a new one. It’s a great resource for children who are experiencing such a transition.
But the feelings conjured up by this meditation upon home-ness make it much, much more than a useful book for kids who are faced with changing residences.
Home is the physical space that we share with other people, usually family members, and possibly some pets. It’s the place where we keep our stuff and mostly know where everything is. One hopes that, for every child, it is a safe, happy, peaceful, and healthy space, one’s refuge from the world out there. It’s the place where we get our mail and welcome extended family and friends. Home may extend to a front porch and a backyard, maybe with a swing or a tree to climb. It’s the backdrop for many of our daily routines, and the primary setting for the story that is our life.
HOME IS A WINDOW is a book that can be readily shared with preschoolers right up through third- and fourth-graders. At the younger end, it will inspire enthusiastic circle time discussions of home. For older kids, it will serve as an inspiring prompt in writing about their home lives and moves they’ve experienced.
Reading it reminded me how fortunate I am to have a home that is all that a home should be. It also reminds me that far too many are not so lucky.
The interaction of text and pictures here is perfect. Chris Sasaki’s illustrations are warm and joyful. Given the poetry of the text, the illustrations necessarily take the lead in conveying the story arc of a girl who, with her family, moves to a new home.
Form 10 Unit 2 Houses and Homes (additional)
Some additional material to Form 10 Unit 2 Houses and Homes
Grammar: revision of used to
Speaking: interior and exterior of homes of the past
1. Add two more words to the list. What type of house do you live in?
terraced mansion semi-detached studio detached cottage castle bungalow … …
(suggested answer: flat, villa, etc)
2. Match the opposites. Which adjectives best describe your house?
| modern | a expensive |
| small | b spacious |
| plain | c decorated |
| cheap | d traditional |
| attractive | e ugly |
3. List the words under the headings. Use them to talk about your house.
| Rooms | Features: Indoor/ Outdoor | Furniture/ Appliances/Others |
• attic • living room • kitchen • garden • rug • floor • fence • pillows • windows • porch • balcony • cushions • hall • fireplace • brick walls • lamp • bedroom • dining room • four-poster beds • cupboard• chest of drawers • carpet• wardrobe • mirror • fridge • cooker • towels • shower• staircase • garage • chimney
4. Reading
a. Look at the headings and the pictures. What are the texts about? Which country are these houses in?
b. Listen to the recording.
c. Read the texts. Fill in the missing words to make the sentences complete.
Victorian houses
The early Victorians liked large houses with plenty of decoration. Later in the Victorian period, houses were simple 0) and plain. Wealthy people used to live 1) ….. large detached houses with lots of rooms and expensive furniture.
Servants used to live 2)…. the top floor of the house or the attic. The exterior of the house 3) …. a work of art with a sleep tiled roof, tall chimney pots and large bay windows 4)…. stained glass. Sometimes they had a front porch (портик; крытая галерея, крыльцо) and steps up to the front door. Working people used to live in terraced brick houses with a simple exterior. Those houses were small with two or four rooms. 5)……..was no electricity no water and no toilet.
*bay window — a curved area of a room or building that sticks out (выделяется) from the rest of the building
Elizabethan houses
Elizabethan manor houses often had an E- shape to show respect for 6) …. queen. They had brick walls with strong wooden frames. The houses were spacious and comfortable with a large hall, a dining room and 7) ….. bedrooms.
The furniture was big and elaborate and four-poster beds were very popular.
Many people used to have servants. 8)…. used to live in rooms in the attic.
6. Preparing to speak: underline the words that describe interior and exterior and special features of the houses so that to use them in your future description.
Answer Key:
exterior : steep tiled roof/tall chimney pots/bаy windows/front porch / steps to the front door/brick walls/wooden
frames/E-shape
interior: lots of rooms / expensive furniture / large hall / dining room / bedrooms / four-poster beds/attic
special features : simple /plain / large detached houses /stained glass / terraced brick houses/small/toilet/manor
houses / spacious / comfortable
7. Speaking
Suggested Answer Key
Victorians had large, detached houses with many rooms and expensive furniture. On the outside, they had steep tiled roofs, tall chimney pots and large bay windows. Sometimes, they had front porches and steps up to the front door.
Elizabethan houses had brick walls with wooden frames. They had many comfortable rooms. The rooms had big furniture, and bedrooms sometimes had four-poster beds.
8*. Listening
There’s a very interesting idiom in connection with Elizabethan style in architecture. It’s about cats and dogs. Can you guess which one?
Mary Evans Picture Library
«It’s raining cat’s and dogs» An interesting phrase, isn’t it?
The phrase isn’t related to the well-known antipathy between dogs and cats, which is exemplified in the phrase ‘fight like cat and dog’. Nor is the phrase in any sense literal, i.e. it doesn’t record an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky. Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, do occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather. Such involuntary flight must also happen to dogs or cats from time to time, but there’s no record of the events causing this phrase to be coined. No English meteorological records inform about this.
It has been suggested that cats and dogs were washed from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale which became very popular with the e-mail message «Life in the 1500s», which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Here’s the relevant part of that:
I’ll describe their houses a little. You’ve heard of thatch roofs (соломенная крыша), well that’s all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, «it’s raining cats and dogs.»
Do you believe it?
This is nonsense of course. In order to believe this tale we would have to accept that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn’t. Even accepting that bizarre idea, for dogs to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch — hardly the place an animal would head for as shelter in bad weather.
(Adapted from: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html)
PS: One supposed origin is that the phrase derives from mythology. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms, and sailors associated them with rain. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars — cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind. Well, some evidence would be nice. There doesn’t appear to be any to support this notion.
8. Test (reflection). Which houses represent Victorian and which Elizabethan architectural styles?
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2) http://www.phrases.org.uk
3) Pictures from the Internet
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