HAR is a Houston real estate site where you can look for homes to buy or lease. I used it a lot when I was looking to buy a home. It’s actually really cool!

I want you to use the search feature and find three homes in your zip code: one home under 120,000, one home under 200,000, and one home over 200,000. Notice how the language changes between the different types of houses. If you found a foreclosure, a lot of times, they use the words “fixer-upper”, but that generally means that the house will be cheaper because it is not in good condition.

If you need help navigating the webpage, I can help you figure things out. 🙂

We read The Monsters’ Lair, which was really short, because it’s only one page (easy!) and looked at the descriptive language.

Then, we worked on Sell that Swamp – which can be found in BB. We used the following passage from Beowulf as guidance: