Details and conditions: reading practice set 5

Visitors to Hart House may explore the main rooms on their own during opening hours. The upstairs study is different: entry is permitted only as part of a guided visit, even when its door is open. Guided visits start at the entrance desk, and a general admission ticket does not reserve a place on one. The courtyard is normally included in admission but closes during private events. Today’s notice lists a private event there from two until four. Visitors should check both the tour list and the courtyard notice before planning their route.

For this painting class, use the wide brush for the background wash and the fine brush for narrow details. Rinse whichever brush you are using before changing colors, even if the next color is darker. Swirl only the bristles in the rinse jar; keep the handles dry. A fresh sheet of practice paper is available for checking a mixed color, but testing it on paper does not replace rinsing between colors. At the end of class, leave both brushes on the marked cloth beside your work.

For Friday’s print exchange, bring two impressions of the same image. One will go into the exchange pool, and the other will remain on the display wall during the event. Write the image’s title and your name on the back of each backing sheet, not on the printed surface. You may choose any image you have made, but bringing two different images does not meet the pair requirement. Attach each print to its own backing before arriving.

The pattern room offers three ways to consult the designs. Paper copies may be taken away and kept. Rigid templates may be signed out, but each must be returned inside its labeled sleeve so the edges are protected and the design number remains attached. The master template stays at the desk; you may trace it there but may not borrow it, even if no other reader is waiting. Returning a paper copy does not count as returning a rigid template. Ask the attendant for tracing paper if the available copies are too small.

For the exhibit’s fictional parcel route, each label has three lines. The top line records the place and date of dispatch. The middle line records arrival at the transfer depot, and the bottom line records final delivery. A parcel need not reach the depot or its recipient on the day it was dispatched. One displayed label reads, from top to bottom, “North Quay, June 3,” “Hill Depot, June 5,” and “Pine Street, June 6.” The exhibit asks visitors to trace the journey using each line’s assigned role rather than treating the three dates as alternative departure dates.

The café’s handwritten board uses three marks. A box around a dish means its main portion is prepared and can be collected immediately, unless the name is also underlined. An underline means a finishing step is done after the order, adding ten minutes. A star means the dish is served only at a table, whatever other marks it has. Today, lentils are boxed only; vegetable pie is boxed and underlined; fruit is boxed and starred; soup is underlined only. Jo needs two different dishes to take away and can wait ten minutes for one of them, but the other must be available immediately.

Place each finished clay tile on a flat board and write its date on the card beside it. The lower rack slots are reserved for these boards; the upper hooks hold tools and must remain clear of tiles. A tile stays on its board until its surface leaves no mark when tested with the clean paper provided. A date card helps identify the piece, but reaching a particular date does not by itself release it from the rack.

After the costume fitting, return coats to the numbered hangers shown on their tags. Small accessories belong in bags bearing the same costume number, not in coat pockets. Anything damp goes directly to the attendant before storage; this applies to accessories as well as garments. The number connects the parts of a costume, but it does not cancel the damp-item rule. The attendant will arrange a suitable place for those pieces while the dry items are put away.

Borrowed sketching stools may be carried from one gallery to another. Set them where visitors can still pass, and never place one in a doorway, even during a brief pause. Keep the numbered tag attached while the stool is in use. When finished, return the stool to the entrance desk rather than leaving it in the last gallery. Staff check the number there before making it available to the next borrower.

Preordered meals on the excursion train are collected during the window printed on the receipt. Hot meals must be picked up at the carriage counter. A cold meal box may instead be delivered to a reserved seat if that seat number was supplied with the order. Keep the receipt until the meal is received. A seat reservation alone does not identify a meal order, and staff cannot deliver a hot meal under this arrangement.

This game allows one action on a turn. You may add one stone from your tray to an empty square, or move one of your stones already on the board to an adjacent empty square. You may not combine those actions. If you choose neither, you may pass. Scoring is checked after the action or pass, so a scoring opportunity does not permit a second move on the same turn.

For a play set in an imaginary court, Mara made a coat from several saved materials. Its broad front panels came from a plain curtain. She cut the collar from an unused corner of that curtain, then embroidered small leaves along its edge. The cuffs came from a worn jacket, and the silver clasp had once fastened a cape. Only the cotton lining was newly purchased. In her notebook, Mara recorded each part’s source separately from the decoration she added during construction.