The poem contrasts a house, which is made of physical materials like brick, wood, and glass, with a home, which is defined by the love and family within it. A home includes brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers caring for each other through unselfish and kindly acts. It suggests that while a house is just a physical structure, a home is created by the loving relationships of those who live there.

1. A House, A Home
By : LORRAINE M. HALLI

2. What is a house?
It’s brick and stone
and wood that’s hard.
Some window glass
and perhaps a yard.
It’s eaves and chimneys
and tile floors
and stucco and roof
and lots of doors.
Yard =
Eaves =
Stucco =

3. Difficult Words
•Yard: a piece of land next to someone's
house, with grass and plants growing in it.
•Eaves: the edge of a roof
•Stucco: a type of plaster used for covering
walls and decorating ceilings.

4. Sectional Evaluation
•Q.1 What is said about house?
•Q.2 What is the meaning of eaves in the poem?

5. What is a home?
It’s loving and family
and doing for others.
It’s brothers and sisters
and fathers and mothers.
It’s unselfish acts
and kindly sharing
and showing your loved ones
you’re always caring
Unselfish =
kindly =

6. Difficult Words
•Unselfish: caring about or generous toward
others.
•Kindly: a sympathetic or generous nature.

7. Sectional Evaluation
•Q.1 What is home?
•Q.2 Who lives in the home?